SUBJECT: Personality Assessment on Career Choice
Hello James, I heard that you plan to become a teacher, and I thought as a friend and a practicing teacher, I should share a few things with you concerning the profession. Teaching can be very satisfying for people who do it well. Every teacher wants to be useful, but there are unique qualities that they must possess.
A good teacher must have excellent communication skills. Although a person may be knowledgeable, if they cannot convey their knowledge understandably and engagingly, their experience is useless. Your ideas should be organized in a way that your students will easily understand. You are not entirely an organized person, and this characteristic may be challenging to fulfill.
Superior listening skills is another quality of an excellent teacher that you lack. When a teacher asks their learners questions, the teacher should actively listen to what the students have to say.
Also, an excellent teacher should have in-depth knowledge of passion for the subject matter. A teacher is only as good as what they know. If a teacher is ignorant of a particular subject, the ignorance is passed down to the students. Moreover, passion inspires more profound knowledge; love of a subject matter inspires someone to learn more and dig in depth. You do not love education. You like easy things, and probably that is why you want to become a teacher. I can confirm to you that it is not easy.
You must have the ability to develop strong relationships with students. Caring relationships with students enable teachers to create successful learning environments. Moreover, a good relationship between teachers and students facilities exchange of information. Best teachers care about the welfare of the students they teach more than their jobs. In addition to having good relationships with students, good teachers understand the significance of building compassionate and collaborative environments; they establish healthy and mutually respectful interactions among the learners. Classrooms are like small communities, and every student should feel like they are essential because they play a part. A good teacher can assign roles and guidelines to help each student participate in the class while working together as a group.
As a good teacher, one should be friendly and approachable. If the teacher is unfriendly, the students will not reach out for help on challenging questions; thus, their issues will go unanswered. Additionally, all lessons do not have to be delivered in a serious tone; a good teacher is humorous to ease tension in a classroom. If students consider their teacher an enemy, they will undoubtedly not learn. The best teachers are the most welcoming, comfortable to approach, and outgoing. From our interactions, I have observed that you are not very friendly and not easily approachable unless. You have very few friends, and you do not like adding more. Most people consider you harsh.
You should conduct a personality assessment; it refers to the measurement of personal characteristics. The two types of personality tests include self-report inventories and projective tests. Self-report inventories ask a series of true/false questions intended to provide a person’s clinical profile. On the other hand, projective tests use ambiguous images or other ambiguous stimuli to assess a person’s fears, challenges, and desires. At your workplace, your personality affects how you interact with colleagues, bosses, and clients. Moreover, it may have a significant impact on an Individual’s career trajectory and job satisfaction. Once you conduct the personality assessment, you will be able to make wise career decisions and realize that teaching is just not for you.