Educational Biography
Educational Biography: In Kindergarten through 4th grade, I mostly only spoke Spanish. Therefore, I was placed in bilingual classes at my Elementary School. As you can imagine it was difficult communicating with my fellow class mates, except when it came to math. Math being a universal language, it allowed me to speak in a sense with my fellow students while we were doing math assignments. This sparked a sort of love to math in me, Due to this wonderful experience in Elementary School. In High School I found it to be very straight forward, meaning the teachers just taught the classes and gave home work. I don’t know if the teachers I had in high school were burnt out or just that they didn’t have a passion for teaching math.
My first college math experience started at Hostos Community College. At Hostos Community College my major was Electrical Engineering and I took Calculus I, II, III, Linear Algebra and Vector Analysis, and Differential Equations. However in my last year there, I changed my major to Mathematics in which I received an Associate in Mathematics in June of 2011. What made me change my mind in regards to my major were a couple factors.
First factor, I was working as a Teaching assistant coordinator at Morris High School (International School). Basically this is where we tutored High School students in math on the weekends. Right after this experience I realized, I wanted to teach math. Second factor was that I became the Student Government President of Hostos Community College for two years; where I was exposed to Executive Management in education.
With all these great experiences I have obtain in my life, now I come to the conclusion that I want to teach math to elementary students and eventually become either a Principle or a President of a Community College. In general, I would have to say that math has been a true constant in my life. Math interest me and has always drawn me to it.
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Learning mathematics has never been my top priority, yet the pursuit to learn and discover new challenges has dominated most of my life. My educational choices were mostly influenced by the bilingual nature and particularly by the ability to speak in Spanish language. Though it was difficult to communicate with the other classmates………………..
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