"The forever student is the best teacher", a phrase that I usually hear. But what does it mean?
My name is Constanza and I am a studying to be an English Teacher. To be honest, I took this course because of my desire to improve in English, and not because of the teaching part. However, I have been discovering new ways of seeing the education world since I began two years ago.
"Overwhelmed" is the perfect adjective to describe a person who is about to become a teacher, maybe because of the huge piles of didactic and pedagogical materials to read in order to apply them later on in whatever your tutor asks you to do. Practical works, exams, practice and more practice. Sometimes, you do not like what you are "trying" to understand in that piece of paper and you sometimes think to give up doing it. Sometimes you feel that you can not learn all of those concepts and remember them when you are in front of thirty pairs of eyes looking at you.
You complain about all of that saying that it is too much, but it is never too much. Four years are not enough to prepare yourself to be THE teacher. It is important to keep you reading, discovering, trying out, reflecting about your experiencies and taking the profession seriously, even if you are still student or teacher. You need to know about your students, the contexts, the institutions, the subject, but especially about how important your rol is in the society.
Never stop learning, a good teacher can change the world.
My name is Constanza and I am a studying to be an English Teacher. To be honest, I took this course because of my desire to improve in English, and not because of the teaching part. However, I have been discovering new ways of seeing the education world since I began two years ago.
"Overwhelmed" is the perfect adjective to describe a person who is about to become a teacher, maybe because of the huge piles of didactic and pedagogical materials to read in order to apply them later on in whatever your tutor asks you to do. Practical works, exams, practice and more practice. Sometimes, you do not like what you are "trying" to understand in that piece of paper and you sometimes think to give up doing it. Sometimes you feel that you can not learn all of those concepts and remember them when you are in front of thirty pairs of eyes looking at you.
You complain about all of that saying that it is too much, but it is never too much. Four years are not enough to prepare yourself to be THE teacher. It is important to keep you reading, discovering, trying out, reflecting about your experiencies and taking the profession seriously, even if you are still student or teacher. You need to know about your students, the contexts, the institutions, the subject, but especially about how important your rol is in the society.
Never stop learning, a good teacher can change the world.
Nice words :)
ResponderEliminarJust like Albert Einstein said “once you stop learning you start dying”
Thanks for sharing