Educational Autobiography
Throughout your whole life the process of learning is never stopped. I have been aware of that since I was a little child. However, there always are some things you change of your personality and way of learning as you grow older. It seems that experience usually plays an important role in this process. I have had a good education in terms of experienced professors, good public schools, and good friend all along the way. However, it does not mean I have not had issues with all these three characters in my educational life.
I had a average educational life, I must say that my teachers at elementary and high school were skillful with the topics and subject they taught me. Regarding the learning process, I was always an educated boy. I was interested in getting good grades that show I was able to do things in my life. My teachers usually said I was good at Maths, which I did not mind. Nevertheless, it is not the same nowadays since I only remember some topics such as addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, some things about fractions... I have been bad, if not the worst, at English until my eighth grade. At that time, I think I bottomed out. I remember that grades were scaled from 1 to 10 and I failed English with 2.7. That was the time when I felt horribly bad at something. Hence, I told myself, literally: "You cannot be such a donkey at English" So I decided to start studying and strengthening my abilities at English, which, at that time, were nule. Thus, that is, I guess, the beginning of my English language teaching career.
Likewise, as I was growing up, learning all those things, I gained social experience in regards to the north American culture. Thus, I was listening to american music, reading magazines, and watching series in order to develop my english language skills. In regards to the contexts in which knowledge is spread, basically what I could learn from all those subjects such as chemical, physic, trigonometry... I still find it useless in my life. However, some subjects such as spanish geography, maths, music left me really useful knowledge to be applied in real life.
In the sense of using those theories studied, I cannot say anything about them since I do not remember exactly about physics or religion. Nevertheless, I can say that my teaching process and its theories have been fruitful in the educational field. Therefore, all those theories are really useful when you are a teacher trying to get the knowledge in your pupils brains. On one hand, there is the fact of being a teacher for normal people. They think that you are amazing, you know it all, you are nice all the time. Nonetheless, they forget that we are humans too. On the other hand, there is the perspective of being a teacher from a teacher's point of view. It is totally different subject matter.
Finally, I still think there is so much I have to learn. I must say I do not want to be a teacher, but I already am. Therefore, I need to put all my effort and energy to it if I want to fulfill all the requirements this profession has. I admit that it has been an interesting journey from the first semester to now. It is an amazing work to do, ignoring all the downsides. Perhaps, I would say that the most important thing for a teacher is not to forget that you are dealing with human beings and vice versa.
