MY FUTURE JOB (ESTIBALIZ OJINAGA)
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- Created on Wednesday, 14 September 2016 11:29
- Written by basquecountry
Since I was little I have been totally sure that when I finish my studies I will work as a teacher. When I was 5-6 years old and I was at school I like so much going there. Every day I learnt new things, and because of this I started to think about how fantastic it could be being a teacher. During primary school I had some doubts about being veterinarian, but finally as always I decided that I wanted to work as a teacher in the future.
In secondary school I realized that my ideas were clear. The teachers suggested to us a new way to work: work in groups. At the beginning I didn´t like it, because I thought that my marks could get worse. Apart from that it seemed that my peers made use of my work, and in my opinion it was a waste of time. After a few months, the situation changed. I tried to change my ideas, as it was necessary to get better results. I started helping my peers understanding the theory that teachers had explained. I realized that every times they understood it I felt very well, so maybe I wasn’t wrong and teaching would be my work. At the last course of secondary school, I concluded that teaching is an amazing job to help people prepare for the future and also in their daily lives.
Last summer I have worked as a monitor with Sahrawi children. I taught them a lot of things, but during this week, they weren’t the only ones who learned something. Because of them I learnt to be more responsible, appreciate more what I have and enjoy every moments. To my mind, all of them are necessary things that we should remember always.
After having the experience working as a monitor, I decided that firstly I would like to study for early childhood education and then I will specialize in social education. A lot of people told me that working with children that have problems or diseases is not easy and that sometimes is hard. Although I know that this is true, I give more importance to the happiness that probably I will feel helping to these children having a normal or better childhood.
If you ask me I think that the school in where I am give me some facilities that could help me getting my goal.
On one hand, I want to point out that I have some subjects which teach me things that could be essential in our life, for example; philosophy. I never had learned philosophy until this year, and if I have to say what subject teach me more I will choose it. Philosophy has helped me to clarify my ideas, make decisions and see the life in a different way. I think that it could help me in my future job because children need someone that teach them in addition of theory, how to react in different situations. Often the teachers only focus on explaining the maximum possible theory. They forget that teaching consist also in guiding their students since they are small, because this is the basis of many of the decisions that they will make. Even though this year I don’t have it in my curriculum, I know that one subject related with philosophy can help me too: psychology. It could be helpful in order to understand my future students, because their environment, their families and personality will be completely different.
On the other hand, other subjects that could help me on teaching are for example, English, German, Basque and Spanish. In order to teach, having some appropriate knowledge like knowing different idioms, may be advantageous. For example, if you know English or German you have the possibility of working in a country that is not yours. What’s more, knowing idioms could help us getting a job more easily. Apart from that, there are more subjects which are essential, like mathematics or economy. Learn them gives you the possibility to be able to teach other subjects areas, but this happens with all of the subjects that I have.All of them are helpful for me, however some subjects are not taught on early childhood education.
Finally, I would like to say that although many of these already named subjects are useful, to my mind; another type of courses could be helpful. For example, pedagogy. I know that this is one subject that we study in our career, but learning a little of pedagogy could be interesting. In this way, maybe I will have the necessary knowledge and skills to understand the development of the children. Furthermore, have this subject, could help me or students in general, knowing how to react with a child who has problems or diseases. Even though it is not possible, I would like to start doing practices with children in high school. I know that is difficult to have practices for all the jobs but probably it would be fantastic.