OPD: 2012

martes, 26 de junio de 2012

Características del plan de estudios 2011. Educación básica

domingo, 10 de junio de 2012

Essay. Strengths and weaknesses as a teacher

The PHD. Philippe Perrenoud gave us some clues to make easier the teaching process task. These ten new competencies for teaching are considerate as a main clue in the teacher learning process.

These ten new competencies are:

Organizing teaching process. Here talks about what we have to do with the students during the teaching process. We have to work with students evidences and share with the whole group and start to learning by the errors and obstacles they have in order to make themselves conscious of their own errors. To make better students, we as teachers have to make to the students to make some researches and became them in projects that can help them during their leaning process.
To manage the learning progression. We as teacher have to know what the problems of learning of our students are. We have to make that our lesson plans cover the problems and how to solve the students’ ones. Obviously we don’t have to take away the objectives that the curriculum says. According to the last competence, the researches made by students, have to be involve with the practice, in order to make the theory and the practice joined. Finally, the teacher has to evaluate to the students according to the formative approaches.
To develop and evolve differentiation devices. The teacher has a difficult task. He has to make students to socialize each other, no matter their nationality, where they live or the way they live. The teacher has to make join the class and respect the rights of every one. He has to make the classroom a room where the students can develop their abilities and be partners of their classmates. If the teacher notice that a student is not involved with the class, ha has the task to make him/her participate in the process of living in a classroom. Here is the most difficult task for the teacher. He has to develop the cooperation in his/her students in order to make a collaborative learning and create a codependence of learning.
To involve students in their learning and their work. But the teacher task is not only to create a collaborative learning, he has to encourage to the students to learn by their own interest. This is a difficult task, because learners are teenagers and they don’t have any interest in learning process. The teacher has to make understand to the students that they have to work in teams and they have to evaluate by themselves. In this evaluation, the teacher has to be very carefully because some students are unconcern about their learning process and thing that the only person who can evaluate is the teacher.
To work in team. According to the competencies published by UNESCO, to know to work in team is a great idea to share knowledge and create a codependence in learning process. As teacher, we have to encourage students to work in teams and to avoid differences between students. This competence is related to the last one that tells us that we have to make a joined group, despite of students’ culture. Here is where we can check if students are socializing each other or there are break downs and there aren’t friendship and partnership.
To participate in school management. To work in team is not just student’s task. Teacher haves to work in team with his/her colleagues. The teacher has to put the example to the students that they have to work in teams. The teacher has to be involved with the administrative process. He/She has to coordinate and/or promote that the whole school actors have to be involved in the school management. Also, during this management, students can participate in this process.
To inform and involve parents. To make a tripartite agreement, teachers have to involve students’ parents in order to make them participate in the school. Teachers have to make meetings with the parents in order to make them known of the grades of their kids. Obviously, they have to manage them.
To use new technologies. Perrenoud shares us a very important thing, the technology. Students and teacher have to use very good the technology. We as teachers don not have to be unconscious and we have to try to encourage the use of the technology. Now days, the curriculum and UNESCO tell us that students have to work on wikis, blogs, or any other device that internet gives us. In universities, some carriers are by webcam classes thus; this is a great example of the technology use in universities. But not only in universities, some conferences are by webcam or any other device that work by cam.
Deal with the duties and ethical dilemmas of the profession. To create a great environment in the classroom is too difficult, because of the huge intercultural students we have. And here is where a problem is in front of us, the violence. The violence is the most typical problem in secondary school. Teenagers are part of the bullying and the teacher has to stop this movement. He has to prevent that all kind of violence act, both in the school and the community. The teacher has to make some conferences about the fight of the right, the sexual and social discriminations. At the beginning of the course, the teacher have to make the rules that are going to be perform since the first day of the classes, till the end of the course. Also, he/she has to develop the responsibility in their students, in order to make this rules being acted.
To organize the own continuous training. Here is where the teacher task is only for him/here. This competence is where the teacher has to be involved with the whole school, and with his/her own work. The teacher has to have a continuous training during his work life, he/she don not have to be just a simple graduated, and the teacher has to be an updated teacher. He/she has to be in courses or to keep learning during his/her life. But not just for him, the teacher has to encourage to his/her colleagues to keep learning too.

And these ten new competencies are very important and tell to the teachers and new teachers what we have to make, in order to make a better learning process

viernes, 8 de junio de 2012

Essay. Future problems challenges in the teaching practice.

Education has been an interesting issue brought out by different authors, but what are the most thrilling issues in education nowadays? We have to face that there are different phenomena that have been affecting us since globalization has been presented as a worldwide phenomenon, different learning methodologies, the usage of Communication and Information technologies and so forth.

Thus, we, as future teachers and people who will be involved in education issues, have to see the future of education through different eyes. In 2004, Patrick Griffin highlights that education is now expected to help and support in the development of values since family and social class patterns may no longer shape these. There are a key set of values and virtues connected with education, for example, learning, thinking, integrity, honesty, growth, and excellence. These values and virtues reflect the general goals and standards of behavior among educators, educational institutions, and families. These values and virtues define what is judged as important in the educational process and what types of character traits are seen as reflecting these values.

Another issue concerning a challenge in education is to promote and to encourage students to use social networks and internet to access to different kinds of information. Web sites have emerged to chronicle the burgeoning numbers of virtual education initiatives. “Further evidence of this increased activity is presented in some recent studies that have examined the processes of “e-education” (Bjarnason et al., 2000; Cuningham et al., 2000; Erhmann, 2000; Kerry et al., 2000, Johnston et al., 2001).

By doing so students are more likely to be in touch with recent information that makes them be more critical and judge what is true and what it is not. This process makes students think critically and judge whether a source really contains facts that help them in the gathering of information instead of obtaining only useless information.

The previous issue leads us to “virtual education”, -another challenge- it may seem we are referring to a far away future topic, but now more and more people are attracted to this new way of learning. Teachers have to develop alternative methodologies to make students gather information, write essays, participate in forums, and to interact with people that are not in the same place, city, state or even country.

The final "ingredient" necessary to creating an ideal education is the student. Students need to be inquisitive, enthusiastic, and eager to learn in the classroom. Students who like and feel comfortable with the education they are receiving are more interested in going to school regularly and in continuing their education after graduating from high school. Students need to be encouraged by themselves as well as by teachers and parents. Students have the responsibility of completing their assigned projects on time, being attentive and willing to learn in the class, and they must govern their own study habits and methods of working. A student has to have his priorities straight so that he knows not to neglect his studies.

A challenging education cannot be achieved with one or two "pieces" of the puzzle missing. All three "pieces" -- parents, teachers and students -- must be in place in order for the puzzle to be complete. The three components work together. For instance, a teacher and a student alone cannot work effectively toward the goal of a perfect education. The child's parent (or parents) must be in communication with the teacher to know how the child is doing academically. The parent also must communicate with the child in order to know how the child feels he or she is doing and to know how the child feels about his or her progress. The child, the parent, and the teacher must work together in order to create and maintain a perfect educational system.

By teaching effectively during the second decade of the 21st century skills that will increase their marketability, employability and readiness for these students will be the right techniques to get a profitable job. Teachers from today face this challenge to provide the right tools so that employers will hire them, some of the skills needed by employers pursue now a days are:

• Thinking critically and making judgments about the barrage of information that comes their way every day—on the Web, in the media, in homes, workplaces and everywhere else. Critical thinking empowers people to assess the credibility, accuracy and value of information, analyze and evaluate information, make reasoned decisions and take purposeful action.

• Solving complex, multidisciplinary, open-ended problems that all type of students, in every kind of workplace, might face. The challenges workers face do not come in a multiple-choice format and typically do not have a single right answer. Nor can they be neatly categorized as “math problems,” for example, or passed off to someone at a higher pay grade. Businesses expect employees at all levels to identify problems, think through solutions and alternatives, and explore new options if their approaches don’t pan out. Often, this work involves groups of people with different knowledge and skills who, collectively, add value to their organizations.

• Creativity and entrepreneurial thinking—a skill set highly associated with job creation (Pink 2005, Robinson 2006, Sternberg 1996). Many of the fastest-growing jobs and emerging industries rely on workers’ creative capacity—the ability to think unconventionally, question the herd, imagine new scenarios and produce astonishing work.

• Communicating and collaborating with teams of people across cultural, geographic and language boundaries—a necessity in diverse and multinational workplaces and communities. Mutually beneficial relationships are a central undercurrent to accomplishments in businesses—and it’s not only top managers who represent companies anymore. All students must be skilled at interacting competently and respectfully with others.

• Making innovative use of knowledge, information and opportunities to create new services, processes and products. The global marketplace rewards organizations that rapidly and routinely find better ways of doing things. Companies want workers who can contribute in this environment.

Thus as seen in this brief essay, the challenges in education one of the most important is the teacher and how well his/her students need to be prepared to face a more competitive world. Every day people need to be prepared to get a job. It makes the teacher’s job more defiantly to assure the society that he/she‘s prepared to undertake any activity.

This challenging world will make us be better teachers and to improve our teaching methods, by doing this students will have better opportunities in a more defiantly world.