Paradox in teaching and learning
· In the teaching world we face all the time
a kind of “suffering”, there are many ways in which I, as a student-teacher
have faced it. Just to say something about it I going to mention one:
Sometimes I could see that one way in which
I face a kind of suffering is when the students are not doing what I ask for. Then
a kind of question comes to me and say me ¿how can I do, in order to solve this
situation?
On my personal opinion all the “suffering
situations” have a kind of redemption way and it is due to the issue in which
we learn from our own experiences.
·
Well to
talk about my strengths and difficulties as a teacher I want to say that they
depend on my own attitude and preparation even they depend on our talent as
educators; but there are some of them:
My strengths:
ü I´m used to speaking in front of many
people, consequently is a little easy handle the nerves.
ü I love to involve and keep my students´
attention trough different activities like: warm ups, games, funny tasks in
which they can develop their language skills etc.
My
troubles:
ü To make material because I´m not too good in
drawing or doing crafts.
ü I´m not too patient.
I understand that both my strengths and troubles are
related in the way in which I need to increase and use my strengths to overcome
my troubles. Thus my strengths are the things that I´m already able to do and
my troubles are the things that I need to overcome through using of my
strengths.
One moment in which I remember that I was thinking
that I really love to teach was when most of my students were engaged with the
class. All of them were paying attention and asking some questions.
On the other hand the worst moment in my teaching experience
was at the very beginning when nobody wanted to stay in the class and I remember
that I was thinking about myself as a teacher and a question came to me ¿Am I
doing well?
The space should welcome both
silence and speech:
We, as teachers, must take into account both of them
for example:
The classroom must invite the students to participate
this is due the classroom environment, and on the other hand to keep the
silence when it is necessary.
