In 2009, I completed the Alternate Route to Certification program in order to become a Language Arts teacher and began teaching Language Arts in 2011. I must say that the best thing about teaching is establishing relationships with students and parents and seeing their faces when a goal is accomplished. When students dislike reading and writing, it is because they have not found their "just right" book or reading passage that pulls them in. It is a mutual feeling of joy when I see a studen...