EDUCATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

EDUCATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

DURING MY FIRST SEMESTER OF B.ED IN 2018. A CREATIVE WORK OF EDUCATIONAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY

SUBJECT CODE: - BED155

SUBJECT TITLE: - UNDERSTANDING THE SELF

PORTION: - UNIT 2 (WRITING TASK)

TUTORIAL INCHARGE: -MS. NAMRATA MAM. 
NAME OF STUDENT: - NAVNEET

ROLL NO. 04855602118

I have never had problems with school. As a matter of fact, I would even go so far as to say that I have enjoyed school for the better part of the twenty years or so that I have spent attending it. I cannot help but believe that my cultural background has played a crucial role in shaping my approach to schooling and my expectations of and attitudes toward it. In the remainder of this post, I will explore how my personal background, development as an individual over time, and experiences as a student have influenced my attitude towards education and prompted me to choose teaching Science as a profession.

I was raised in New Delhi, India. The first child in the family, I grew up in a socially and politically liberal home, which undoubtedly influenced my experience and expectations of school. My parents instilled in me the importance of listening to and showing respect for authority figures. In addition, I attended private school from Nursery to 5^th standard which served to strengthen the whole concept of obedience to authority. Aside from being liberal I belong to a socio-economically middle-class society and my parents were able to provide basic need for me such that i could live comfortably. 

I feel incredibly fortunate to have been raised in a family that follow moral values and believe in living and doing good with others even other don’t think good for our family. I had suffered through such experiences as divorce of my parents, separation. And, there was the typical sibling rivalry inherent in any home, but nothing to get worked up about.

From the beginning of my schooling as a kindergartner up until the early part of high school, I was the ultimate direction-follower. The teacher told the class what to do and I made sure I did it. As a child, I was quiet but ambivert. I never got into trouble at school and always had my work done the way the teacher wanted it. Having the teacher (or my parents) become upset with me was terrifying. I sought approval from all of my teachers and felt that I had let them down if I failed to complete an assignment exactly according to the directions and expectations. Teachers at this point were the so-called “sages.” They asked the questions and I tried to find the answers that they already knew.

I excelled in all of my classes, even through high school, but especially during elementary and middle school. I felt comfortable with what was expected of me, provided there were clear directions. Sharing the work would only slow me down and would lead to errors and inconsistencies that would be eliminated if I worked alone. On the whole, I felt most comfortable doing my assignments on my own. School during this period of my life was something that I did well, but it was something that I had to do. 

For most children/adolescents within this socio-economic category, you go to school so that you can get into a good college and then get a good job.  Many of my classmates began to get stressed out at about this point in our educational journey, I was also confused what to do in life after school. shifting from one school to another then to another makes me disturbed person making friend was really becoming tough for me. 

For 6 the standard I was sent to another state to study in high status private school due to my parent separation. Then I came back to Delhi to study in same school and from 9^th – 12 standard I was studied in govt. School. I have no friends I always saw life as a fast pace. But I cleared my 12^th standard with good grades but after school life I m seeing day by day the truth of life and people. 

I can’t get admission my friends got the admission even they had low percentage then me. Just because of scheduled castes. I was broke but stood again I don’t have enough money to study in private colleges but my friends studied. All of my friends studied in good colleges including both rich friends and lower caste group friends. I lost them I was good but lost in nature like a season. Too confused to think what will I do my father fill up IGNOU B.Sc form so I studied at open learning.

I never thought that I will face this three year by just living at home with no extra work I lost my all interest in studies. My family live together again but now I become burden for family because I lost interest in studies and career as well. The only thing that I want was acting as career only motive behind that the depression phase I had suffered and loneliness of life I had gone through I can come over that through this. But nobody helped me and stood by me. My father raise me as dependent child that why I m not able to took risk and face the pressure of society and life. I am just adjusting what I was given by parents and life.

I got the Delhi University colleges named as 'Swami Shradhanand' in IGNOU for study center where the only Saturday and Sunday class scheduled. Every function and whole week I spent at home with no friends. I spent my four year by just sitting in room. At the four year of graduation which gave me so stressed with no happiness.  I started thinking about all my faults and finding reason behind my failure of four year. I focused more and more on the main concept of happiness and way of living life stress free.

One day I was making an assignment in front of laptop and that to for 5 hours, that was the time I realized that I could not do that kind of job, sitting in a cubicle all day crunching numbers. It was that night that I decided I will pursue a career that include  active participation by both mind and body .  During filling up form for b.ed I was just taking risk to my life to do what I don’t want. Besides with I also fill up form for M.Sc but in b.ed I got good rank than M.Sc . I took it seriously that I have to pursue it with passionately. So I wait for all the delay faced through admission procedure in IP University.

Now I can hardly believe that my time as a “student” is almost over. Of course, teachers never really cease being students. This is a concept I never grasped when I was in elementary, middle, and high school. Learning is a lifelong process, and perhaps more so for professional educators. I can always improve my knowledge, my teaching, my learning, and my thinking. Such is my outlook as I begin to make the transition to the other side of the desk as now I am pursuing B.Ed from IP University with BLMCE LOCATED AT MANDI HOUSE.