This Profile and What it is all About

I created this profile as part of an education class I'm taking this semester. The objective is to create a profile about my views on teaching, the styles I plan to use when I teach and my progress through the process of becoming a teacher and how I develop as a teacher once I am licensed. To document all of this I will be posting on a bi-weekly to monthly basis on what classes I am taking to get to my teaching licensor and and bumps in the road during my process. I also wanted to keep this more as a journal of thoughts so that I can look back and see how I have developed personally not just professionally.

So far these are my plans for my future in teaching.

I would like to work in Secondary Education(high school) teaching both Art and English. I originally wanted to teach Middle School because I remember how difficult that time was for me and I wanted to help out some of the students who may feel now the way I did then. However, that is a very specific age group and it is less likely that I will find a job by just teaching in that specific age group so after discussing the matter with my Grandmother, a teacher of many years, she suggested Secondary Education which has more job availability and if I was so inclined, would allow me to teach Middle School if I couldn't handle High School.

I want to teach in Western Massachusetts so that is where I plan to attend the rest of my college experience. I am transferring to UMass-Amherst this coming fall.