Biography and autobiography examples for teachers
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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 most of our time talking with people and living the way they did.
We each got to choose a topic of study for this trip, and I chose Education as mine. Through meeting with teachers and the principal of the local primary school, the value of education as a tool for change struck me hard, in addit
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Once a Schoolteacher, Always a Teacher (Autobiography, Ch. 26)
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My dreams of becoming a teacher started at a very young age. Growing up with my mom being a teacher, I knew that I wanted to follow in her footsteps. As a little girl, I have vivid 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, I 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. I witnessed countless hours spent doing report cards, all of the marking that is done outside of school time, the weight 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 I got to attend the wedding of one of her very first students, the happiness when we would run into former students, the stories she would tell of old students coming back to visit her, and even the simple love of setting up her classroom each fall to welcome in a new group of students. Having the ability to witness a