"Why Teach?"
Chapter one poses the question “Why Teach?” It gives us different reasons why teachers have gone into the profession of teaching. It also tells us to examine our own motives. It mentions two different types of rewards, extrinsic-external and intrinsic which means internal. The chapter tells us to seek guidance and to reflect on our reasoning why we want to become teachers.
It encourages those who want to go into the teaching field to have “real encounters” with children. Sometimes, individuals become teachers because of what they see on television or movies.The chapter calls this “vicarious encounters” but when they first go into the classroom, it is not what they thought it was.
The chapter also mentions how principals no longer see new, incoming teachers like they used to in the past. They don’t think they have as much “drive”. One last reward that the book mentions is the physic rewards which runs deeper than the intrinsic rewards of teaching.
Teaching is not an easy job and many times I talk to students after their first year and decide it wasn't for them. My opinion to that issue is that they may have not had the support of the school and felt all alone.
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