How were my best teachers

I work in a Vocational Training school and I love my job! Nowadays I'm doing a course to teach my subjects in English and the teacher asked us about the person how inspired our vocation. This is my essay to explain it...

I don't really remember to much about my teachers... the majority just wanted the units were memorised and repeated in the same way as they taught me them. They used to explain during the class and at the end of the unit we had an exam, just to repeat the same things...I did it as well as possible... but I don't like that methodology.

Thanks to my mother, brothers and sister, I was in a scout group for a lot of years and it was there where I started to love Education. It is no-formal education, but its methodology is a good example for schools. The scouting method is based in some pillars: small groups, learning through accion, self-responsability, self-assessment...

At the end, there are a lot of persons who inspired me to love education work... Sir Baden Powell for creating the scout movement, my educators in the group and my scoutmates. I want to give a special mention to my educators, because their work was as a volunteers and a scout group requires a lot of time! They prepared activities to educated, but when I was a child I thought we were just playing, not learning.

While I was studying to become a lawyer, I worked as a educator in summer camps and jobs like that. I thought it was just some jobs to pay my University. But at the end, when I finished my degree, I started looking for a job as a teacher.

Working as a teacher I discovered the cooperative learning (very similar to scout method) and I have to be grateful to my teacher in that course. She taught me the essential elements and I started to change my way of doing my lessons. I always try to improve in my job, in my way of working.