Sunday, February 12, 2017

About Me and Why I Want to Become a Teacher

Hello everyone. My name is Alex Walker and I am a mother of two boys.  I am also going to school to become a teacher!  I hope to eventually find my way into a kindergarten classroom in the Johnson County area, but for now I have one semester left of school ahead of me before I can become a full fledged teacher and find a school to call my own.

I hope you enjoy my blog as much as I enjoy writing it, and I hope that you learn something from it.  If nothing else you will learn how crazy I am and how much of a mess my life really is, but who doesn't like a little chaos in their life?

Oh yah, I'm supposed to tell you why I want to be a teacher as well.  Well, the thing is I have always wanted to be a teacher, ever since I was little.  My mother has always told me that teachers don't make much and I should set my sights higher, but that never stopped me from loving the educational system and wanting to become a teacher.  I will admit I got sidetracked for a few years after my freshman year of college didn't go so well, but I eventually made it back on track and I get to finish following my dreams! How cool is that?  I was happily married for two years before I became pregnant with my first son and once I did I had to start thinking about how I was going to support my family and my child.  My husband's and my income at that time was not enough for us to live on and put a child into daycare, so something had to give.  My mother the amazing woman that she is offered me free childcare if and only if I returned to school and found a new part-time job for income.  I agreed to her terms and so began my journey back to becoming a teacher.  Of course a few things have changed since I originally wanted to become a teacher.  I no longer want to teach high school math, but now what I really want to do is heard cats in a kindergarten room.

I love small children, which is surpising because before I had a small child of my own I would not have been caught within ten feet of a small child.  I can't believe how much I have changed, but my love for the educational system has not.  I really want to be back in a classroom, only not being taught, but the one teaching this time around, and I feel that nothing can stop me or derail my plans this time.  I am fully focused on becoming what I once set out to be.  A Teacher.


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