My daughter: Martina

I would like to include in my blog an entrance about my daughter, we had not the opportunity to have a personal interview and for that reason for me is necessary talk about the most important person in my life and the girl who give me every day the strength to continue and fight for my goals that obviously most of them are for she.

She was born in 2006 when I was in my second year of university; it was very difficult to cope first able with my parents’ reaction because they felt very disappointed and then when Martina born cope with the university because she was born in May, and deal with my duties as mother until nowadays. My mother is a great support in my life and my daughter’s life, she take care my daughter when I have to go to the university and when I have to work.

My daughter now is two years and six moths and I feel very proud with any achievement or mischief that she made. I can describe in words all the love that I feel for her maybe only a father or mother could understand what I am talking about.

Role play in education

This presentation was carried out by Claudio, he talked about how we can teach through role play games the idea is that the student assume the role of fictional character according to the presentation that Claudio carried out role play was created in late 60’ and are more than 400 different games in dozen.
ROLE PLAY GAMES helps students to put themselves in complex situations to make situations with no real danger or traumatic experiences.
Claudio looked very self-confidence with their insolence that he is characterized.

Femicide and violence is not fashionable

This presentation was made by Kathy, she talked about Femicide is not something fashionable she talked in a different way about femicide because she reflect femicide into the advertisement and in what way these kind of violent advertisement affect the relationship between men and women, and specially how it will affect in children in the future with their couples because if we analyze television programs as cartoons, series, and many other that nowadays we can see women are used as sexual objects, and no only in television, too as Katy said in different advertisement of important brands.
So we must be careful with what kind of things see our children and always talk about this topic, education and communication about all of this topics and others, is very important to develop in our children values and common sense and why not educate a big person.

Course books

This presentation was made by Rodrigo Ortiz, he made a very clear and self-confident presentation and too he chose a very interesting topic.
Course books are very familiar for us, for example this year we worked all the period with a book named Fast Track to FCE, the purpose of this book is prepare students for and specific exam.
Rodrigo talked about the advantages and disadvantages to use a course book, maybe referring to the only course book that I know I can say that I do not feel prepared to do the FCE exam because the exam has different items and in the book these appears only few times and we did not do (from my point of view) enough essays of the exam.
So I think that the best way to prepare for an exam is doing essays but as the real exam is, I think is the same way as PSU doing essays you can feel more prepared to do it.

The end of the year's stress.. My turn!!

I talked about what happens with the end of the year's stress and how as a teacher we can face and cope with it, because the end of the year is approaching for many of us, we are next to give the exams… :S

Stress:
Is the body’s reaction to a change that requires a physical, mental or emotional adjustment or response.

I made a very short presentation, and I gave to my classmates some tips that I found interesting, as;
- Have a positive attitude, you might be dealing with an unmovable bureaucracy, an unsupportive parent, or a belligerent parent; they cannot affect your feeling or make you angry.
- Do not try to accomplish too many tasks in one day.
- Get plenty of sleep.
- Leave your teaching at school as often as possible.
- Find things to laugh at; watch a funny movie, tell a joke, etc.

5 reasons to become a teacher :)

1. Teaching a Subject Helps You Learn a Subject
You will never learn a topic better than when you start teaching it and the student questions just made you dig deeper and learn more. There is an old adage that it takes three years of teaching to truly master a subject and in my experience this is the truth.

2. Daily Humor
If you have a positive attitude and a sense of humor, you will find things to laugh about each day. Sometimes it will be silly jokes you will make up as you teach that might get a laugh from your students. Sometimes it will be jokes that kids share with you. And sometimes students will come out with the funniest statements without realizing what they've said. Find the fun and enjoy it!

3. Affecting the Future
Yes it might be trite, but it is true. Teachers mold the future each day in class. In fact, it is a sad fact that you will see some of these students more consistently day-to-day than their parents will.

4. Staying Younger
Being around young people everyday will help you remain knowledgeable about current trends and ideas. It also helps break down barriers.

5. Summers Off
You will have a couple of months off in the summer where you can choose to get another job, teach summer school, or just relax and vacation, which can really be a huge benefit and provide much needed rest time, and obviously to share with your children because they have the same holidays as you.

Gender bias at school

“Gender bias is difficult to detect because it affects girls and boys in different ways. In school, it is the boys who may be expected to “act out” and rebel at school work, while the girls are expected to be docile, conforming and willing to work hard" (Sadker 1994)

Fernanda decided to talk about this interesting and different topic, we as a future teacher must try to cover all the different situations ( that I am sure this will be a great number) and try to face them and resolve it, one of them is change the vocabulary in our classroom creating a good atmosphere with inclusive and specific vocabulary like:

mankind; humanity, humankind, human civilization, man-made: synthetic, manufactured, artificial, imitation.
businessman: executive, wholesaler, business person. cameraman: camera operator, techniciancongressman: member of Congress, representative. craftsman: carpenter, artisan, skilled craftworkerlandlord: land owner, property manager.

Fernanda made a very good presentation with self-confidence and enough research of the topic with relevant and interesting information.