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........

GeNdEr BiAs... by fernanda

Fernanda made her presentation about gender bias... this topic is also very important for us .... future teachers.... we have to be able to put away discrimination and teach students values... and acceptation... we can not reinforce gender discrimination....

Men and Women have the same rights and we have to teach in diversity and multicultural respect.....

Suicide and Depression in Teenagers...

Last class Eduardo made a presentation about suicide and depresion in teenagers.... Although it is a wellknown topic ... Eduardo reinforced the idea that I have about the importance or impact that the teacher can have in students....

Children spend most of the day in the school.. so teachers know their friends.. school performance...love crushes... and many other things... so it is our labor to pay attention to student´s attitude and change of moods......