I have wanted to be a teacher for as long as I can remember. It started with my love for working with kids at day camps and summer camps. From there I realized just how amazing it was to help someone learn and to reach that "ah-ha!" moment and I knew that was it. I was going to be the teacher that helped every student reach those moments. Getting to the Teacher Education Program has been a long journey. I slowly worked towards it keeping time to do the things I love, spending time with family and friends and travelling. I took a couple classes at a time and worked as a server from 2004 until gaining my Bachelor of Arts in 2012. During this time I followed my passion for visual arts through an extended minor in Visual Arts. I love photography and painting. Being so busy with school and work it was the perfect way to keep up with my hobby. I thought about being an art teacher for a while but I really wanted to focus more on teaching areas where students might struggle. Part of the reason for wanting to be a teacher was to have a career where I could help people, I do not think anything else could be as rewarding.
Throughout my time at University I took some time off and went to study at the University of the Nations and completed a Discipleship Training School through Youth With a Mission. This was an amazing experience that combined my love for travel and my want to help others through a Christian missions organization. I got to attend the school in Australia where we travelled around and visited different Christian schools and youth groups. I also had the opportunity to travel to Malaysia to work in an orphanage for a couple of weeks and to be involved is some of their youth organizations as well. This experience just further solidified my decision to become a teacher.
Since the summer of 2013 I have been attending the Teacher Education Program at the University of the Fraser Valley. Being accepted into the program was an amazing accomplishment. It is the final step, or shall I say leap, on my journey to becoming a teacher. The courses, professors, fellow Teppers, students, and my Faculty Mentor and Teacher Mentor have and will teach me so much along the way. Many parts of the journey will be stressful and terrifying, exhausting and exhilarating. I be be stretched and challenged and hopefully come out at the end a wonderful teacher.
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