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I am a Spanish Teacher Education major with a TESOL minor. When I finish my degree, I will have a k-12 certificate. With this being said, my dream job would be to teach in an Elementary School as a Spanish teacher. I am aware that this will be a hard job to find as some schools are not funded enough in the language arts in order to start language learning at a young age, but I love the Spanish language, as well as teaching to younger children, so that would be a perfect job for me.

Having TESOL as my minor, I would also love to teach english to younger children that are new to the US. As a future TESOL teacher, I value helping my students to better understand the information they will be learning in their new schools, as well as help them with a comfortable transition into the school.

As a future language teacher in general, I extremely value culture. I think that as a language teacher I want to instill in my students' minds that learning about and accepting the culture of other ethnic groups is of utmost importance. I believe that TESOL is an important job because it will help students that cannot understand the material being taught to them in Enlgish speaking classrooms, and it will allow them to succeed in these schools. I think that after taking this course that I will learn how to assess the progress of the students that I will have. I will be more confident with my upcoming profession, and I will be able to see the practical uses of teaching TESOL.