Statement of Purpose: Teaching Job

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“If you don't look, you don't see, and what you don't see can be very hard to find!" Ms. Frizzle, the outrageous teacher from the TV show “The Magic School Bus”, spoke the previous words to her classroom students. One thing every teacher aims to do is generate excitement in the classroom on a daily basis. When it comes to enthusiasm, no one can match Ms. Frizzle and her Magic School Bus. Whether it’s teaching about the solar system, the center of the earth, or the human body, Ms. Frizzle is a master when it comes to making sure her students are excited about learning. Since a very young age, and even to this day, I have always been eager to learn things that I did not fully understand or even things that I had never heard about. When I walked into my elementary school classroom and heard that we would be watching an episode of “The Magic School Bus” that eagerness would fill me up as I watched the show attentively paying attention to every comment and detail. As an applicant for a teaching position at your school, I promise to instill the same eagerness about learning to my students as I had in my years of elementary school. In my own life, I have been involved in numerous disciplines which have involved long study: committing thirteen years of tedious instruction in tap and jazz, traveling from state to state during competitive cheerleading, watching the volume of my voice from day to day for voice lessons, becoming a completely new person on cue in theater coaching, and coming home from gymnastics training everyday with bruises and sore muscles. My greatest accomplishment overall is teaching myself classical and modern piano. “This is my summer goal,” are the words I spoke to my friend Brooke, “Watch me. I will come back to school and be able to play, I promise!” I’m not sure if it was the promise I had made to my friend or if it was pure excitement

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