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Jaime Jarmin
Eunice Johnston
English 167
Assignment 6: Define Your Goals
1. Professional goals: My professional goals as of right now would be becoming an
educator at a high school teaching English. My high school teacher Mrs. Karnik, and also
my college English 120 professor Dr. Helstern, inspired me to major in education.
Another reason I am interested in teaching English at the high school level would be my
passion for working with kids. While I worked at Badlands Ministries Bible Camp for the
past two summers now, I have found that I am called to work with kids, and that it is the
most rewarding type of work that I have ever done. I find the classroom discussions to be
extremely interesting because kids have a better imagination than any adult could ever
have.
2. Two outcomes for the English/English Education major: The two outcomes that relate
to my professional goals would be outcomes 1 and 2. Outcome one states that, “English
majors will be able to write and speak effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences
in a variety of genres and media.” This will be useful because I need to speak and write
effectively when I am in the classroom teaching students how to do as I say, and also as I
do. The second outcome for an English degree says, “English majors will be able to read
(analyze, interpret, critique, evaluate) written and visual texts.” Being able to read written
and visual texts while being able to analyze, interpret, critique and evaluate them will be
handy because this will help my students to better understand the material we will be
learning about.
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3. Where will you be in five years—Graduate school: I am hoping to attend graduate
school once I have earned my bachelor’s degree, because I feel as though this will help
me better educate my students once I become a secondary English teacher. On the
GradSchools.com website I found out that I could take many online programs, but if I
wanted to stay on campus then I would have to attend the University of North Dakota.
There were about 65 choices between both online and campus options for earning your
Certificate, Masters or Doctorate if I wanted to stay in North Dakota.
4. Curriculum guides for an English Education major: For my English Education major,
I will get the opportunity to take two literature electives at the 300- or 400- level. The
classes that I want to take are:
336 Literature and the Environment
380 Shakespeare
These classes will help me achieve my professional goals by effectively communicating
different aspects of literature to my future English students. When I become an English
teacher, I will be able to explain how literature and the environment correlate with one
another, and how prevalent the environment is within literature.By taking a Shakespeare
elective, I can discuss with my future students the comedies, tragedies, and poetry of
William Shakespeare.
5. Financial aspects: In my family, my twin sister and I are the first to attend a university
for our college education. When my sister and I were ready to attend college, we didn’t
have a college fund to dig into and neither did my two older brothers and sister. This
meant that we were on our own for paying for college, and we have had to take out a few
loans. We were fortunate enough to get a couple of grants and also have the ability to live
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at home while attending school, so this has cut down on the cost quite dramatically. I will
have to pay off my loans once I am out of school, but I am optimistically looking at the
education and degree that I’ll have which will propel me into a good job, instead of
looking at a high student loan bill.
