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I was 5 years old wen 9/11 occurred and watch/experienced the changes that happened to our country prior. As a result of this tragedy my teachers for the remainder of my life were required to discuss and educate this event with us as young children, as well as adults. I experienced the changes first hand when it came to airport security and traveling.

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If anything, I think society and media has been discouraging the teaching career for my generation. With school shootings, the salary, and new laws and curriculum teaching has become a career that people in my time are avoiding. I think that becoming a teacher is respectable but you have to be passionate and motivated to actually persevere and flourish in the classroom.

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I am a 22 year old female. I identify with the pronouns she/her

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My mother is a Special Education teacher and my father owns his own company. I grew up with one older brother who is a forester in Humboldt County. My family is very close with eachother and have supported me in everything I have chosen to do with my life. My mother is a main influence with me becoming a teacher. I spent hours helping in her classroom and in her friends classrooms as well.

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I decided to become a teacher when I was 17 years old. My professors and classes at Chico State influenced me to pursue my Masters. I worked alongside a professor of Physics during my time there and he introduced me to the research and studies that still needed to be done in the field of science and mathematics. Chico State also encouraged and supported other passions of mine including traveling. My sophmore year I studied abroad in Spain and was able to teach English in an Elementary school and High school for 5 months.

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I still maintain a friendship with two of my best friends from High School who are also pursuing a teaching career. We have supported each other through schooling and even studied abroad together and taught in the same schools. They each played a big role in my continuation to a Master's degree.

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When I was 17 I decided to leave High School for 3 months and volunteer in an orphanage in India.   I volunteered through the help of my great aunt, Yani, who was a teacher and the founder of an organization call ASTI (American Service to India). While in India I taught English and Math in 2nd and 3rd grades. This was the pivotal moment when I decided to become a teacher.

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My mother's job as a teacher also effected and influenced me as a teenager. I saw the way a classroom was run and the way she cared so much about her job and it made me desire the same type of passion for my work. I originally thought that I wanted to become a nurse. I quickly realized that blood and wounds were not my favorite thing in life and so, when I was 18, my mother encouraged me to volunteer in my high schools special education classroom. This further influenced me to enter into the teaching world.

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I grew up in the small town of Truckee, CA. my families home was located in the woods not near other homes. We lived on a private road so my neighborhood was only made up of my family and our close family friends.

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I was lucky enough to grow up in a family that has annual reunions and is constantly in touch with each other. I consider my second cousins to be my first and my great aunts and uncles to be my second set of grandparents. My family is very large and very involved in each others daily life. Along with this closeness comes support and love. Each of my extend family members have supported and followed along with my travels, volunteer work and education. During this program I am also living with my father's cousins, who I consider to be my Aunt and Uncle. They have been a big support system for me sofar in this program

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My mother's side of the family

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In many ways the progression of technology in everyday life has effected our generation. I grew up in the transitional period were cell phones became popular and the use of computer technology was encouraged and taught. Now, we interact and use technology in our everyday lives. The classroom today is much more technologically advanced than it was at any point in my childhood.