As a first year teacher I began the school year with the feeling that "I can change the world" - "I can be the best teacher in this subject, school, district and state!" - "I will be able to change the lives of students, at least one!" Now that this school year is half over I just hope to be able to take my interview response as truth.
Interviewer, principal, "Why are you the BEST person for this job?"
Me, "Well, honestly, I think I am the best because being the best requires that you know you're never the best that you can be. It's important to me to continually improve my practice and reflect on my teaching. If I continue to do this then I will improve and being my journey to being the best for me and for the job"
As proof of my steps towards becoming the best I have just started my PhD program. It is focused on curriculum and instruction design. I believe it is imperative that a teacher has a good curriculum and is able to appropriately instruct students. I do not believe each teacher needs to design their own curriculum but they must have an effective and strong curriculum to fall back on.
More so, I believe that the first year is the BEST year because I am continually learning and everything is still new. Ten years from now I may be a better teacher but many things I do in my classroom will have been done by me in the past.
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