Autobiography Analysis

DIRECTIONS: Make an analysis of your autobiography by focusing on your inner teaching beliefs, values, conceptualizations, thoughts, and actions. To the effect, you may consider answering any of the following questions:

What personal or schooling experiences can be considered to be the main sources of your pedagogical knowledge?

Do you think there is link between your previous experiences as a language learner and your understanding of teaching? How could you support your answer?

How would you define the knowledge-base you have developed throughout your language teacher education and development?

How do you think your understanding of the nature of language and learning has changed over the years?

What sort of social, cultural, and political forces have shaped your changing conceptions?

Which of those beliefs, values and understandings do you think fundamentally guide your teaching practice?

Could you identify any mismatch between the way you think and the way you act in your teaching?

Do you have any special plans for your future professional growth?


DIRECTIONS: Once you have analyzed your autobiography, visit five of your colleagues´ blogs,  make an interpretation of their autobiographies, and answer the following questions:

What commonalities and differences did you find in the participants´ knowledge-base, beliefs and experiences?

How could you explain the occurrence of those commonalities and differences?


REMARK: These tasks are expected to be done in your personal blog