Good Educator

Here is something basic about teaching English. It is whether teaching or not grammar.  Yes and No. Both answers are correct depending on some context-related thoughts. What is Prescriptive grammar? Prescriptive grammar is the rules and patterns taught in schools, discussed on teaching newspapers and magazines are protected by linguists organizations. that is, the grammar people should use in order to speak "correctly". For example:       Who did you see last night inside the movies?. This sentence, seen from a Prescriptive grammar view, has two mistakes. Although they continue being understandable, there are mistakes. A way to fix this could be:       Whom did you see last night at the movies? Those rules which tell us that we must use whom rather than who because it is the object of "see", are the Prescriptive grammar. Its main function is to lead us on the road for a "correct" way of speaking. Descriptive Grammar I...

hello people. This are the things we are supposed to have ready for next weekend. Hope you have a great time. 1. From session 11 you must complete the activities on pages 6, 13, 18 2. As a comentary to this post you will send your letter and will give your opinion for at least two of your classmates' letters. 3. As a comment to this post, publish at least 10 WH-questions and answer 5 from your classmates. 4. If possible finish session 11. Here are the answers from page 12 at session 11. Yo soy Margarita, trabajo en una librería y estudio idiomas en la universidad. Yo viajo a diferentes lugares del país en mis vacaciones. El año pasado visité a mi tía Clara. Ella vive en Cali con su esposo Pedro y sus hijos Roberto y Juliana. Allá, todos fuimos al lago Kalima y navegamos en un bote. Mi tía tomó fotografías del paisaje pero no grabó videos del paseo porque ella perdió su videograbadora hace dos años. El próximo año, mi novio y yo iremos a Cartagena; nosotros disfrutaremos...

"La desigualdad es una relación entre sujetos que abarca distintos ambitos [...] Por eso es un problema político y social que está en el corazón de las instituciones y las subjetividades y no sólo un problema de cómo se hace para incluir a los excluidos [...]"  Hay una desigualdad natural y una que no es natural. La primera puede ser descripta como una desigualdad fisica, indolora, como si estuviesemos anestesiados. El pasar frente a un niño que vende confites en un semaforo y sentir compasión pero al mismo tiempo "sentirlo tan normal". La segunda es una desigualda no natural que se puede traducir en terminos morales y políticos. En ambos casos es necesario recurrir más que a nuestra compasión, a un sentir profesional y arraigado en una convicción politica: "queremos un mundo mejor con una sociedad más igualitaria". Teniendo la desigualdad en un concepto de relación entre sujetos, se puede anteponer su caracteristica temporal. La desigualdad no se ...

¿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...