Student teaching autobiography examples teachers
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Once a Teacher, Always a Teacher (Autobiography, Ch. 26)
I am grateful that God prepared me for a teaching career through preaching. My first teaching assignment at Trent University was to teach Psychology 101, and I was able to hold the students’ interest and inspire them to be good students in spite of my speech impediment.
It is a privilege and blessing that I have spent most of my adult life teaching. Even in my old age (over 80 years old), I still have so many opportunities to practice my profession. In 2018, I faced the challenge of speaking to more than 90 second-year undergraduates in Spain on the topic of “Psychopathology & Meaning”. As usual, I walked into the lecture hall with a broad smile, but also with some apprehension, not knowing how I would connect with so many young students through a translator.
Before I spoke, I looked at a few students sitting in the front row. They smiled back at me as soon as we made eye contact. At that moment, I knew that everything
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Biography
I grew up in the West Island as the eldest of two children in a bilingual family. As a child, I loved everything that had to do with school, and I often played the role of a teacher when my friends and I played Classroom. Around age 8, I decided that I wanted to be a teacher, but as the years went by, I strayed from my path, studying Music and Science in CEGEP, only to come back to my original belief upon completing my double DEC in 2012.
I believe that the defining experience that made me realize, as an adult, that I truly wanted to teach and work with people above all else was a study trip to Nicaragua that I participated in in 2010-2011. This trip was open to Vanier College students from all programs and the goal was to do some charity work and spend three weeks learning about the lives, culture, and circumstances of people living in impoverished rural Nicaragua. We stayed in a densely populated village that was about four hours from the nearest city and spent
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My dreams of becoming a teacher started at a very ung age. Growing up with my mom being a teacher, inom knew that I wanted to follow in her footsteps. As a little girl, inom have levande memories of playing school and setting up my “classroom” in my playroom. Complete with an old wooden school desk with an inkwell. I always enjoyed going to my mom’s school and meeting the “big kids” that she taught. I loved being in the school environment and dreamed of having my own classroom just like hers, one day. As I got older, inom quickly understood that teaching was a whole lot more than a nice classroom and having the summers off. I began to see just how much of being a teacher was brought home with my mom each day. inom witnessed countless hours spent doing report cards, all of the marking that is done outside of school time, the vikt she carries when her students are struggling, and even the heartbreak of losing a student. But I also got to witness the joy when my mom and inom got to attend the weddi