When you give a teacher a class.
She will start to see a future. A blank room, a long hallway, and twenty new faces. As a bright-eyed new teacher, I will get ready for the first day on the job, and I can't help but look back at what pushed me into this direction. Twelve years of primary school and four years at The University of North Dakota have prepared me for this day.
The first day of school will soon be here and I will have to have my classroom ready for twenty students to come in and learn. I have watched my mother do this a thousand times, but I never imagined I'd be in her shoes one day. From moving her classroom across the hall to across the country.
My parents are bringing up things for me to decorate my classroom with. From bulletin board decorations to reading nook chairs, and more books than any student could read in a year. As my students wander my new classroom, I can see their hopes and dreams in every book they pick up. Miss America, The President, or even a Doctor — anything is possible to them.
Kids look at the world with bright eyes and their brains are ready to explore. It's the moment everyone has, when they realize, "This is it, this is the career I have been dreaming of." That lightbulb moment, as some call it.
We all have one teacher who lit a fire in us to explore our passions; that's what I want to be for someone. I want to be the teacher that shows my students the endless possibility of anything and everything.
So if you give a teacher a classroom, you aren't just giving her a future, you're giving twenty young minds a chance to grow. Without a teacher, any other profession wouldn't be possible.
