I always knew I wanted to go to school. It was obvious from the time I was in elementary school and I decided that I wanted to be a teacher. It switched many times after that to a variety of majors, but I made my way back to teaching. I always loved school. It is not necessarily recess, lunch, and extracurricular activities that caused excitement in my schooling career, but the classes and teachers. The support throughout high school by teachers along with the support of my family, I am going into the teaching field knowing that it is for me. Graduating from high school was never going to be the end of my education.
I was able to shadow a teacher of mine during high school and then in a college course, I had just to prove that I was taking the right path. I had “assignments” to do in the class if you will. Teacher things like making a seating chart, creating quizzes, grading work, and putting together a lesson plan. If I was not sure before, after all of that I definitely was. It was like being in a high school classroom all over when it came to learning new things and ways to create for the classroom. It is being in the classroom that makes me happy even though I just spent 13 years there previously. Tons of colleges have great teaching programs, so the problem was picking where exactly would be the best fit for me. I graduated from high school early and started immediately at a community college to cut expenses and get a head start. This being said though, I knew I would be transferring to IUPUI at some point. My dad went to IUPUI, which made it easy to have an inside look on things there with admissions, financial aid, and advising. This transfer is opening so many doors for me to explore my future career along with finding a minor that is suitable as well. So far, I have done my time at community college, five semesters actually.
There are so many programs at IUPUI. My major and minor are both English influenced. My high school English teachers were extremely influential and supportive, plus the teaching program advisors are extremely helpful and supportive as well.
So! Goodbye community college and hello IUPUI.
