Teacher For a Day by Ashley

Teacher For a Day by Ashley - October 2016 Scholarship Essay

Imagine waking up one day as a teacher. You get to choose any subject you want to teach for one day. I would choose to teach US history. My junior year and now senior year i’ve been very interested in learning our history and what’s happening in our world. I like going on CNN, New York Times and Seattle times. I love having conversations with my teachers about what I saw on the news. Learning how our world has progressively changed throughout the years is fascinating. Its fascinating because you get to compare things that were great and have gone down hill in our present lives. History has made me open my eyes on not only the past but the future as I get closer to adulthood.
My sophomore year of high school in the beginning of the year, I wasn’t really interested in history because I felt like every year of school we learned the samething, like the same EXACT thing. It’s like the previous teacher had just passed their lesson plans over and that teacher would just polish it. But my history teacher was different, she taught us about many different ethnicities. How they were all impacted by white supremacy and how the people of color fought hard to get rights and to be recognized as human beings, because they were also humans. Their skin was just a little bit tanner, a little bit browner, a little bit darker. This really interested me because I am a person of color. I started to get more interested about how the past has had a big influence on our modern society.
This is why I would choose to be a history teacher. You get to learn all the ways the past has influenced our society now. You get to uncover the truths and the lies that are the roots of the US. You get to teach the others who really built this earth. You get to learn “first hand” on what happened in society and not what the book says. That is why I was really intrigued in US history because we weren't learning out of the books, we were learning from the teacher. That is what fascinated me and is why I would choose to be a US history.