Synthesis
The vocation of being a teacher is something that must be inside us all. Besides teaching just a subject, the teacher should teach values, costumes and everything needed to transform a mere person into a human being.
The act of teaching should be equated with the act of being maternal. A mother takes care of her children as if they were the only beings on earth, that way, the teacher should care about its students, as flowers in a garden, as its only beings on earth, to grow them, teach them, educate them.
But as the role of the teacher is to teach, he/she, besides educating the students, must know its subject matter in order to be homogeneous.
Knowing the subject to teach in the classroom is one of the most important things in an educative institution in order to reach goals proposed by the own institution or the society itself. It is impossible to turn a blind eye about the reality of some of our classrooms, in which the teachers are not competent in the subject matter, for example, English in some elementary schools.
High school and university teachers, along with teachers in formation, can help this society´s goals providing quality education in order to have better and competent citizens that help with the country´s progress.
But teachers´ competences in their subject matter are not the only thing needed in the classrooms to build progress.
One important thing a student must have is the capacity of being critic, a student who always reflect, about the issues of everything that surronuds him/her; a student that proposes solutions to a specefic problem; a student who writes its own thoughts in order to have records of its improvement. The students´ role in the classroom is not passive, or just a person who receives information, because teaching is not only transferring information. The students should not get used to that, going beyond, forcing the teacher to be more active in the classroom, squeezing every teacher´s last drop.
But everything that happens in the classroom must be coherent with what teachers teach and do. They should be active participants in educative reforms.
A teacher should not be just an executor of the thoughts of people who are not immerse in the classroom´s reality. A teacher must be reflective, critic with the school problems; must be an active developer of class planning. A teacher must have clear if what he/she does is vocation or if it is just a job, a work or an occupation.
VOCABULARY
Vocation means "to call." Vocation as a summons of bidding to be of service.
Job: activity that provides sutenance or survival by highly repetitive tasks. (Hansen)
Work: being autonomous, but doesn´t imply being of service to others.
Occupation: an endeavor harbored within a society´s economic, social, and political system.
The act of teaching should be equated with the act of being maternal. A mother takes care of her children as if they were the only beings on earth, that way, the teacher should care about its students, as flowers in a garden, as its only beings on earth, to grow them, teach them, educate them.
But as the role of the teacher is to teach, he/she, besides educating the students, must know its subject matter in order to be homogeneous.
Knowing the subject to teach in the classroom is one of the most important things in an educative institution in order to reach goals proposed by the own institution or the society itself. It is impossible to turn a blind eye about the reality of some of our classrooms, in which the teachers are not competent in the subject matter, for example, English in some elementary schools.
High school and university teachers, along with teachers in formation, can help this society´s goals providing quality education in order to have better and competent citizens that help with the country´s progress.
But teachers´ competences in their subject matter are not the only thing needed in the classrooms to build progress.
One important thing a student must have is the capacity of being critic, a student who always reflect, about the issues of everything that surronuds him/her; a student that proposes solutions to a specefic problem; a student who writes its own thoughts in order to have records of its improvement. The students´ role in the classroom is not passive, or just a person who receives information, because teaching is not only transferring information. The students should not get used to that, going beyond, forcing the teacher to be more active in the classroom, squeezing every teacher´s last drop.
But everything that happens in the classroom must be coherent with what teachers teach and do. They should be active participants in educative reforms.
A teacher should not be just an executor of the thoughts of people who are not immerse in the classroom´s reality. A teacher must be reflective, critic with the school problems; must be an active developer of class planning. A teacher must have clear if what he/she does is vocation or if it is just a job, a work or an occupation.
VOCABULARY
Vocation means "to call." Vocation as a summons of bidding to be of service.
Job: activity that provides sutenance or survival by highly repetitive tasks. (Hansen)
Work: being autonomous, but doesn´t imply being of service to others.
Occupation: an endeavor harbored within a society´s economic, social, and political system.
