Hi there! My name is Rebecca Newcomb and I currently studying to be a educator at Northwest Nazarene University.
I personally LOVE education and would happily be a lifetime student myself if it wasn't for the complication of needing to earn a living to pay my bills. I spent the last 12 and 1/2 years working for UPS and gained a lot from my experience there, one of the things that I learned during this time is that life is too short to do something you don't enjoy. Teaching has always been something that I thought I would enjoy and earlier this year I made the decision to leave my job and return to school to pursue this dream. I have certainly had to adjust my lifestyle and getting used to living as a student has been an interesting transition, but after spending quite a few hours observing classrooms this semester I am more convinced than ever that becoming an educator is what I want to do.
At this point I am thinking that I want to teach upper elementary when I am done with my certification program, specifically 5th grade. I like the idea of working with younger children, but would like to spend the majority of my time teaching subject specific content, not reading and writing.
I am really enjoying my experience of being a student again, but can not wait for the day when I am a teacher in my own classroom.
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