Good Educator

¿Que son las TIC's? Escrito reflexivo  Parece que la tendencia es el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación en el aula de clase. Aún así, carecemos de metodologías claras que permitan la integración, y no solamente la adición, de las TIC's en nuestra labor educativa. Propone un caso hipotético lo siguiente: "Un profesor que desea entrar en la era de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y la comunicación, decide todos los días utilizar en su clase los computadores que toma prestado de la biblioteca. Sus estudiantes son felices, sin embargo él observa que lo primero que ellos hacen al ingresar a Internet es abrir Facebook. Él comenta la situación a la institución, por lo que la misma toma  la decisión de bloquear en los computadores de la institución páginas como facebook, twitter y youtube" Hay varias posiciones a tomar en cuenta: Jen Marten dice que el uso de Twitter le ha ayudado a mejorar su labor cómo docente. En el caso de es...

As I had the opportunity to teach English to ninth graders for a month, and because of the very mind opener advises I received from the principal of that school, I began to look for the way to become an English teacher. It certainly wasn`t my first option when thinking about economical interests; but, it was the best option when having to select a job I enjoy doing. My first thoughts were that I needed a job where I could continue learning, feeling successful and having stability (economically and autonomously talking) while having fun in my workplace. I have always seen my teaching as dynamic, enjoyable and rigorous but I have detected a lack of qualities in my teaching (e.g. empathy and creativity, among others) in which I´m working now. Sometimes I feel minored by those education program students who have more experience, knowledge and clearer dispositions than I do, but I continue hoping for it to be a matter of age, commitment, learning, teaching experience and teaching knowle...

Journal 1 - Talking about Teachers and  Educators j ournal 1, teachers and educators by Juan Felipe Naranjo Usuga is licensed  under  a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License .  According to Ruiz Amado there are three kind of "maestros". the first one is the "maestro genial", then the "maestro artesano" and "maestro artista". Both of them have their own characteristics but the one we would focus on, for the purpose of this post, is "maestro genial". Why? Because its main characteristic lies in his very natural way to teach. This master does not need to use pedagogy. He/she just needs to understand how to use the teaching resources and avoids any pedagogical matter, not because pedagogy is not important; but because of this master inborn way to teach.  This kind of master is quite near to what is said about our education in pedagogy. "We can be taught to be educators (talking ab...