Saturday, June 27, 2009

Una nueva vida, trabajo, clases, un nuevo punto de vista.


Ha pasado mucho tiempo desde la ultima vez que escribi, sin embargo he decidido volver a hacerlo pero con un afán nuevo, el de reflexionar y el de meditar de aquellas cosas elementales que a uno como joven profesional le trae la vida. Despues de la preparación ardua y constante que me dio la universidad, aprendi que la vida es mas que eso, supe el como la teoría no es posible llevarla por completo a la practica , mas aun cuandose trata de enseñar y formar futruras personas, aun así siento que queda mucho más por dar a esta nueva vida que es la de el ser un profesor formador, que lucha por hacer prevalecer ese punto de vista idealista de lo que significa educar a niños, asunto muchas veces complicado por el contexto y las personas de distinta vision con las que uno se debe relacionar. Aun asi puedo decir que como profesor con miras hacia un futuro mejor me siento confiado y capaz de hacer surgir a este sistema, sin criticarlo ni decir que es malo, solo anhelando hacerlo mejor.
El ser un buen profesor implica amar la carrera, querer educar, querer formar.
Siempre teniendo un punto de vista optimista con respecto a lo que significa el vivir, he también aprendido que existen personas en algún lugar que estan dispuestas a recibir un infinito cariño, un infinito abrazo y un amor aterno de forma reciproca y verdadera, pues la vida no es solo un pañuelo de lágrimas, también existen esos momentos en los que te sientes grande, en lo que te sientes importante, y mas aún por aquella persona a la que quieres y deseas. Si bien la felicidad puede resultar una utopía, los momentos alegres y felices existen, por eso deben ser aprovechados con pasión y lealtad al máximo. son visiones de un apasionado que busca el amor amando, que busca ser feliz haciendo felíz a otros, que por sobre todo trata de creer que todo en la vida puede ser mejor.

CARPE DIEM.

pensamientos dedicados a Yanara S.

Friday, November 28, 2008

My final conclusion

Considering that this is my last post, I wanted to show a very special picture where appears my best friends and I outside a rock concert, this photo represents the two most important things in my life "friendship" and "passion" things that are going to be very important for my future life ,where I should teach and reflect these values to my students as a good teacher.
Now, according to the blog I have to say that it was something very useful and interesting for me, because through the creation of all my posts I was exposed to improve my communicative and thinking skills.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Felipe's presentation "Cartoons, TV and video games"


The last presentation was carried out by my classmate and good friend Felipe, he chose a very interesting and original topic named "Cartoons, TV and video games"; mainly, he tried to explain how through cartoons, TV and video games is possible to teach English to young learners.
Felipe, also gave some examples like Pokemon that means "pocket monsters", through this Japanese cartoons, is possible to recognize some hidden words in the name of the characters like "Ekans" = Snake, or "Arboc" = Cobra. The other way to understand and learn new words in English is through video games, according to what Felipe said, people is more exposed to use English through video games because usually, video games are played in its original language (English).
I think that a future teacher of English as me, needs to know all these interesting issues for children and teenagers, the idea is to give a stimulating and interesting teaching process where everyone can feel motivated by English language.

Claudio's presentation "Role playing games in education"


The third presentation of our last lesson was made by my old friend Claudio.
Claudio spoke about "Role playing games in education", I know that he is a lover of this kind of games that is the reason why I could understand his original topic, anyway, trough this presentation, Claudio explained some different aspects about role games, and how it can be used in order to motivate the students to use their imagination and some academical skills at the same time.
Personally, I do not like this kind of games, but indirectly Claudio gave me an incredible advice "teach playing and you will be giving a significative teaching".

Evelin's presentation "Teacher Burnout"


The second presentation of this season was carried out by Evelin. She chose "Teacher Burnout" as her topic to present.
Through her presentation, was possible to understand that "Teacher Burnout" is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress, bad conditions to work and conflicts with colleagues, administration and parents.
Evelin, also explained some symptoms of "Teachers Burnout" and its treatments.
On my personal opinion, this kind of information can be very useful for a teacher who wants to keep his or her health. The idea is to prevent "Teacher Burnout" early.

My own presentation: "Communication: the base for a good relation between parents and children"

Finally, the last class was my opportunity to present a new topic. I decided to talk about Communication as the base for a good relation between parents and children. I chose this topic thinking on the first process of education at home, where parents are the main influence to guide their children for a good way.
In my presentation, I also explained to my classmates some advantages and ideas to keep a good relation with children; for example: saying "I love you" or "you are the most important priority in my life" to your children, you can improve your relation and confidence with they.
This presentation was made using some information from Internet and my personal opinion about it. I think that the personal opinion is something very important to consider, because the idea is not just to repeat something from Internet, the main idea is to think and explain the personal ideas and feelings.
As a conclusion, I think that my presentation was clear, precise and interactive at the same time, considering that I presented a video avoiding the excess of reading.


Rodrigo's presentation "Course Books"


Two weeks ago, Rodrigo presented his personal topic, it was about "Course books". That day, I could not be present, but that is not a good reason to ignore this matter.
According to what I knew, Rodrigo tried to explain the advantages and disadvantages of "Course books" for teachers at the moment of teaching.
For me, the advantages and disadvantages are very clear. In the case of advantages, I have to say that text books can be very useful to use new ideas and strategies to teach and evaluate but at the same time text books can affects the teachers' performance when they support the whole lesson just in a book, a good teacher must complement the use of texts with his or her own experience and knowledge.
Interesting topic, good job Rorro.