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When I started school, I had amazing teachers. Ones who would encourage me and push me to do great things. However, sometime after first grade, my teachers began to try and mold me into the “perfect student.” All through out elementary and middle school, I was placed in advanced classes and worked to compete against my classmates. This ruined the image of school in my head and how I was able to succeed through it. By the time I got to high school, I was so tired pushing myself and jumping through hoops, that I was so burnt out. It made me realize that I wanted to help students and create a better balance between an encouraging and helpful teacher and someone who wants you to be “perfect.” 

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Going into college, my plan was to become a high school teacher. This was so I could help students who had been burnt out like me and get them through the home stretch. For my major I had to take Introduction to Education and we had to shadow at a school for credit. I decided to go back to my old elementary school and realized how much I loved working with elementary students and how I can start helping at a young age instead of solving a festering problem later on in life. 

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After graduating college, I hope to be in a classroom teaching my own group of students. I want to help them find that balance of succession and love of school so they can be the best student they can. I hope to stay here in Arkansas, but would love to be with any class I can. 