DEI-III - 2010 WILBER VELIS
Monday, September 20th, 2010
REACTION #2
LEARNING FOR LIFE:
CHAPTER IV: PEDAGOGY
CHAPTER V: ADVICE AND GUIDANCE
Generally, we, as teachers, make mistakes when teaching such as teaching the way we want, rather than the way Ss need to be taught. Also, we do not put into practice good curriculums and different ways of assessing Ss’ leaning. I know that our Ss or pupils can not only learn formally (formal learning), but also informally (informal learning). Because of this, I consider that teaching is an art and a science, why? Because a person who teaches has to know that he/she has to be creative in order to awake their Ss’ interest in learning which is something really hard most of the time. I consider it as science since we, teachers, have to know that our students are learners by nature since they (Ss) are good learners since they were born, but they fail when learning because we do not put into practice a variety of lessons in order to create on them the need of learning. So that, I know that Ss learn better by teaching-by-telling rather that direct input because, as I mentioned before, they learn better the language by being exposed to them, not by exposed the language to them. In fact, we may call this, the easy way of learning, simple acquisition. Talking about advising and guiding, I, as a teacher, know that I have to help my Ss to discover their strengths on learning since we have the job of guiding them to the right way. I have to show them the way to face life in a better way by exposing them to different experiences (job experiences or life experiences). Finally, we teachers must know that we have in our hands the rough material (Ss) to transform or to destroy the future of their life and their country.
