Becoming a teacher is an amazing and challenging profession I am looking forward to experience. Currently, I am in my eighth semester of the language teaching program at Universidad Surcolombiana. When I look backward I look myself as the high school students who didn't want to become a teacher in the near future. But, I also look at my self like someone who loves children and teach them. I know it sounds a little bit contradictory.
The main reason for not becoming a teacher was simply due to the issue that many teachers are struggling nowadays; that society doesn't appraise them as they deserve it. Why I change my mind? Simply because at University I realize that as a future teacher I can change that since teachers need to be considered as the most essential in society.
As I already said, I love children and teach them. For that reason, I have always taught my cousins. The first experience teaching was when I was 12 years old with my cousin Jhon. I taught him to read and to do some math operations. But, my cousins were not the only one that I used to teach, there was also a high school friend. I used to teach him English since he always was asking me to give classes to him because he considered me the best student in the media Tecnica classroom. I think that I was the best English student thank to my father because when he listen to someone saying that English will open many doors for me in the future. When he listened that, he immediately enrolled me in an Institute when I was 12 years old.
At English Now Institute my love for English flourished since I had the best English teachers. They used to teach me English with didactic activities such as songs and role-plays. Also, they used some outdoor activities such as camping and there we only could speak in English. For that reason, I decided to enter the media Tecnica of the school in the tenth grade. Two years later, I was accepted at University in the language teaching program. There, I started my journey to becoming an English teacher and it has been the best choice I took in my life because I have enjoyed every single moment. One important issue that I have learned is that English should be taught from an early age in order to achieve better results. From my experience, learning English is better to learn it since we are children. If my father had enrolled me from an early age, I would have better results than I had at the ending of my high school.
Currently, my future plans are to keep growing in my profession and to teach different people all around the world, not only to teach children but also to young and old people because everybody deserves the opportunity to learn English no matter their social status. I want to keep working as an English teacher, but I don't want to be only a teacher in a school, I want to be a teacher that contribute to significant changes in society.
