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.

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.

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.

Kathy's presentation "Femicide is not fashionable"

The second presentation of this season was made by katherine, she decided to talk about "Femicide" a very serious topic that day to day is more present in our social context where a lot woman are killed by their stupid couples. Katherine, did not just talk about femicide, she explained how this actual society is accepting this kind of behaviour as some common and normal, her example was about a jeans brand that promote its products through images where girls were hurt by bad boys.

Personally, femicide is something that makes me feel angry, I do not why some men hurts their couples up to kill them, it is something that must stop, because our society needs peace and good coexistence inside the familiar nucleus; what would happen if our children grows in a violent environment, where commit aggressions against couples is something common? are we going to have a good future as a society?, these are questions that everyone of us must try to answer.

In general, good presentation and good topic.

Nicole's presentation "stress at the end of the year"

Today, Nicole presented about "stress at the end of the year". Through her presentation, was possible to understand how a student have to face this hard period, where exams and excess of job are the worst enemies for a tired person.
Obviously, stress is something really hard to face when we are exhausted, but Nicole gave us some interesting ideas to face it; for example: do not taking the problems of the school to home, and try to adopt a positive attitude to avoid mental fatigue.
Considering that we are facing a really hard end of year, where the excessive obligations are destroying our bodies and mind, I can say that Nicole's presentation was really useful to reload our energies to finish this year in a good way.
As a short conclusion is possible to say: good and precise presentation, good job Nicole!!!

Estatuto docente: Una tragedia peor que el transantiago

The second topic that Mr.Litman recommended to us to investigate, was "Estatuto docente: Una tragedia peor que el transantiago", this is a meticulous revision of our education made by a professor of the Universidad de Chile, named Mario Waissbluth. This professor says that our educational system is experimenting a gradual deterioration where anyone person can be a teacher taking simple courses of pedagogy through internet, obviously, this way to obtain a proffesional title of teacher is not the best at the moment of speak of professional competences, I mean, that maybe, they can have the title of teacher, but their skills and general knowledge is something very uncertain.

Maybe that is the reason why most of these teachers do not want to be evaluated, without consider that they are harming our national education, or specifically our public education where day to day, the differences with the private education is clearer and unfair for the students.

On my personal opinion, the ideas of Mr.Waissbluth are something to consider, because education must be one of the most important matters in our country, where its equality and quality should be a right for everyone student who wants to learn.

If you want to know more about the ideas of Mr. Waissbluth, you can look at the complete article in the next link:

http://www.quepasa.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,38039290_101111578_365938381,00.html

Education 2020

The last class, Mr Litman recommended to us two new topics to investigate and post. The first one was "education 2020".

Education 2020 is a project to improve the education through the use of new technologies basically, but in Chile, education 2020, also wants to improve the academic level of everyone school and teacher through evaluations, technologies and new plans.

For me, education 2020 presents some positive and negative ideas; for example: the use of technologies and plans represents a huge consume of new resources for the government, but it is something really necessary to do. In the case of the negative ideas that Education 2020 represents for me, I have to say that evaluation for teacher is not good, I think that everyone teacher is academically well prepared to face his or her job in a good way, the problems are the conditions to work only; for example: classes with a huge number of students, and limited access to good resources to teach.

This is the official website of Education 2020 in Chile, click here and know more about it.

http://www.educacion2020.cl/

Fernanda's presentation "Gender Bias"

Today, Fernanda had also to present her topic, it was "Gender Bias" a very interesting matter for me.
Through this presentation, Fernanda gave some information and examples about what happens when "Gender Bias" is present in education.
For me, "Gender Bias" is something that must not be inside a classroom, because everyone student have the same rights than his or her classmates, that is the reason why teachers have to create a respect environment inside the classroom.

Daniela's presentation "il's in education : smartboards"

Today, Daniela made a very good and interesting presentation about the use of technologies at the school. She spoke specifically about smartboards which are incredible new boards that are able to being used as a big computer in front of the class. She explained, specifically its advantages to teach and how we can make new and interactive lessons with its use.

Personally, I think that the use of new technologies is something that must be present for every one teacher and school, because through its use is possible to improve the process of teaching and learning.

Eduardo's presentation "suicide & depression in teenagers"

After Diego's presentation, my good friend Eduardo started with his own presentation, He decided to talk about "suicide & depression in teenagers", explaining some aspects in teenagers which can be the reasons to commit suicide or experiment depression.

Eduardo, through his presentation made me feel worried about suicide & depression in teenagers, because it is something really common today, that is the reason why teenagers needs a permanent attention of the people who lives around them.

Also, Eduardo gave us a lot of useful information to identify when a teenager is manifesting some grade of depression or frustration, these two issues are vital to prevent some attempt of suicide.

As a conclusion I have to say that it was a very interesting and useful presentation, where the information was something that can be used for me and everyone of my classmates, some day as parents and teachers.

Diego's presentation "drugs & alcohol"

The last class my friend Diego started with a new season of individual presentations, where each one of us is allowed to choice a new topic. Diego decided to speak about the consequences of drugs and alcohol consume, he gave us a lot of vital information about it, explaining at the same time why these kind of elements are bad for our health and life.
I think that this kind of information can be very useful for a future teacher and father like me, because if I would want to teach to valorize the importance of a healthy life style to my children or students I will need to know about it to support my ideals and thoughts.
As a conclusion I have to say that it was an excellent presentation where Diego chose very good and concrete information, adding at the end of his presentation a short but impressive video about drugs & alcohol consequences.

Curfew for teenagers II

Finally, our classmates Claudia, Clara and Marlene showed to us the last presentation & debate of this season.
They decided to talk about "Curfew for teenagers", showing some positive and negative aspects about this way to teach responsibility and respect at home.

Honestly, I did not learn anything new about this topic, because some weeks ago I looked for some information in Internet. Anyway the presentation was clear but too short for me, I think that they had given some extra and new information to create a better environment at the moment of their presentation.

On my personal opinion, their main mistake was to chose the same topic that Mr. Litman recommended to investigate some weeks ago, I think that the best option is to chose a new topic to catch the complete attention of the classmates, but it is just my point of view.

Project Zero

Two weeks ago, Daniela, Nadia and Katherinne presented about "Project Zero". I could not be present that day, but that is not a good reason to do not investigate and post about this interesting topic .
"Project Zero" was founded in 1967 to study and improve education in and through the arts. This project says that arts should be studied as a serious cognitive activity to motivate the new communities of reflective independent learners to improve their critical and creative skills.

I think that this is a very important matter to investigate and know for a future teacher like me, because this project can be a very useful tool to motivate the students to learn more in a good way, considering, that arts are the most powerful alternative to catch the complete attention of the students.

As a conclusion is possible to say that it was a very good and interesting topic to present, "congratulations girls".

Teachers victims of bullying

The second topic that Mr. Litman gave us to post in our blogs was "Teachers victims of bullying", about this matter, I have to say that this is a huge problem which day to day is more present inside the classrooms where respect and values of the students have been disappearing.

On my personal opinion this is not a problem of the educational system only, this is a problem of the whole society where day to day teachers are experimenting more and more injustices.

I don't know why teachers must be always worried about their physical and psychological security inside the classroom, where some students feels that they can attack them in different ways without any punishment, this is something that we as a culture and society must change because the physical and emotional teachers' stability are the base to give a good education.

Curfew for teenagers. An idea that works?

The last class, Mr. Litman showed to us two different titles from the newspaper to post in our blogs , the first one was "Curfew for teenagers, an idea that works?".
About this topic, personally, I think that Curfew for teenagers is something that could work in some cases but it can be avoided with a good communication and confidence between parents and children.

Pre-Universitary courses in Chile

Last week my friend Claudio, Marlenne and Paula made their presentation about Pre-Universitary courses in Chile. They started explaining that pre-Universitary are institutions focused to prepare students to face the PSU (prueba de selección universitaria) in a good way; in their presentation, they also gave us some extra information about different courses and prices that a student can find in a huge diversity of this kind of institutions like: CEPECH, PEDRO DE VALDIVIA and FECH.
After this information, they started with the debate where the class was divided into two groups as have been usual; one of them was for pre-universitary courses and the other one was against.
Personally, I think that this presentation was really well prepared, being short and specific at the same time, but for me was a little bit boring, because the topic was not something interesting for me, and also was difficult for me to had to be for this kind of institutions at the moment of debating, because I have the idea that high schools must be the only one education before university. Anyway good presentation but boring for me.