As a future teacher I have many goals. Among these are goals I have set for myself as a teacher, goals I have set for my students as learners and goals I have set for my professional future.
Goals I have set for myself as a teacher:
- I aspire to recognize each student as an individual.
- I will continue to better my students through life long learning.
- I hope to meet each child's individual needs through teaching with a variety of instructional styles.
- I will evaluate my students often to be assure they are learning at their personal instructional level.
- I aim to teach a well rounded curriculum with a strong emphasis in technology integration.
Goals I have set for my students as learners:
- I hope to instill a love for learning and exploration of knowledge.
- I desire to create an atmosphere that involves inquiry based discoveries with open, talk intensive, reflections.
- I will create an environment that encourages positive self-talk and reflective practices of student work.
Goals I have set for my professional future:
- I will continue to grow as an educator by further advancing my knowledge in pertinent subject matters.
- I plan on pursuing a career in education, sampling a variety of grade levels.
- I will return to school to obtain my doctoral degree in School Psychology so that I may work with schools to better them in many ways.
- I plan on practicing as School Psychologist within public elementary schools working with students, classes as a whole, teachers, administrators and parents and other caregivers of students.
- Throughout my work as a Psychologist, I feel it is important that I continue to experience time in the classroom, therefor I plan on returning to teaching as I feel led or as I am needed.