Being human, as we all are, I have my faults and my strengths.  This has always bothered me, especially when I chose to be a teacher. I always viewed teachers as above reproach.  Now, I know that my strengths and weaknesses are what will make me a better teacher if I choose to use them as steps instead of walls.

 

I have two major strengths in my personality. The first one being I am a very outgoing person. It is a joke in my family that I must have had a billion past lives, because I have never met a stranger or someone I could not almost immediately win over after a conversation. This will be a must have in my classroom. I will be able to bond quickly with my students and set up comfortable relationships with them. Also, it may put the parents at ease and make them feel I am someone they can come to with problems regarding their child. My other major strength is that I have a tendency to be stubborn. For a long time, I thought of this as a fault. It took actually teaching one of my siblings to tie his shoes that showed me I can use it to the greater good. If I see a child wanting to give up due to failure or an inner struggle, I will see that as a personal challenge to me to help them pull through. Just like the Army, I never leave a man (or child) behind.

 

With the above strengths, I feel I could most definitely be an asset to any school I work with. I will be able to communicate with parents and teachers others dread to deal with. Students may even come to find that giving up is actually more trouble than the work they don’t do, because then Teacher is on their back until it gets done one way or the other.

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My “angelic” weakness? I am too quick tempered, but point is my temper is very…loud. I am a yeller and this will cause problems for me in the fact that yelling will NEVER get my point across.  Children either become frightened or tune you out when you yell.  I suppose I could use my quick temper to better understand the children who lash out in class. It would give me experience to draw on. Also, when a student makes me angry and they see me control it, it may make disciplining them easier because they think they are getting off lightly.