10B Dreaming of the Future

I have so many ideas and dreams for the future. Sometimes throughout the day I daydream and think about what my future would look like. I picture myself waking up every morning and driving to a school and teaching a group of 4-5 year olds the basics of reading, writing and imagination in a preschool environment. This is one of my biggest dream. Ever since my junior year I fell in love with teaching children in this age group. I was given the opportunity to teach for one day in a preschool like classroom though my child development class. I walked into the classroom about fifteen minutes before the parents would begin dropping their children off for the morning, I was both excited and nervous. As I played and taught my lesson plan to the class I fell more and more in love with this age group. Their eagerness, excitement and attention throughout the morning was amazing. I had never seen a group of children so happy to learn something new. As I left the classroom at the end of the day I knew this was something I wanted to do with the rest of my life. My biggest dream of mine is to have my own classroom in a school system and teach and develop the minds of those children who would be enrolled in my class. I think this career wouldn’t feel like work to me. I would be able to create fun and exciting lesson plans not only for the children to enjoy but also for my to have some fun too. Becoming a teacher is a dream I would love to achieve and could see myself doing for the rest of my life.

Senior cheerleading team I coached last season 

Another dream of mine is to become a cheerleading coach/choreographer. I discovered this is something I enjoyed my freshmen year of high school. My town has a youth cheerleading league that cheers for the youth football team. My coach would select a few girls from every grade and assign them a team to help out with and help improve their skills. I was selected to coach the senior cheerleading team which consists of 7th and 8th graders. This opportunity opened my eyes to how much I could help and improve those girl’s skills. I could also relate to them a lot because many of them who were in 8th grade, wanted to try out for the high school team, and I was in their position the year before. Coaching was probably one of my favorite things I did throughout high school. Many of my teammates and fellow coaches always talked about how we would love to coach our own teams some day or open a cheerleading gym and focus more on the competitive aspect of cheerleading. Opening up a gym or just coaching a high school or middle school level team in the future is another important dream of mine. Cheerleading has been apart of my life since I was in middle school and I have loved every single moment of it. It has opened my eyes to so many different experiences and opportunities I would have never been able to witness without being a part of a cheerleading team.  

These dreams of mine are very realistic and achievable. Right now I am just beginning my path to becoming a teacher and still cheerleading. I am just merely four to five years away to achieve my dream of becoming a preschool teacher. This year I am taking a year off from coaching since I am at school and don’t have a car on campus. I am hoping that next year I can start coaching the team I have been with for the past couple years again. The future as I dream it would be perfect. I would be doing the two things I have fallen in love with throughout high school which is teaching and coaching cheerleading.