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Bryant Elena Bryant Professor Madsen EDU-200: Foundations in Education 20 October 2019 The Educational Autobiography of Elena Bryant It is said that as students we spend over 14,000 hours in a school environment, and that’s only grades K-12. To believe that my school years did not impact me in some form or fashion is very hard to fathom. Through education, we interact with likeminded people, people who have differing views than ourselves, and we learn so much about the world around us. As I have reflected back on my school years, I found myself going through many emotions as I remembered all of the ups and downs of those long 13 years. From an early age, I was exposed too many different schools, teachers, classmates, school and classroom structures, which I think influenced my views on society. From the grades K-5 I recounted my time in five different elementary schools. Beginning in third grade when a new school was built and the district lines changed I found myself adjusting to a new set of rules, teachers, classmates and even neighborhood. The houses around my new school were all brand new, not like the older ones that were included in the new boundaries, this automatically gave the assumption that I was going to school with people that had more than me. Shortly after that at the end of third grade my family relocated from Florida to Maryland. This led to new adjustment of not only schools but a new climate. I moved schools twice while we lived in Maryland, and the views were very conservative and the North vs. South seemed very prominent there. By fifth grade we had moved back to Florida so it started all over again. I certainly learned resilience and 1

Bryant to accept everyone’s differences in all of these new and different environments’ I was exposed to, and I believe this has led me to be a more empathetic person and to really look at people for who that are and not what you perceive. As I think back on my peer relationships I often wonder what it could have been had my situation been different. Moving from school to school and changing states I never had a core peer group to fall in with. I feel like I was good at making new friends wherever we went, but never anyone that I would hang onto when we moved again. Once I got to high school I was living in a middle-class neighborhood going to school with very wealthy upper-class kids. This made finding a peer group difficult because these kids all grew up together. A lot of insecurities reared up and to this day I still don’t have many friends from my school years. I believe my situation negatively affected my peer relationships. My saving grace, if you will, had to be the teachers that helped shape me and that I will never forget. The teachers that I remember right off the bat were by sixth grade teachers at Audubon Elementary in Merritt Island, FL. My math teacher, Mr. Z, was the one who taught me to play ‘around-the-world’ with multiplication facts, to the point that I really enjoyed math. That is also the year I had Mrs. Rossi, a phenomenal science teacher that to this day I stay in touch with. Unfortunately, once in high school things got a bit harder. I found myself struggling a lot in my Biology class, with a teacher that would rather call me out on my mistakes, then help me after class. A teacher had never made me cry or feel so inadequate. Then I started skipping his class because I was too embarrassed to go, and ultimately failed and ended up in a slower-paced class. To the teachers who shaped me, I thank you. 2

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