A Remarkable Influence

I would have to say that the one person who has helped put me on this path to becoming an educator would be my mom. She has been a Kindergarten teacher as well as a second grade teacher. She loves kids and definitely has a passion for teaching. I've watched her and visited her classrooms throughout the years and seeing how happy children and teaching makes her, makes me realize that you really can find a career that interests you that you love doing. I always use my mom as examples when I'm talking about teaching or how I could do things that work for her and her age group. She's helped me tremendously with my daycare center and is always giving me tips and ideas on how to make things better and more fun for the children. She's VERY good at getting children to do things while having fun so they do not dread doing their work. She's all about making it fun for them and gets a pretty good response in return. I guess the best way I can pay forward her inspiration in my career is to continue talking about her and using her in examples and taking her advice as to what she does that works best and makes positive impacts with her students. She can probably see her "ways" through me and my teachings and know that some of the things I do came from her. My physical classroom can also pay tribute by having some of the things up that she found useful in her everyday teachings. Though I will just go as far as Pre-K, there are certain things I can have in our classrooms that can help the kids get prepared for Kindergarten. My mom knows all about what they need to know or should know and I can build off of that to incorporate some of her ideas to surround the classrooms to make them the richest learning environment needed to be successful. I guess I'm very fortunate to have such a great role model who can help lead and guide me on the right path to having successful teaching ways and tools needed to working with children. :)