Where do good teachers come from?

I can’t speak for all teachers or all administrators, but I know where a lot of us come from.

I have always enjoyed teaching and my mother will tell you stories of how I would play school with my sister and neighborhood friends. Although I went to college to major in computer science, I spent a lot of time tutoring, picking up extra spending money. Even as a computer science professional, I spent a lot of time training people. Getting a teaching certificate and teaching high school was a natural fit.

Some of my friends are at least second generation teachers, who had had tried other careers but came back to teaching.

The commonality is that we love kids, we enjoy seeing kids surpass our abilities and knowledge and we want our students to have better lives than they do now, better than their parents and better than ours.

I have seen many of my students achieve those goals over the years and it is a great feeling to know I have helped get them there.