In my ED 131 course on the teaching and learning module with Professor Eleonora Villegas-Reimers. A Boston University alum currently teaching sixth grade came to speak with us about her experiences as a teacher. As she lectured, she primarily focused on expressing all the negative aspects that come with being a teacher based on her personal experiences. Things such as receiving a low wage compared to the amount of work you do, lack of privacy and the struggle of filing paperwork. However, the struggles that she points out are an actual fact and the reality of many teachers. Her argument was discouraging, and it made me reflect on how I want to navigate my life and career, so if I ever saw myself in her position, I would actually say beautiful and nice things about my…show more content… The answer is that in this paper, I will be analyzing Lisa Delpit's argument in her piece about the importance of teaching and its impact on children, and providing my perspective of what kind of teacher I desire to become and why I decided to pursue the education career. Education is one of the careers that has a high potential of making an impact on individuals whether that impact is positive or negative, but many people don’t see the greatness or the value of education, and this goes by students themselves, parents, society, and in this case teachers as well. In Lisa Delpit’s paper, she talks about how the teachers that she teaches have this tendency of feeling tired and unmotivated in their job, the same with the alum that came to speak. But Delpit states that “It is that nothing makes more of a difference in a child’s school experience than a teacher.” (Delpit, 2012, P.71). In other words, she argues that teachers have the influence of making a child's academic experiences more motivational, engaging, and meaningful, but she argues that teachers aren’t making these achievements on their
