... BoOkS...

... Last presentation was about course books and how some teachers abuse of them!!!

The course book must be a guidence not a bible......

I think that books are necesary for children... but we need them to love books.. not to hate them!!

When teachers abuse books children notice that the teacher is unable to give a class without the text... they realized that the teacher is not good or creative enough.. and of course children get bored....

We must encourage children to love books, to know how to use them ... because books provide structure, are reliable and provide confidence to children...

Stress at the end of the year................ something that affects us all!!!

Through my teaching practice I could face stress.... Students are not the same after "Fiestas Patrias"... they look tired... they arrive later....their faces look different...and you know that they are tired!!!

Teachers suffer from stress also!! and we have to work with the stress students...and that can be a problem if we do not know how to manage stress!!!

Nicole gave a useful presentation about how to cope with stress... she also gave us some tips, like do not take school issues to home!!!

We need to learn how to put aside work from home...

If you are stress as a teacher .. you will stress your students... and class will be stressing... and will be AWFUL... so we better learn how to deal with the end of the year!!!

FeMiCiDe Is NoT fAsHiOnAbLe.....

Kathy´s presentation was about femicide and how society sees it as a normal thing... well not as normal but is being accepted... is not as shocking as it used to be....

She also commented about a brand of jeans that uses images of hurted women.... and how they sell a product using femicide....

I do not know why women do not ask for help when they suffer from abuse.... I cannot image how afraid they are that they prefer to be hited than going to the police.....

This topic is very delicated... because women are suffering in all kind of social classes.... and the abuse can end in femicide.....

I think that schools should teach children to respect each other ... talk to parents and teach them how important are each member of the family ....

I don`t know... what else to say........

HaLLoWeeN.....

.... and halloween came... we organized a nice party for the kids....

we played games.... we acted... made a barbecue... it was a lovely evening!!!

EsTaTuTo DoCeNtE: una tragedia peor que el transantiago

.... Mr. L made us read about this topic based on what Mario Waisbluth.... This professor said that education in our county is living a terrible crisis....

This professor also said that nowadays anyone can be a teacher.... and I agree with him.... I think that in this career nobody selects the students... if they have skills to become a teacher.. or if they are psicologycall normal.....

I studied another career before ... and I can say that now I do not have any kinds of demands.. as a student..... If I Compare this career with the one I studied before... I can say that we are not well prepare.....

Teachers need to be prepare... need to know about world matters... country situation...and many other things....

A teacher needs to talk properly.....

Anyways...I do not think that education would change.....

Education is a tool.. to keep the power ..... If students are not well prepare... if they do not develop critical thinking... they will not complaint.... and you can keep the country without too many problems...

This is way people that rules the country do not have their children in public schools.....

...OxFoRd DaY.................

Today was Oxfor Day at Telefonica's building... it was a great seminary; "Prescribe Stories: magic the medicine for the mind"...

It was very interesting, there were two argentian's that gave speeches. The woman was focus on neuroscience.She talked how the brain works: left hemisphere for logical and right hemisphere for emotions, but the brain needs to be balanced....

She said that schools always emphasizes the brain hemisphere although it is proved that the right one understand over a 500% faster than the left one.

She also said that when you exercise your brain finds the balance needed to be open to work or to learn properly, so If you are in your office seating boring infront of a computer your brain isn't working in a balanced way, but if you are in your office making a phone call and you walk from one side of the room to another, your brain is working in a balanced way.... interesting... isn't???

It was also said that reading makes your brain use both hemispheres... when you read you use the left one because there is grammar but at the same time you use imagination an it is there when you use the right one...... so if you have a math test... you should read a fairy tale before going to give a test....your brain will be balance in a good mood to learn in a better way....

Emotions were made to be out of our bodies... when you "eat up" emotions the emotion has to find a place in your body and be hidden there ..... and when you have eaten up so many emotions your body doesn't have enough room for more emotions.... and it is here when your body explotes through depression or another disease......Reading helps you to bring up your emotions and balances your brain.....

so before any activity you need to be aware and paying attention.... read something... your brain will be pleased!!!

Mr Litman... visit www.brainrules.net

and go to the video which says exercise-brain rule # 1

you'll love it!!!

...SmArTbOaRdS..........

... Last class I had to do my oral presentation ..... I had made a movimaker presentation but it did not work so as Fernanda was presenting her topic I went to the computer lab and created a quick powerpoint.

The subject I chose was the impact of IT's in chilean education, this speech was based on a seminary I attended a few weeks ago.

For me was a very important issue to discuss and think about.... children are different from us!!! they were born in a high tech environment.... so instead of trying to understand why children do or act as they do, we have to accept them. Accept them chatting, playing games..... using their cellphones as a tool to socialize... etc. We need to understand this world they were born in and try to use technology as a way to understand them .

Nowadays many teachers are prepared to use IT'S but schools are afraid of incorporating the different technologies a teacher can use in the classroom.

In Chile only one private school has incorporate tic's in all the institution, but they had to deal with a lot of problems like refusing technology, different levels of computing level,etc. This School is Dunalastair.

Dunalastair had to invest in hightech equipments such as smartboards, laptops for teachers and teacher's training in other countries.

In our university there is one smartboard that nobody uses... probably nobody has received the training to use the software.

I think that is important for us as future teachers , to know how to include but not abuse of these elements or tools that IT'S provide us........