REFLECTION ABOUT THE THREE TENETS
PAULO FREIRE: Pedagogy of the Autonomy.
- "... el que enseña aprende a enseñar y quien aprende enseña al aprender".
The teacher learns how to teach only when he/she makes a reflection of his/her practice. Questioning everyday about the way he/she teaches teaches makes his/her "didáctica" and process of teaching a constant construction of good choices and ways of transmiting knowledge, values, and everything concerning education. The one who learns from this person not only can have the possibilities to teach its pairs, but will teach a lot to its teacher, who will have the records of how to teach, implementing these strategies to all the students he/she has, and can keep within his/her spirit all the thoughts that he/she has had in order to grow as a better human being.
- Being a teacher means to make students construct a spirit of investigation, making them critic and autonomous in their own learning, constructing a good basis to their thinking.
- The teacher must not transmit information as if it was the absolute true. The teacher must transform a student from its naivity to its criticism. The teacher´s information must guide the student through the path of truth in order to transform students´ minds in order to make them productive social beings, acting because they know what they are doing, and not because they are being controled by a superior being, called teacher or society. It permits them being critic persons.
- "El maestro debe saber escuchar para poder profundizar el arte de la docencia... tú como maestro debes ser el primero en escuchar".
In order to be heard, we teachers must be good listeners and have always the student in our minds. For us teachers, the students are always first.
- The teacher must not be an insecure person. A teacher that lacks of reliability shows incompetent to most of his/her activities. Reliability helps us in our classes to have respect from our students. A teacher is someone who must be improving and increasing its knowledge and its discourse. The one who doesn´t learn new things and doesn´t acquire new knowledge, doesn´t deserve to practice its profession.
KUMARAVADIVELU, Conceptualizing teaching acts.
Teaching is basically a subjective activity carried out in an organized way. Experience is the only real reference point teachers share. This divides into three diferent steps: 1) Experiences as students: this influence their views of teaching, 2) Experiences when they are preparing to be professionals, and 3) experiences as members of the society. Thanks to these three steps the teacher becomes a better human being in its personal formation.
The entire edifice of education, however is constructed on the foundation that teaching can contribute to an accelerated and accomplished learning. There are proofs showing that there can be learning with no teaching, but teaching does help to accelerate and accomplish learning. Teachers are the ones that give shape to the learning process of the students in the classroom.
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.
GIROUX, Teachers as transformative intellectuals.
The teachers of public schools are not being took into account as active participants in educative reforms. The teachers are just executors of the "thoughts" of some people who don´t practise the act of teaching. Those people are: experts in syllabus, evaluation and instruction.
According to the planning of academic programs, the teachers should be the most important persons to be taken into account to execute this job. Teachers can reflect on the problems found in the classroom in order to give solutions to those problems in acritic way in order to make those problems disappear step by step fron the classroom. Those reflections should be made by teachers for teachers, taking into account that they are the ones who are in contac with the learning process of the students.
Teachers should be educated with the capacity of analizing critically the school problems. The education programs for teachers are losing the focus of educating teachers to be critic analysts. There should be positive changes in this area in order to make teachers better prepared to find solutions to the classroom problems.
Teachers as reflective professionals of teaching. Integrating the human capacity of thinking and practice make teachers the more accurate persons to develop an appropriate work of reflecting about the classroom´s issues.
Teachers as intellectuals:
- They analize every human activity.
- They examine their own work and start having the capacity of criticizing theories and ideologies.
- They are capable of criticizing their own labor as teachers.
- Being a teacher means to make students construct a spirit of investigation, making them critic and autonomous in their own learning, constructing a good basis to their thinking.
- The teacher must not transmit information as if it was the absolute true. The teacher must transform a student from its naivity to its criticism. The teacher´s information must guide the student through the path of truth in order to transform students´ minds in order to make them productive social beings, acting because they know what they are doing, and not because they are being controled by a superior being, called teacher or society. It permits them being critic persons.
- "El maestro debe saber escuchar para poder profundizar el arte de la docencia... tú como maestro debes ser el primero en escuchar".
In order to be heard, we teachers must be good listeners and have always the student in our minds. For us teachers, the students are always first.
- The teacher must not be an insecure person. A teacher that lacks of reliability shows incompetent to most of his/her activities. Reliability helps us in our classes to have respect from our students. A teacher is someone who must be improving and increasing its knowledge and its discourse. The one who doesn´t learn new things and doesn´t acquire new knowledge, doesn´t deserve to practice its profession.
KUMARAVADIVELU, Conceptualizing teaching acts.
Teaching is basically a subjective activity carried out in an organized way. Experience is the only real reference point teachers share. This divides into three diferent steps: 1) Experiences as students: this influence their views of teaching, 2) Experiences when they are preparing to be professionals, and 3) experiences as members of the society. Thanks to these three steps the teacher becomes a better human being in its personal formation.
The entire edifice of education, however is constructed on the foundation that teaching can contribute to an accelerated and accomplished learning. There are proofs showing that there can be learning with no teaching, but teaching does help to accelerate and accomplish learning. Teachers are the ones that give shape to the learning process of the students in the classroom.
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.
GIROUX, Teachers as transformative intellectuals.
The teachers of public schools are not being took into account as active participants in educative reforms. The teachers are just executors of the "thoughts" of some people who don´t practise the act of teaching. Those people are: experts in syllabus, evaluation and instruction.
According to the planning of academic programs, the teachers should be the most important persons to be taken into account to execute this job. Teachers can reflect on the problems found in the classroom in order to give solutions to those problems in acritic way in order to make those problems disappear step by step fron the classroom. Those reflections should be made by teachers for teachers, taking into account that they are the ones who are in contac with the learning process of the students.
Teachers should be educated with the capacity of analizing critically the school problems. The education programs for teachers are losing the focus of educating teachers to be critic analysts. There should be positive changes in this area in order to make teachers better prepared to find solutions to the classroom problems.
Teachers as reflective professionals of teaching. Integrating the human capacity of thinking and practice make teachers the more accurate persons to develop an appropriate work of reflecting about the classroom´s issues.
Teachers as intellectuals:
- They analize every human activity.
- They examine their own work and start having the capacity of criticizing theories and ideologies.
- They are capable of criticizing their own labor as teachers.
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