Catherin Juliet coy astaiza Reflective and critical analysis
Educational autobiography Professor Eliana A. Camacho
My educational experience took place in different locations along with the country, my first year of preschool was in a small village in which I was born and the majority of my family live. The teacher was my cousin, the principal was my aunt, and my mother was the cooker of the school, one of my partner was my cousin so I felt very good in my first grade. Then I moved on to another town in which my new school was bigger and now I only had one cousin but in very advanced grade, where I spent six years on my primary and one year of secondary school, and finally I came Neiva city and finish my secondary school in two different public schools, because in the first one I just had such a bad experience with the Math teacher and the heavy classroom environment to finally attend to a school in which I found my vocation and idea to become an English teacher some day.
I clearly remember the day I finished my preschool year, in which I have to demonstrate that I can tie our shoes by own, that moment I really liked to go to class. Another example of my type of class is doing the numbers with clay and then let it dry and paint with the help of my mom, those kind of activities which we as students really enjoy and used a common thing that we could see every rainy day, at the end of the day I used to see some of my classmates walking with two parents or different people such as grandmothers . In my case I only had my mom and my aunts and uncles, no father existing. I asked my mom why I did not have one and why grandparents had to come to the school where were the real mom and father. Finally, I learned from that situation that family can be in different ways and it is not one and only correct way, this situation also help me later in higher grades to understand that it is ok to have two moms or two dads in the case of separated parents. I really liked to observe people and to see a different kind of families that had my Friends.
In fourth grade I make a good friend call Angie, we were like any other friendship really close and enjoy the break together playing with dolls or climbing the trees. I remember one day we had a discussion and I said in a bad way that she was adopted, in fact, she was and I knew it and it was a reason why we were good Friends because I felt sorry about that and I just wanted to be her only friend because she did not have much at that time. I think those experiences on preschool and my mother´s explanations made me a compassionate girl and conscious about the value of family but I also knew that I can hurt my friend by using it as an offense. The next day, my friend did come to school and her mom told to my mom what had happened, I was really embarrassed, I remember asking to myself why I said that to my friend, I had become the bullier that I have to avoid and hate before. From that experience, I learned not to do things that I do not want my Friends to do to me. In school, we have two lives,the life inside the classroom and the life outside, from one I learned really amazing new knowledge and from the other values and expertise as a human in this world.
Overall, as a learner, I experienced such interesting events during my primary and secondary education that in one way or another rearranged my visión of the concepts of learning.One of them was in fourth grade when my teacher offer my mom to promote me to the next grade thanks to my abilities and good performance in all his lessons, I remember my mother asking me if I wanted to go to fifth grade and also telling me that she was really proud of me and that all her efforts worth it. That situation gave me the confidence to be more extrovert student than I was before , now I took those special moments to apply it to my students and remain them that each of them are capable to accomplish everything, that if I could do it they can do even better than I did even without all the things they have now around the corner.
When I said everything is all the technological, economic support that I sometimes barely had. I remember not having the best notebook with a sticker that other classmates used to have or having to walk long trips to come to my school alone. Nowadays I see many students with their moms always aware of what they have to do in the homework, in my case my mom was always working for me and I understood that since preschool so I felt that I was in charge of my school and duties.In rare cases my cousin or my aunt help me to solve the homework, the rest was me and my notebook figuring out what I had to do. Now I think that shaped me into an independent student capable of following teacher´s instructions and also develop the competencies and not only a transistor of knowledge.Every event that occurred along my life inside the school was key important to become the student that I was and now the future teacher that I am going to be.
However, another powerful event that shaped my view of life was the dance group, I was a member of a traditional dance group in my village in the south of Colombia and in one of the most dangerous places in it thanks to the FARC. My instructor was a teacher of ethics and knew everything about the culture and express yourself through art, in this case, through dance to defend our fields from damage and represent our culture. During the trips we made to countries such as Brazil, Ecuador, and a long Putumayo, I gained a significant amount of cultural experiences that helped me to understand that in spite we can have a different language we are in the same way. From this teacher, I set the idea of being proud of my roots and represent them in every place and take care as a treasure that heritage and that means to be very respectful with the “Pachamama” but also with people around me.
Although not everything was perfect as heaven, I had awful experiences during my high school with the Math teacher in the new school in the new city, She used to put students to expose the topic of the class to their classmates every class and at the end she would evaluate us, I really did not understand much or even learned, someday me and other three students talked to the coordinator about that situation, the next Math class was for me the worst in my entire life,she made us four cries inside the class, she threatened us with that she was going to talk with her lawyers and other overwhelming staff that for seven grade student is really serious. After years of avoiding maths in secondary school, I understood that it was not guilty of being afraid of numbers. After that kind of good and bad experiences, I decided to be as my good teachers and try to be as inspiring as they were to me because otherwise, I do not where I was if I did not choose to become an English teacher.
In conclusion, that inspiration that I got from my teachers was the reason why I decided to become a teacher, to do something for people throughout my expertise and knowledge.Also to enjoy life and being a good human that can connect different cultures and interact with them in order to learn values. But also love for what they are doing as in my case and overcome and learn from the possible negative obstacles during their process as students.
Educational autobiography Professor Eliana A. Camacho
My educational experience took place in different locations along with the country, my first year of preschool was in a small village in which I was born and the majority of my family live. The teacher was my cousin, the principal was my aunt, and my mother was the cooker of the school, one of my partner was my cousin so I felt very good in my first grade. Then I moved on to another town in which my new school was bigger and now I only had one cousin but in very advanced grade, where I spent six years on my primary and one year of secondary school, and finally I came Neiva city and finish my secondary school in two different public schools, because in the first one I just had such a bad experience with the Math teacher and the heavy classroom environment to finally attend to a school in which I found my vocation and idea to become an English teacher some day.
I clearly remember the day I finished my preschool year, in which I have to demonstrate that I can tie our shoes by own, that moment I really liked to go to class. Another example of my type of class is doing the numbers with clay and then let it dry and paint with the help of my mom, those kind of activities which we as students really enjoy and used a common thing that we could see every rainy day, at the end of the day I used to see some of my classmates walking with two parents or different people such as grandmothers . In my case I only had my mom and my aunts and uncles, no father existing. I asked my mom why I did not have one and why grandparents had to come to the school where were the real mom and father. Finally, I learned from that situation that family can be in different ways and it is not one and only correct way, this situation also help me later in higher grades to understand that it is ok to have two moms or two dads in the case of separated parents. I really liked to observe people and to see a different kind of families that had my Friends.
In fourth grade I make a good friend call Angie, we were like any other friendship really close and enjoy the break together playing with dolls or climbing the trees. I remember one day we had a discussion and I said in a bad way that she was adopted, in fact, she was and I knew it and it was a reason why we were good Friends because I felt sorry about that and I just wanted to be her only friend because she did not have much at that time. I think those experiences on preschool and my mother´s explanations made me a compassionate girl and conscious about the value of family but I also knew that I can hurt my friend by using it as an offense. The next day, my friend did come to school and her mom told to my mom what had happened, I was really embarrassed, I remember asking to myself why I said that to my friend, I had become the bullier that I have to avoid and hate before. From that experience, I learned not to do things that I do not want my Friends to do to me. In school, we have two lives,the life inside the classroom and the life outside, from one I learned really amazing new knowledge and from the other values and expertise as a human in this world.
Overall, as a learner, I experienced such interesting events during my primary and secondary education that in one way or another rearranged my visión of the concepts of learning.One of them was in fourth grade when my teacher offer my mom to promote me to the next grade thanks to my abilities and good performance in all his lessons, I remember my mother asking me if I wanted to go to fifth grade and also telling me that she was really proud of me and that all her efforts worth it. That situation gave me the confidence to be more extrovert student than I was before , now I took those special moments to apply it to my students and remain them that each of them are capable to accomplish everything, that if I could do it they can do even better than I did even without all the things they have now around the corner.
When I said everything is all the technological, economic support that I sometimes barely had. I remember not having the best notebook with a sticker that other classmates used to have or having to walk long trips to come to my school alone. Nowadays I see many students with their moms always aware of what they have to do in the homework, in my case my mom was always working for me and I understood that since preschool so I felt that I was in charge of my school and duties.In rare cases my cousin or my aunt help me to solve the homework, the rest was me and my notebook figuring out what I had to do. Now I think that shaped me into an independent student capable of following teacher´s instructions and also develop the competencies and not only a transistor of knowledge.Every event that occurred along my life inside the school was key important to become the student that I was and now the future teacher that I am going to be.
However, another powerful event that shaped my view of life was the dance group, I was a member of a traditional dance group in my village in the south of Colombia and in one of the most dangerous places in it thanks to the FARC. My instructor was a teacher of ethics and knew everything about the culture and express yourself through art, in this case, through dance to defend our fields from damage and represent our culture. During the trips we made to countries such as Brazil, Ecuador, and a long Putumayo, I gained a significant amount of cultural experiences that helped me to understand that in spite we can have a different language we are in the same way. From this teacher, I set the idea of being proud of my roots and represent them in every place and take care as a treasure that heritage and that means to be very respectful with the “Pachamama” but also with people around me.
Although not everything was perfect as heaven, I had awful experiences during my high school with the Math teacher in the new school in the new city, She used to put students to expose the topic of the class to their classmates every class and at the end she would evaluate us, I really did not understand much or even learned, someday me and other three students talked to the coordinator about that situation, the next Math class was for me the worst in my entire life,she made us four cries inside the class, she threatened us with that she was going to talk with her lawyers and other overwhelming staff that for seven grade student is really serious. After years of avoiding maths in secondary school, I understood that it was not guilty of being afraid of numbers. After that kind of good and bad experiences, I decided to be as my good teachers and try to be as inspiring as they were to me because otherwise, I do not where I was if I did not choose to become an English teacher.
In conclusion, that inspiration that I got from my teachers was the reason why I decided to become a teacher, to do something for people throughout my expertise and knowledge.Also to enjoy life and being a good human that can connect different cultures and interact with them in order to learn values. But also love for what they are doing as in my case and overcome and learn from the possible negative obstacles during their process as students.
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