User:Abake023

About Me
My name is Amy Baker, I'm 19 and a sophomore at Old Dominion University. I am double-majoring in Human Services and Education. I hope to be an Elementary school guidance counselor; and i would also like to teach. I was born in Fairfax, VA and raised in Woodbridge, VA; which means that I lived in Northern Virginia all my life. Although I was born there my family is from all over the place. My family is the most important thing in the world to me. Without them, I would probably go crazy. I have a younger brother who is 16 and an older sister who is 25. I also have a boyfriend that is in the Air Force. In my free time i like to go shopping, hang out with my friends, and shop some more! :) I am almost always on the go and it is very hard for me to just sit around in the house.  I always feel like i should be doing something productive.

Why I Want To Teach
Ever since I was little I always told everyone that I wanted to be a teacher when "i grew up". I just wanted to be able to help people. There have been a lot of teachers in the past that have had such a huge impact on me. My Fashion Marketing teacher in high school is probably the one teacher that had the largest impact on my life (she also attended Old Dominion University which is a coincidence). She loved all of her students so much. She was also one of the cheerleading coaches so she was very close to me and my group of friends. I took her class my junior and senior years of high school. She was like a second mom to us. We could always go to her with any problems that we were having and she would listen. But she wouldn't just listen, she had been there. She had 3 kids who were around the same age as us and it seemed like she had been through it all. She would always stick up for us something that happened to us was unfair. At the end of my senior year when it was time for prom all of my friends came to my house to take pictures and to get in the limo, and she came to see all of us go off to prom. And at graduation she was the last person who saw us before we walked across the stage. She prepared us and made sure that we looked nice for the picture, and with tears in her eyes she told me how proud she was. At that moment i realized how much she would impact me, as well as many other students that year.

My Philosophy
I have always known that when i got older i would want to help people in some way. I believe that teachers, especially through grade school can have a HUGE impact on the lives of people. I believe that without education, nothing would be the same as it is today. It is education that taught scientists science, it is education that taught people how to make a positive impact on society. I believe that all children want to learn and that they may have to learn in a different way than others, but everyone is fully capable of learning and having the same amount of education as everyone else. Also, I worked at a school over the summer last year at my old elementary school as a teacher's aide and where i live there are a lot of immigrants. The kindergarten class that I was in was full of students that hardly knew English. I got to work one on one with some of these students, especially the ones that had short attention spans. Seeing the way that they improved over the few weeks that i spent with them was amazing to me. It shows that just a little one on one attention can do wonders for students. If they know that you care they will feel like they should do well.