Debate about L.O.C.E

The last class, our classmates, Rodrigo, Nicole, Dreny and Eduardo, made the first debate about L.O.C.E (ley orgánica constitucional de educación).

As an introduction, Nicole and Dreny explained some aspects and bases of this educational law. In my opinion, they were very clear in their explanations trying to do special emphasis on the most important aspects of this law.

After that, Rodrigo and Eduardo started the debate; where they gave us different ideas about the advantages and disadvantages of this law. The idea was to organize the class in two different groups where each one of them had to be agree or disagree with this law at the moment of debating.

I think, that this debate was very useful for us, because through its dinamic was possible to express our ideas, knowledge and opinions about our actual education, espontaneously.

Objectives and Debate

Objectives
The last class, Mr. Litman made us discuss about the objectives of his subject.
To know and understand the main objectives of Mr. Litman's subject is necessary to have a clear vision about the use of English language and its importance.
Mr. Litman, specifically wants to help us to increase our level and use of English through, micro-lessons, vocabulary and developing our analytical and cognitive skills to express our personal opinions and feelings, this last point is the most important, because, expressing aloud our feeling and opinions we are training our abilities of communication in a better way.

About Debate
In the second part of the lesson, we started to disscuss about the importance of debate in teaching.
For me, debate is a very good tool to practice English using the cognitive skills at the same time, because through this kind of activities, we can be able to develop our critical skills, knowing more global information and knowledge.
A debate is also an incredible oportunity to defend our presonal ideals using our own information and opinion which are always important.
Finally, is important to say that an active participation in a debate can be a very useful experience for people in different aspects like: self esteem and comradeship.
Doubtlessly, debates are an excellent way to teach.

About Blogs

Two lessons ago, we went to the English laboratory, where we were updating and cheking our blogs, its content and grammar.

I think, that Mr. Litman's idea about working on the blog in the lesson was incredible, because we could discuss some topics, add extra information and check the grammar mistakes in a better way with our mutual collaboration.

Education, Students and Parents

The last Tuesday, Mr Litman gave us an interesting paper about public students' demostrations for a good and equal education.

In the paper, appeared a good example of one of the most traditional public schools of Chile "Instituto Nacional" where the students began to do some strikes and riots to be heard by the authorities, their idea is to obtain a real change in the general education law (L.G.E) to increase the level of our actual educational system, that is the reason why they are deciding to organize a huge demostration throughout the country as two years ago.

For me, our actual education is a very important matter, because that is the only one way to abtain a better ecucation and more qualified professionals for Chile.

In the second part of the lesson, we went to the laboratory where we could visit the website of "la tercera" newspaper. In this website, we were focused in an interesting article about "new strategies of parents" to know about children's behaviour, and their performance at the school.

In my opinion, the permanent attention of parents in their children's life is very important to orient them in a good way, but I think that the use of strategies of websites is not the best option, because the most important for parents and children is just communication.

If we have a close and empathic relation with our children, we will be able to understand their reality directly, without using an external guide.

Troubled Adolescent at school

Today, our classmates, Paula, Ma Teresa and Marlene, made an interesting presentation about "troubled adolescent at school".
I think that this is a very important matter to know for a future teacher as me, because understanding the process of changes in the brain and body of teenagers I would be able to understand their behaviour in a good and empathetic way.

Through girl's presentation I could understand why some teenagers tend to present some problems in their behaviour, where, their life experiences (influence of family), growing process (poverty) and context (socio-cultural) are the most important factors.

Some times, the influence of the environment represents a huge risk in the life of teenagers, incentivating the abuse of alcohol, drugs and other negative elements for their healt. In the beginning, these things can be fun and interesting for a young person but in some moment their results can be really detrimental, causing suicides and violence.
Finally, girl's presentation finished with an interesting activity, where we had to think in a good solution for two cases of "troubled adolescent at school". For me, this activity was the most interesting and fun stage of their presentation, because through these examples, I could think like a real teacher who faces the students' problems.

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".