Bullying II

Today, Katerinne and Nadia made a constructive presentation about bullying, where they gave some examples about victims and agressors, describing their psychological profile at the same time.

Bullying, can be manifested in different ways, the most common are "physical violence" used by boys and "psyhcological violence" by girls.

Bullying & mass media

Nowadays, mass medias are being used by teenagers to bully their victims through web cameras, photos and internet. I think that this is a problem that we have to face as future teachers, because our labour won't be just teach our subject, we will have to avoid aggressions between our students too.

As a conclusion, I have to say that this presentation, was very useful for me, because, through its contents and examples I could make my own ideas about how to act in a specific situation of bullying as a teacher.

Leadership

This last Tuesday, we could enjoy of an interesting microlesson about "leadership", our classmates Rodrigo, Felipe and Fernanda made a clear explanation about how to be a good leader.
A good leader is always an innovative, original and dreamer person who thinks that feelings of people are the most important issue, this is really important to know, because we must understand that as future teachers of English we will have to act as a possitive leader for our students.
With this presentation, I could also understand that as a future teacher I don`t have to act as an administrator, because an administrator tends to be a conventional person who is not able to understand the importance of near relationships with the rest of people.
"A good teacher must be a friend and a confident".

classroom management II

On this lesson, our classmates, Daniela and Evelin had to speak about classroom management, as the previous presentation of this topic they showed some strategies to have a good performance as teachers. In general, the presentation was clear and interesting and its content can be considered as a complement of the previous one.

"A good teacher is not who knows a lot of his/her topic, a good teacher is who is able to teach in a good and significative way".

Bullying

Finally, the last class, my group and I exposed about bullying. This was a very interesting investigation for me, because I could know more about this topic, for example, now I know that bullying is an attitude adopted by some people who tend to use violence to have what they want.

Bullying and Students

In the case of students, we gave some reasons about why some of them are violent with their classmates, the absence of parent and values were the most important aspects for this reality.
Obviously, bullying is a serious problem for our actual education, and its consequences can affect the personality of agressors and victims. In some moment the agressor can feel that no one person accepts him, because an agressor tend to present huge problems of socialization, in the case of the victim, they can feel that they are not important for the rest of people, they can experiment frustration and sadness.
When a child is an agressor or victim of bullying, at the school, the role of family and teachers is very important, because through their life`s lessons full of values and ideas of justice, is possible to avoid and eliminate the injustice and violence.
"School and family are the most important base of our actual society".

Our reality

After girls' presentation, Mr. Litman showed to us a short video about the reality of our planet named "LIFE". This video was really interesting for me, because it reflected how our world has been changed in a bad way for the human attitude.

In the beginning of this video was possible to watch a happy world without stress and negative human influeces, this example made me feel angry and sad, because that was a world that today don't exist, after that, the video showed the actual reality step by step, a world with a huge pollution, violence and rude people everywhere.

With Mr. Litman's video, I just want to know if our planet and society will be able to have some good future.

Teacher's personality

The last class, our classmates Dreny, Nicole and Katherine made an interesting presentation about teacher's personality, trough their explanations and examples was possible to understand how must a teacher interact with his or her students.

Is important to say that a good teacher have to understand that each one student is able to learn in different ways, that is the reason why as future teachers of English, we have to be prepared to face a lot of different realities in the classroom. When a student is not motivated and understood by his or her teacher, probably he or she is going to have some problems to learn and study.

Our classmates, also showed to us a short video about a student with a lot of problems to learn, in the beggining, the teacher was not able to understand that this student was surrounded of different problems, without consider this, the teacher thought that this boy was a complete lazy person, but when the teacher knew about his problems, their relation changed, the teacher began to act as an important support in his life, the student's marks increased and he was a succeded person in the future.

As a conclusion I can say that this presentation was excellent in its content and message. For me, as a future teacher is completely important to know the importance of an empathetic and significative attitude in the classroom.