English Composition Essay on Choosing a Career in Teaching

This essay explores a student's aspiration to become a teacher, highlighting the personal qualities and motivations behind this career choice. The author outlines their reasons for choosing teaching, emphasizing traits like accountability, caring, and trustworthiness. The essay also reflects on the importance of understanding teaching practices and the assumptions involved in the teaching process. The author draws inspiration from teachers who have served as role models, shaping their understanding of effective teaching skills. The essay concludes with a reaffirmation of teaching as a professional and fulfilling career path, driven by a desire to impact society through education. Desklib offers similar essays and study tools for students.

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The career I hope to follow.
Generally, each person anticipates for a certain career in future. This means that human beings
hopes to be associated with a certain career that aids in accomplishing our goals. Have you ever
tried to dream about a certain career in your life? Well, the same question applies to me. I have
more than four options to follow as my career. I have four careers which are teaching, writing,
cinematography and politics. Out of these four careers I have to choose the one which is
suitable to me.
To me my choice of career I hope to follow is teaching. I have to choose teaching as my career
to follow due to some reasons. In the essay I have outlined the reasons for choosing the career.
Basically, I think teaching as a career works on my side since I am always accountable, caring
and trustworthy. These are some of the qualifications each teacher should have (Korhonen &
Törmä, 2016). On top of this, I am always a hardworking individual both in school and also in
other co-curricular activities. Since I was in primary level I aspired to be a teacher and I have
been dreaming one day I will be teaching in some of our schools. I have been performing well in
class and I am anticipating to join teacher training institution which will help me in achieving my
goals as a teacher.
As a teacher I should be aware on the teaching practices used when in school. This is a big issue
which I need to know in the career I hope to follow. The main concept I should know is what is
involved in teaching process (Norton, 2018). Well, this induces assumptions which I need to
have before becoming a teacher. In general, it will be easy for me to be a teacher and obtain a job
of teaching because the entire world will always need teachers for teaching students. There is a
lot of work for teachers and society needs teachers to train children to acquire their future goals.
In school teachers also do a lot of work starting from preparing lessons every day, preparing tests

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and grading students. I am determined to do all these once I will be a teacher. I have been
connected with a number of people who have been impacting my career goal. Through my
school life, I have been interacting with teachers in school and they have been encouraging me to
work hard so that in future I can help society. My class teacher has been a role model and I have
been copying some teaching skills from him and hope this will help me in my teaching career
(Tomšik, 2016).
In conclusion, teaching is the most professional which I have been dreaming to follow in the
future (Byron & Thatcher, 2016). My teachers in school have been encouraging me to work hard
in academics and that's what I believe will make me prosper in my career as a teacher.

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References
Byron, K., & Thatcher, S. M. (2016). Editors’ comments: “What I know now that I wish I knew
then”—Teaching theory and theory building, 6(45), 134-178.
Korhonen, V., & Törmä, S. (2016). Engagement with a teaching career–how a group of Finnish
university teachers experience teacher identity and professional growth. Journal of
Further and Higher Education, 40(1), 65-82.
Norton, L. (2018). Action research in teaching and learning: A practical guide to conducting
pedagogical research in universities, 5th edition. Oxford University Publish.
Tomšik, R. (2016). Choosing teaching as a career: Importance of the type of motivation in career
choices. Tem Journal, 5(3), 396-400.