Education and Teacher Certification

I am a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history . I am deeply committed to the importance of a liberal arts education , and am fortunate to have been taught by a handful of truly qualified teachers and professors . I understand that teaching has varied responsibilities that go well beyond offering facts to a classroom of pupils . I understand that students have varied needs , and that it is my job as a teacher , should I be granted the honorable opportunity to assume such as position , to be as flexible as my

students are diverse

My goal is to become a high school social studies teacher . It is important for me to be as precise as possible in regard to the subject matter in which I am looking to teach . At the high school age , students are in an interesting stage of their educational development . Their knowledge and understanding is becoming more subjective . It is at this age , roughly from thirteen to eighteen years old , that students will begin imagining their lives beyond their youth . They will begin considering their future endeavors and responsibilities . They will also begin developing their long-term passions

I do not expect that each student I teach will go forward , studying history or political science at the undergraduate level . However , I do anticipate that the majority of my students will at the very least leave my classroom with a clear understanding of the world outside their immediate surroundings . I anticipate that my students will be informed citizens , and that they will have respect for the global community

I recognize the responsibility of teachers to take on more than just the most basic education of their students , the absolute minimum for which they are responsible . It is a teacher 's responsibility , their absolute duty if they wish to leave any lasting impression on their students , to work as hard as possible , to reach out to students and to make them passionate about the subject matter . Granted , teachers are overworked and spread far too thin , but it is important for an educator to put forth the utmost effort in to positively influence students . After all , more important than teaching a fixed curriculum is developing within the student a true love of learning . A philosophy , if you will

I am specifically interested in teaching history , as this is my passion and was my area of concentrated study as an undergraduate . History is particularly interesting because it encompasses many aspects of the learned world . It encompasses geography , politics , ethics , science literature and even business . In studying a half-century a student of history can learn about the rise of the and fall of the stock market evolution , laissez faire government , the decadent and modernist periods of literature , women 's suffrage , industrialization , an economic depression and two great world wars . This , of course , is only in the United States and Western Europe

I am passionate about history , and I am a firm believer that it takes passion in an area...