Will I have to give up my dream of becoming a Teacher?

Question

I've always wanted to be a teacher ever since I was really little but, it seems like I get very inpatient around kids. Do you think I will become more patient as I get older or will I have to give up my dream of becoming an Elementary School Teacher?

Answer 1

You didn't say your age, but don't give up yet. True, teaching elementary does require a lot of patience, and everyone is not cut out to be a teacher. Many even do not realize they can't do it until they get in the classroom. Try to be around kids more now, but not for too long periods of time at first, and gradually spend more time. Always show respect to the little ones and do not treat them as a "child". Try your best to be patient, but if you realize that it seems too much like "work", than being natural and pleasurable, then you might want to consider a different profession.
I didn't even plan to go to college, but after my Navy service I did - ended up teaching kindergarten for 22 years and loved it.
I wish you luck.

Answer 2

If you can't be patient around little kids than yes becoming an elementary school teacher is a bad idea. Younger kids do require a lot of patience. You can try to teach high school or middle school. You won't have to give up your dream of being a teacher.

Answer 3

I am a teacher. My advice, don't forget about teaching but consider teaching high school instead. I have found that for less patient persons high school is better as by this age the children are more taking more responsibility for the learning, they are more settled and mentally they are more developed so it's not as hard to explain concepts to them. In short, you are not required to be as patient as an elementary or kindergarten teacher BUT you must still display a some degree of patience.

Answer 4

It's hard to say if you will become more patient, but I think you need to consider why you want to become a teacher. If you don't like kids and if you don't have patience, you will have a short career as a teacher. Kids can drive you absolutely insane sometimes, so you have to practice patience and have a good sense of yourself. But, if you truly want to make a difference and grow as a person, teaching will be a life challenge. ( I've been teaching high school for 10 years)

Answer 5

If you are impatient with children now, I do not think your dream career as a teacher is right for you. You will have 4-6 years of university and years of those involve student teaching in classrooms. To be a teacher like myself you have to be devoted and have lots of patience. The working hours are long, the salary is not so good compare to what you can make in the business, medical, and other fields. You are young, you can find somethin else that you may enjoy as a career

Answer 6

Patience is something all people have to work at. Practice counting to 10 before you respond to something that causes you to react in anger. By the time you finish counting, the initial impulse to respond angrily will have passed. Also you could volunteer or get a part time job at a pre-school or an after school program for elementary school children. This will give you a taste of how dealing with children all day would affect you and help you in making your decision.

Answer 7

You definitely need to have some patience to be a teacher, but you also need to consider that it is normal for everyone to get impatient at times. If you are constantly impatient around kids, then you probably wouldn't be very happy being a teacher.

I think you need to spend lots of time around children in a school-type setting to see if it is what you really want to do. You don't need to give up on your dream, just invest time and effort into figuring out if that really is your dream.

Answer 8

if you have a dream act... try working with kids little by little. You don't have to give up your dream. Don't sell yourself short. It's hard to be nice all the time, just think of what they do good. They are so cute and helpless. They are not trying to make you mad or give up your dream of becoming a teacher. Really you to decide what you are going to do. Try a higher grade or teaching an elective. If you want it bad enough you'll get it as long as you keep trying.

Answer 9

I think you can become more patient if you figure out why you become impatient. Personality traits like that don't usually just go away on their own; they disappear because we actively seek to replace them.

Do some self-examining to figure out why you get so impatient--is it the noise, activity level, your expectations, your lack of understanding of appropriat child development, your lack of experience with kids, lack of discipline among the kids, feelings of inadequacy (you just feel like you can't get them to do what you would like them to), etc.

Also examine why you wanted to be a teacher in the first place and whether it's really still your dream or if it's just a leftover dream from your childhood. Consider other careers in education, including teaching at a different level. If something in your heart just says that teaching is it, then figure out what you can do be more patient.

Answer 10

We all start off wanting one thing, then later changing to something else. If you want teaching bad enough you will over come this, however maybe you should teach older kids so that it will give you a taste, the younger one's would do better though. I wish you luck! It is not an easy task. I wanted to be an airline steward and did not end up doing that, Im even afraid to fly now....so POOP on that!...It's ok to change find something that works.