EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES THAT ALL TEACHERS SHOULD ANALYZE
In my years as a Teacher, whereby daily experience with my
students, colleagues and representatives, I have had the
opportunity to think and ask me questions that maybe many other
teachers, at some point in their career have also been doing
themselves. The answers that I have gotten, could easily be
considered as educational principles; being understood these as a
reflection of the essential characteristics of a system, which
users assume and without which they cannot work, understand or use
the system; in this case, the system would be education.
In that vein, a teacher cannot carry out effectively their work
if he or she has not stopped to think what is my intention as a
teacher? Many would answer: teach, impart knowledge, to plan
interesting activities, etc. However, the true intention of the
educator is that students learn; contents and activities are only
means to achieve it and therefore are expendable and they change
when the student and / or the situation warrant.
It is also common to hear teachers phrases such as "that kid
doesnt learn because he wont" or worse, "I cant do anything if he
doesnt want to learn". In this case I asked myself what can I do to
make that my student want to learn? And I understood that the
teacher influences the decision of learn of the student, and
therefore, also the decision of not learn; that is why the teacher
must find a way to do that their student accept with pleasantness
the class that is offered.
Finally, the truth is that all students want to learn. The
students go to school with the strong desire of learn from the
world around him, of discovering these world and feel how it
affects him (learning). He is waiting that his teacher teaches
him.
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