Chilean education

It is a controversial topic, politics believed that their work is enough or in some ways an advance but meanwhile we, the students of this country are waiting for a change in our education, because we realized that many institutions make a profit with the education, with lack of quality and our education has many others mistakes that students and teachers can see in the reality.

First able to make a change we must change Ley orgánica constitucional de educación or LOCE but the new law must cover many points that LGE or Ley general de educación not cover we need a deep change but maybe LGE for the beginning is not bad I am a very optimistic person and I believed that now in the futures things will change and we as a teachers are responsible of those changes.

Leadership

It was the last presentation and Fernanda, Rodrigo and Felipe show us the difference between Leadership and Management because are things very different but its goes together in a lesson plan, the teacher needs have this two characteristics at the moment to face a course. They made us participate distinguish between leadership or management here we can practice the definitions that the gave us at the beginning of the class. They made a very good work I enjoy their presentation.

Classroom management II

In this presentation Daniela and Evelyn talked about almost the same tips presented in the last classroom management presentation, the tips for improve ours lessons, our attitude, eyes contact, fluency.

They show us a very powerful power point with lots of colors, and very well organized, this presentation was a really micro lesson because they made us participate in the lesson.

Trouble adolescents at school

Nowadays we are facing a deep change in the adolescents specially between 12- 19 they try to look different to their pairs, they put make up in their faces, they wear strange clothes and all of them try to take place between their friends imposing their styles.
I think it is a problem because they adapt their style too to the clothes of their school and according to my outlook they do not look good, and I consider that maintain a discipline at school must be in the behavior and too in an acceptable appearance, because most of students use perforation and expansions in their bodies, and I think is not an ornament to use with the clothes of the school.

Concerning to the presentation made for Paula, M. Teresa and Marlene they talked about the common problems of the adolescents the causes, as contexts, family, affection or lack of this, and other factors that are very important in the life of an adolescent. For me the most important thing that an adolescent need is comprehension and limits too and try to balance this two factors because I live this period almost recently but now I fell that I am an adult because when you have a son or daughter things change and you naturally begin to think different don’t caring your age. Sometimes when your parents are extremely apprehensive you try to fight against them (as me) and the relationship is thick but when parents made a good balance between comprehension, limits, affection, permission the relationship is more open I know that is difficult but nothing is impossible.

LIFE

Today Mr. Littman show us a flash where a man create in his desk a world

First he chooses a ball that represents a world then he creates the nature, animals, humans, buildings but when the buildings appears, appears the problems, violence, murders, pollution, and the typical problems that we are suffering nowadays, but it was a disposable world and the man throw it in a garbage can where there were others planets failed.

I think that if we could throw our world many years ago was be in a garbage can, because our quality of life related to health, peace, love, nature (global warming)and many values is depressing, and the only way or solution that I find is begin in our houses, teaching real values, teaching the importance to no waste water, food, electricity, teaching as much as we can to our children about the importance to live in a clean world, I think if we teach that we could harvest in the future.

Bullying

“Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others, through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. Although the UK currently has no legal definition of bullying, some US states have laws against it. Bullying is usually done to coerce others by fear or threat.”

Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying

Bullying is popular outrage, this kind of behaviors are more common in school this topic was presented by Pedro, Fabian and Claudio, they talk about the meaning of this word and then they explained their causes and our labor as a parents and as a teachers.

People that suffer this kind of situations have a lot of bad consequences in the future, because they live with the grief in silence and isolation. So our labor as adults is crucial and we must pay attention to ours students or children.

This topic is an old one, but now with Internet, cell phones with camera, and other resources is more well-known and we can be more informed about what kinds of steps we must take.

Teacher’s personality

Our presentation was about this topic:

The teacher is the most powerful person in the classroom and there are many ways for the teacher to use that power.
here there are some tips that can help us in the future
- First able the teacher must be a manager so he / she needs to be organized specially with contents and extra-material and must be secure because if learners feel safe, they will be more able to take part in the lesson
- The teacher must be a model and a guidance, a model because learners need to be shown new things and shown how to do new things and a guidance because learners need a helping hand to discover new things and to practice new skills.
- The teacher must be a friend and counselor, if we know more about children we can give them more tools or sometimes understanding maybe our student has a problem and we can represent a help for him, so we must show empathy with learners.

Learners need sources of extra information about what they are learning and the role of the teacher is must be an informant, too we must give a feedback because students need to know about their accuracy or about their mistakes.

Is fundamental that teacher knows the limits, mainly his/ her limits related to the contexts of the school and too according their own patience, because in some cases according my experience, with the time teachers tend to be more and more flexible and I think the quality of the contents that you are teaching lose the meaning. When you can’t control the behavior, and students don’t respect the teacher you can’t do many things and none lesson has sense.