Hello
readers!
Last but
not least the entry number 11 of my blog, the end of an era, the last chapter
of this long book in which you have seen how much I have evolved from the first
entry to this one and I hope that with this last entry you could see what I
have learned during this course, what things I have changed in my life and what
I expect from the future so, let’s start this last chapter of this blog!
When I
started the course I was a little disappointed, not only with the career but
also with the profession that I am studying for, and that was because I
realized that school hasn’t changed very much since I was a child and because
teachers nowadays (some of them) don’t have the word CHANGE and the word
PROGRESS in their minds, sometimes they just won’t to get their checks paid and
spend the minimum ours at school. But, in my case, one of the ideas that I had
in mind and that I still have and that encouraged me to start this degree was
the idea of change, of progress of evolution and revolution. Because for me
education is those four terms and it is also freedom. So when I started the
course I thought that what I was planning to do someday with my students was
not possible now, because I couldn’t see people motivated not to change the
world, but to change the people who live in it instead and make of them better
citizens for the planet.
In the area
of English, when I started the course my intention was to offer my students the
best resources and the best methodology to my students in order to let them
enjoy English as much as I do. So I was a bit disappointed because during the
Practicum II I could see teachers basing their teaching in just completing
worksheets and not allowing students to think and reflect but only to copy and
repeat, and that’s not the human I want for this planet. So, even though it
took me a long time to recuperate this feeling of changing the world of
education, I remember it was after a common talk about what we expected from
this degree and from the teacher profession. But that talk encouraged me to be
what I think I am today, a fighter a person that has overcome personal problems
during the course and a person who has regained his motivation towards
education. Therefore this course taught me that what I really hoped about
education can still be accomplished and taught me that I must keep fighting to
implement my teaching style to class. In that way I have seen during the first
days of the practicum III that there are still some teachers that belief that
education could be changed and must be changed.
About the
concepts that I have learned in this course, I learned at most, what a CLIL
unit really is; now I know that English is as much important as the other areas
that we are working with, I also know that contents need a specific language
learning purpose, the importance of contents distribution, how to work and
assess with rubrics, etc. Moreover I learned new engaging activities that I can
do in class, methodologies, how to use the new technologies in the class to
benefit my students’ learning process,
the importance that the parents have in their children school success and a thing that is really important to me,
how mi ideals are reflected in an academic way and how I can take the ideals I
had about education to class. Nonetheless this blog and the debates we’ve done
in class have helped me to reflect about new ideas to introduce in class, like
the introduction of the comic, how classroom management works and what routines
should we introduce in class, the importance that the student has in class
thanks to the child centered classroom readings and debates and so on.
So I think
that Didàctica de la llengua anglesa, has helped me to learn some new concepts
about education and methodology but also has helped me to recuperate that dream
I had time ago about changing the educational world and help my students to be
happy with their life but also to respect the world, the people that live in it
and to wake up in them a reflexive and critic thinking that make them realize
that they must fight for what they love and that they must do it not only for
them but also for the people they love.
I hope you
liked this blog and be aware because maybe I will explain to you my experience
during the following Practicum III.