Why I Want To Become An Elementary School Teacher Since the tender age of 6, I've always known that I wanted to be a teacher. I can recall playing school either with my friends, or talking to my imaginary students all by myself. My name was always Mrs. Pollack, the same as my first grade teacher. I would write lessons on the blackboard, grade imaginary tests, take my class on nature walks around the schoolyard (my …showed first 75 words of 405 total…

…showed last 75 words of 405 total…Almost every day, while the teacher was giving a lesson, she would ask me to mark the students' homework, which I absolutely loved to do. Seeing the progress in these children's reading ability by the end of the summer was extremely gratifying, for both the teacher and myself. The activities I did this past summer reminded me exactly why I wanted to be a teacher, and that there is no other suitable profession for me.