From the time I was in third grade, I wanted to be a teacher. Though the subject matter changed over the years, my love for education has not. Education is something that has always been valued by my family and they instilled this value into me. Teaching is considered to be the "family profession," however, this is not why I decided to pursue this career. I have a passion for passing along what I know to others, in hopes to instill the same value into students that my family passed along to me; a love of learning. I want to pass along the wisdom that my dad told me, "push through the failures and learn from them."

Teaching is more than just a fulfilling career; it is the opportunity to change and impact a child's life every single day. A quick fun fact about me; I dreaded and hated math until the time I was a junior in high school. My grandfather was a math teacher, so naturally, most of my time spent after school with him was doing math. Finally, I had that one teacher in 11th grade that made math applicable. She lead with a constructivist theory. She made us relate it to the real world. She made us formulate our own theories on how it could be used and discover them outside of the classroom.
 
When my grandfather passed away, I was already on track to become an educator. However, many of his former students came to the funeral. When I would talk to them, they all said that his love of math inspired them to find something they loved and make a career out of their passions. He made several of them love math for the beauty it possess and its daily applications. Many of them said he was the one teacher that impacted their lives. I strive to be this teacher for my students.