I know everyone's got different reasons for teaching...or at least everyone in my education classes do, teehee. What are your reasons for wanting to teach?
The first time I thought I wanted to be a teacher was in the second grade, when my teacher took me into the teacher's lounge during lunchtime and I saw all the teachers sitting around tables just like us students outside....lunchtime was my favorite time of the day back then, and I thought, "if my job let me still had a lunchtime like this, then I want to be a teacher!"
Of course, later on I realized that many jobs have lunch lounges...and I went through a lot of other ideas of what I wanted to be, architect, director, writer, copy editor, psychologist, and then I settled back towards teaching. I had been a tutor for my four younger siblings and took personal joy in helping friends understand scoolwork, it seemed that it was just something I was meant to do. My science teachers has always been some of my favorites, so I at first wanted to teach science. I held on tentatively to this idea until I got to college....
I hate lab classes. To major in science at the University of the Virgin Islands is to spend every Friday and Saturday morning from 9-12 for 4 years in a lab. I can't sit still for one hour let alone 3....I'm just too energetic for that. Plus Thursday and Friday nights are party nights on this island! I don't wanna have to be up at 9 the morning after a party! lol
But, since I'd always loved reading, and writing, and my 12th grade literature teacher had reformed my veiw of literature, and my writing instructor had revolutionized my writing, I decided to focus on an English major. I got offered a job at the Writing Center and it just further solidifies the fact that I like to help students understand and learn...I love to hear them go "ooooh" when they finally get something. It's wonderful...I started taking Education courses so that I can get certified to teach upon graduation, and I look forward to that year every day...