LITERACY AUTOBIOGRAPHY & PHILOSOPHY
There is something my mom always have felt so proud about, she always tells it to her sisters and her sisters-in-law when trying to give advice regarding their own kids. “Let them do their own homework, let them be independent.” My mom said. That is the way I grew up, I would do my own homework, picked out my own clothes for the day, and even showered myself since I was about 4 years old, maybe even younger. I know she loves me regardless, but this is how she grew up, and mixed up with the Mexican culture, that gave her the belief system she needed to raised their kids.
My brother and I are 11 months apart from each other, so when we got into kindergarten my mom decided it would be better if I was retained one year so I could be with my brother and go through every stage together. The only thing that my mom did not anticipated was that I would stop doing my own work to attend my brother when he was crying because I believed no one knew how to do it better than me. For obvious reasons, I returned to my classroom and my brother stayed in the babies’ room. What I did not knew at that moment was that even at …show more content…
I may had had teachers that were really strict with me, at the moment I hated them but know, looking back, I am grateful for them and their strictness. Since I relied on them, my philosophy or belief system is really old. I like lectures where the teacher makes you write up everything they said, and when they teach you a background before going full force to the lesson. That is why I really like the Bottom-Up belief system. According to Vacca et al. (2014), “Teachers who possess a bottom-up belief system believe that students must decode letters and words before they are able to construct meaning from sentences, paragraphs, and larger text selections.” (p.38) That sums up everything I was ever taught; you cannot run if you don’t know how to walk
There is something my mom always have felt so proud about, she always tells it to her sisters and her sisters-in-law when trying to give advice regarding their own kids. “Let them do their own homework, let them be independent.” My mom said. That is the way I grew up, I would do my own homework, picked out my own clothes for the day, and even showered myself since I was about 4 years old, maybe even younger. I know she loves me regardless, but this is how she grew up, and mixed up with the Mexican culture, that gave her the belief system she needed to raised their kids.
My brother and I are 11 months apart from each other, so when we got into kindergarten my mom decided it would be better if I was retained one year so I could be with my brother and go through every stage together. The only thing that my mom did not anticipated was that I would stop doing my own work to attend my brother when he was crying because I believed no one knew how to do it better than me. For obvious reasons, I returned to my classroom and my brother stayed in the babies’ room. What I did not knew at that moment was that even at …show more content…
I may had had teachers that were really strict with me, at the moment I hated them but know, looking back, I am grateful for them and their strictness. Since I relied on them, my philosophy or belief system is really old. I like lectures where the teacher makes you write up everything they said, and when they teach you a background before going full force to the lesson. That is why I really like the Bottom-Up belief system. According to Vacca et al. (2014), “Teachers who possess a bottom-up belief system believe that students must decode letters and words before they are able to construct meaning from sentences, paragraphs, and larger text selections.” (p.38) That sums up everything I was ever taught; you cannot run if you don’t know how to walk