For the love of reading!

Most people who know me know that I love to read. Growing up it was the Babysitters Club, Christopher Pike, Dean Kontz. Now as an adult, I actually read non-fiction books. Currently, I was at a middle school in Canton where I have access to thousands of books. As I mentioned at the first of the semester I do the Dewey, which is reading 25 books from the different Dewey classifications. Doing this has opened me to all sorts of new levels of reading. It also has helped me in my career choice in English studies.

When I first decided I wanted to become an English Education major was not that I love English so much but I did not have to take as many math and sciences classes if I was a middle grades education major. Now since it working in the media center made me realize that I want to teach so I can pass on my love of reading to students. When helping students find a book in the media center I try to encourage them to read something new and out of their usual series that they read.

What I really plan on doing with my degree and my love for reading is to become a reading teacher and later get my masters in Media Technology so I can be a Media Specialist in a middle school. If I become a Media Specialist, I can continue my love of reading and be involved in selecting new books for the media center and getting suggestions from students about what books they are interested in for the media center.

I am very eager to finish school so that I may do what I want to do in the school system. I know that as a Media Specialist I will have to read most books that come so that I am able to tell students what they are about. I do that now but not on the level I want to because I am at school two-three nights a week. When I am done with my degrees, I will have more time to continue reading to my children and will have time to read on my own.

I hope that my love of reading will never die and I do not lose interest whenever I become a Media Specialist. I think that because I do not want this to happen it will not. I see the Media Specialist I work with and several reading teachers and know that I want to be like them when I am done with school. I see them encouraging students and listening to students about their wants and needs for reading and they take that into consideration when helping the students choose a book.

Overall, I see myself finishing with my bachelors in English Education and working on my masters to become a Media Specialist. I cannot wait! I look forward to the future where my work world revolves around students and books.