Personal Bio
Throughout my life I have always paid close attention to teachers and the education system. I had the pleasure to have grown up with many members of my family having various roles in the world of education and their influence on me has been substantial to say the least. My admiration for my own family members transferred sufficiently enough for me to observe my own teachers with a strong sense of wonder and curiosity. As I got older, this sense of wonder and curiosity also developed into much critique paired with a strong desire to understand the profession intimately and intellectually.
Parellely, I have also gone through the same development for Spanish language and culture. I have always had various people around me that epitomized aspects of Spanish and made that entire world so appealing that I had to involve myself in it. I have spent many summers galavanting around Spanish speaking countries so that I could interact with this language and its people. Education has always been a point of interest for me, but Spanish is what was able to bridge the gap between conversing about content to the desire to transfer content to young minds.
Teaching for me has always been the epitome of transferring knowledge. Taking information from one mind and presenting it to others in a way that would let them play with it, create things with it, and use it to understand the world better or in a different way. Pedagogy is not only a fascinating realm but a pragmatic, and admirable realm. I want to teach so I can show students how much the Spanish language can enrich their lives to such an unpredictable and marvelous degree. I want to be a part of the realm of education so I can investigate and play with the plethora of ways to reach individual students, present concepts in an interesting but successful way, and be a part of the emotional, social, and intellectual development of students.
My internship semesters have taught me just a few of the nuanced methods and ways of interacting with students that are enacted for their success in the classroom. I have learned that with as much planning and organization there comes in tandem a dynamic ability to adapt depending on the needs of the students. I have seen that my problem in teaching does not lie in my ability to create relationships with students or to project my voice or my handle on the Spanish language, but lies rather in my ability to be able to deviate from my own plans.
In the future I plan to work diligently and with enthusiasm on being more adaptable to my own students while still maintaining supportive relationships with them.
Parellely, I have also gone through the same development for Spanish language and culture. I have always had various people around me that epitomized aspects of Spanish and made that entire world so appealing that I had to involve myself in it. I have spent many summers galavanting around Spanish speaking countries so that I could interact with this language and its people. Education has always been a point of interest for me, but Spanish is what was able to bridge the gap between conversing about content to the desire to transfer content to young minds.
Teaching for me has always been the epitome of transferring knowledge. Taking information from one mind and presenting it to others in a way that would let them play with it, create things with it, and use it to understand the world better or in a different way. Pedagogy is not only a fascinating realm but a pragmatic, and admirable realm. I want to teach so I can show students how much the Spanish language can enrich their lives to such an unpredictable and marvelous degree. I want to be a part of the realm of education so I can investigate and play with the plethora of ways to reach individual students, present concepts in an interesting but successful way, and be a part of the emotional, social, and intellectual development of students.
My internship semesters have taught me just a few of the nuanced methods and ways of interacting with students that are enacted for their success in the classroom. I have learned that with as much planning and organization there comes in tandem a dynamic ability to adapt depending on the needs of the students. I have seen that my problem in teaching does not lie in my ability to create relationships with students or to project my voice or my handle on the Spanish language, but lies rather in my ability to be able to deviate from my own plans.
In the future I plan to work diligently and with enthusiasm on being more adaptable to my own students while still maintaining supportive relationships with them.
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