A personal statement trying to express what is at the heart of my life as a future teacher.  Considering the following questions: 

Why do I want to become a teacher? What do I stand for as a student teacher?  What do I want my legacy as a teacher to be? What can I do to keep track of myself, to “remember” my own heart? When did you first realize that you wanted to be a teacher? What were the circumstances of this realization? How close are you to those feelings today?
 

I want to become a teacher because I like to teach when I am teaching in the classroom, I feel happy. I feel a beautiful emotion and I want that my students learn a lot, I want that they understand and feel comfortable in the class. I love to teach English, I think that teaching is the best way for to learn, teaching is the way where the students can be good persons and in the future, they will be good professionals.

I am a guide to students, I am a tutor, I help them to build their knowledge and I give them all the tool for to learn English but I think that all the teachers are as a second father or mother where not only teach knowledge but they also, we help them with some advice for to resolve some typical problems in their life. We help students to stay motivated so that they want to learn for themselves, so that one day, they will become professional persons.

I want that my legacy teaches to the students that they not only have to study for to take a good job, but also, how far the studies can improve their lives, and how the knowledge that they acquired can help them in the future.

I can do a letter where I can write why I want to teach, why I like to teach, why I choose to be a teacher and Why my students are the most important when I am teaching in the classroom and I can put the letter in the mirror and when I get up every day, I will remember why I should not lose me out sight of myself and also to "remember" my own heart.

I realized when I gave the first class, I remember that I was nervous and I thought that the class could be a disaster, I prepared all that I needed, but I felt that it wasn't enough, I remember that the teacher introduced me and then I started the class when I saw all the students, that paid attention in all the class and I saw their face and I said I loved to teach, I felt that I had a wonderful feeling in my heart, I was happy and I knew that I had to be best for me and for my students and now, I'm study more and more every day because I love to teach and I want to give them the best of me.

 I remember when I began to study in the university, I didn't know what I wanted and I only choose English teacher, over time, I thought what I really wanted because I knew that I was not good in English and I didn't have good memory for to remember all but I never gave up all it, I fought and I'm still struggling everyday because now I know that I love English and I love teach. It is no easy for me but I like it so much and it is a challenge that I will win for me and when I began in the university my feeling was different and Now I know that I want to teach every day, I want to involve me with the students, I want to learn of each students, I want to teach, I know that it's so hard but the rewards are big.

Palmer writes: “ My ability to connect with my students and to connect them with the subject, depends less on the methods I use than on the degree to which I know and trust my selfhood—and I am willing to make it available and vulnerable in the service of learning”. What does it mean to rely on your selfhood rather than methods? 

It means that methods are the way how we can teach, it's a tool but the teachers have to rely on your selfhood and they have to be able to weave a complex web of connections among themselves and their subjects and their students so that students can be able to connect and understand the topic that they are studying.

A good teacher is always weaving the fabrics that join them with students and the subjects. And the heart is always the loom; it is teacher's capacity that has the responsibility to capture the attention of the students and where the students can understand that's what the teacher wants to teach them. A good teacher teaches with courage and enthusiasm and during the class, the students can see the teacher's ability and It is likely that they feel comfortable and they can say “the teacher is a good teacher".

Reflect about my earliest encounters with teaching. If you are drawn to teaching, when did you first feel drawn to it? What was it that drew you? What within you was evoked by teaching—its values, its methods, the way it names and frames reality? What does the nature of teaching reveal about who you are? If you aren’t, share a story about one of your favorite teachers. What do you recall most vividly about that teacher? What was his / her relation to the subject taught? What was the ethos of his/ her classroom?

when I started, I didn't have an idea how amazing It was to teach, when I was a child I used to play to be a teacher but I never thought that I will be a teacher. Teach drew me because I feel a passion for to teach and I want to teach. I want that students learn and improve their knowledge with the tool that I am going to give them when I was a teenager. I never was the best or the worst students in the class. I always was an students that always was in the middle, but I remember that my teachers gave us a lot of advise because they wanted that we could be successful in our life my teachers told me that I had to be responsible with all in my life and that I had to be respectful with me and with the older person. I had good teacher in my life and all of them gave me good advise but I remember the teacher Delia and I was 9 years old and she was a good teacher because she was responsible, dynamics and explain well all when she teach.

I remember that I want to be like her. She was as a model for me and then when I grew up. I met the teacher Nora, I was 14 years old and I remember that she was intelligent and she is intelligent, she is beautiful.

she taught me a lot of things when I was a teenager, she taught me that we have to be creative in our work and that we need to study every day and she explained us very well all our classes because it was not difficult to understand it and it was the moment where English was a challenge for me. And all that my teachers taught me they made me the person who I am today. A person that have dreams and the desire to improve every day because I have hope, I am a person with morals values and with a passion to teach.

Jane Tompkins discovered that her goal as a teacher had been to put on “performance,” thus distancing herself from students and subject. (pp.28-29). Do you identify with her self-criticism? If so, do you share Tompkins’s diagnosis of fear as the driving force behind this distancing? In what ways other than “performance” do teachers set themselves apart?

I am not identify with her self-criticism because I always think that I can do so that students can learn more each day I know that I don't have the enough experiences for to teach well but I know that I improve every day. I learn from my mistakes and I try not to commit it again.

But it is possible that in one moment, we lose ourselves and we don't see the needs or the help that students hope of their teacher. It is possible that the teacher think that their appearance like a good or perfect teacher is the best in the world, but it doesn't matter because the students hope a class where they can learn something new every day and our performance as a teacher, it is not only for ourselves. We don't have to be selfish because the most important when we are teaching are our students, and our performance as good teacher is to our students.