Essay - Secondary Education Admission Essay Having a Bachelor's Degree in Business...

Secondary Education

Admission Essay

Having a b*****chelor's degree in Business Management provided me with a career and a living, but it did not provide me ***** ***** calling or a passion. For as long as I can remember I have loved children, and ever since my children started school I ***** worked as a paraprofessional in both standard and special education classes so I can be close to them and other children who need and can use what ***** have ***** offer ***** the way of help, guidance, and care. For more than five years I ***** had students who I have worked with tell me that ********** ***** gotten so*****thing positive from the help that I have ***** to *****m, and this rewards me in a way ***** the business world was n***** able to do. As a ca*****cer survivor who has won the battle against the disease I feel as though I have a second chance, and I should take that chance and run with it, doing ***** ***** have al*****s wanted to do - *****come a teacher.

I feel that my experience ***** a paraprofessional in the classroom has given me a lot of insight into what it ********** to be a teacher and to do the job each and every day without fail, giving ***** *****st to the students. The work I ***** done is not ***** sa*****, of course, ***** it ***** *****d me with a ***** of experience and many opportunities to help *****. I want to expand on those opportunities so that I can provide more guidance and nurturing to more students in a bigger way. ***** am a ***** per*****n by nature, and I am also a ***** and patient person. ***** know that these characteristics will help me to be a good *****, to work ***** students who are troubled, and to have patience with those ***** who are either rebellious or who are simply r**********g out for *****, as well as those students ***** might be struggling and getting frustrated with the material.

***** positive outlook on life can show the students who I will teach ***** day that there is always something good in ***** and that they, too, can make a difference and ***** an enjoyable life ahead of them even if they sometimes find ********** in d*****ficult circumstances. While they might ***** always be able to control what happens to them in their lives they can control what they do about what ***** to them and how ***** react to it. *****y will ***** be able to see through having me as a teacher ***** they have someone in their lives who ********** about ***** and who is will*****g ***** listen to them. Often this can ***** a large difference in a child's life, and I ***** *****d ***** first-hand with some of the ***** that I have had the pleasure ***** work*****g with as a paraprofessional.

I have chosen this institution specifically because I believe it