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Tuesday 23 December 2014

The competitiveness is the cancer of the 

comradeship.

Wednesday 17 December 2014

This is just the beginning

               Today has been  my last class of didactics; I think this class has taught us about teaching to learn not just teaching to make the students know.  Isn’t it wonderful how different it is teaching to know and teaching to learn? Didactics is about adapting to the kid and not making the kid adapt to the teacher, as teachers we have to be sure that EVERY STUDENT is learning. Understanding the pupils’ needs and the students’ strengths would make you a good teacher.Furthermore, as teachers we have to make the barriers of our students disappear,this is to say, we have to help them to destroy them, that is our most important task.
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                We have to become in students of our students, in order to understand them. We have to understand that we are not in the focus anymore, that the most important thing in our class are the students and not us. We have to be the guides to the knowledge and not the providers of the knowledge. Focusing on the students needs and interests would make you a better teacher.

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                As teachers we have to think that our students can get whatever they want, if they have some interests we have to encourage them.  Sometimes, the students don’t get into the class because we are not helping them to get in. Nowadays, the students are constantly been judged by the teachers, parents... We have to discover what they are, why they are like this and what could they be that’s another task of the teachers.

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                Finally, we have to realize how important our role in nowadays society is. Teachers are constantly undervalued, but even when the society doesn’t see the importance of our role, we cannot undervalue us, because if we don’t value our job we aren’t going to make the better we can make. Education is the most powerful tool to change the world, don’t ever forget it.



*I do not own this images, these images are from the book: To Teach the journey in comics. Really really interesting!

Saturday 13 December 2014

To learn to do



                This week we have been working with didactic units, with a program that makes easier to make it, called PDC. But the program wasn’t what caught more my attention, in my opinion on Tuesday we were talking about the basic competences that the EU asked to include in the curriculum, it is very interesting how the didactic units change when you are focusing in competences instead of objectives.What's best in this new education is that it recognizes that every students have strenghts and challenges and learn best at their own pace, sometimes with supports.


                When you focus on objectives, you have to focus on the evaluation which means that you have to get your students to get those objectives, and nothing else matters. This is to say, you work with the kids to finally evaluate them, make sure that they have got the objectives and then keep going to the next objectives. On the other hand, if we focus on the competences, we are focusing in the methodology. This means that the teacher is going to make them understand the information, not only to know it, furthermore the teacher is going to help them to develop the different skills.




                Ok, we all know that focusing in the methodology is more important that focusing in the evaluation, because this means that we don’t want our students to learn with the purpose of passing the test, we want them to go deeper in the knowledge and get them to learn it. But the real purpose of focusing in the competences is hidden in the nowadays society, our information society this is to say, everyone can just pick the phone and look for information. Today is not important to know everything because we actually have every information at our fingertips, nowadays is more important to understand this information and to be critical with it. The competences are about being able to use the knowledge in our daily life.





 Here you have the list of competences that the EU has asked the countries to include it in the curriculum. As you are going to see, the competences are not only about being critical and understand the information, the competences go further. 
  • Communication in the mother tongue.
  • Communication in foreign languages.
  • Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology.
  • Digital competence: involves the confident and critical use of information society technology and the basic skills in information and communication technology.
  • Learning to learn: is related to learning, the ability to pursue and organize one's own learning.
  • Social and civic competences.
  • Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship: is the ability to turn ideas into action.
  • Cultural awareness and expression, which involves appreciation of the importance of the creative expression of ideas, experiences and emotions in a range of media.


          The most important is that you don’t stop leaarning these competences when you finish school; you keep learning it throughout your life.  In conclusion, our society nowadays doesn’t ask for people who knows a lot of stuff, our society asks for people who has those competences. Today is more important to have the ability to know how to learn that know everything you have studied, also know how to deal with people is quite important, know how to express yourself… We have to adapt the education to our society changes, because otherwise we are only going to get an obsolete education.



Tuesday 9 December 2014

About the experience of the consciousness-aware


A few weeks ago, my friend and I decided to show our classmates the reality of Spain, this is to say, we thought of how important is for future teachers to know how the crisis has affected the society and therefore the children. As volunteers, we know how much our country is suffering the crisis and that the most affected people are the kids.

                We tried to give our mates, some ‘’theory’’ that we thought was important to understand the situation. First, we explained to them the areas of exclusion and inclusion and the four worlds in our world. We did this with some pictures to make it easier and less dense. Then we played a game which was about prejudices, this game tried to explain how we prejudice people by their image and by some little information that we had about them, but they are more than image and information, they are people with their backgrounds and we can’t just judge them we have to understand them. As teachers we think that this is an important lesson, because it’s easy to judge our students by their image or by some little information that we have about them, we have to go deeper and try to know them better, not just imagining how they are.



                Our next step was to give some data about the reality of Spain nowadays because of the crisis, because real information makes things clearer. Finally, we told them our experience because we are conscious that what catches people attention is to hear a real story. Our last step was to encourage them to see the reality of their world by themselves, so we give them some different options of voluntary work.


                As teachers we are probably going to fade a lot of students with economical or family problems, and I think being a volunteer is the best way to fade this reality. Also, being a volunteer could help this world to be a better place and these kids to have a better reality.


Sunday 30 November 2014

How education has changed for me



Today I was reviewing everything we have done in the didactics subject and something came to my mind, with all these information which is the education we are aiming for? We want an education that encourages the child development. An education which promotes critical-thinking that teaches the children to think and to evaluate their world full of manipulated information, also this education has to encourage the kid to learn by him/herself, it has to make students to love learning and this education has to teach the importance of hard-work, cooperative work and to show moral values.



                But how do we get that? Firstly, as teachers we have to leave the center of the stage, because now, the important role is in our students hands. We don’t have the information, the students have it, we are now guides in their process of education and we have to learn with them. This means that the relationship between the student and the teacher has to be bidirectional and that the responsibility of the education is in both, teacher and students hands and the students have to be conscious of it. Believing in the cooperative work, the groups of the class have to be heterogeneous so everybody can enrich with other’s strengths. In these groups, the students have some roles and each of them has to experience every role.



                Now, we are not going to focus only on the product (exam), we have to focus also on the process of the students, also the pupils are going to self-evaluated themselves and if they are working in groups they are going to evaluate their colleagues. The teacher has to adapt his/herself to the students and not otherwise. The teacher has to do an observation of the kids to get to understand them and their situation, also he or she has to motivate their students by using different resources and materials.This education promotes both autonomy and cooperative work, so the students learn by themselves and with others. We get this by giving the kids different responsibilities. The most important idea of this new education is that education is not a competition is a cooperation.

Wednesday 26 November 2014

Cooperative learning

                

                So yesterday we worked about cooperative learning, my classmates had to teach me about it. I think the experience of being on the other side, this is to say, being the ‘’pupil’’ is also interesting because when your classmates try to teach you something, is easier to understand the information.

                First of all, cooperative learning is about organising the class in heterogeneous groups, in these groups the pupils will work with each other, also they will go deeper than working individually. Cooperative learning has to be seen as another resource of education, its aim is to get not only the knowledge but to get the personal and social integration, affective support and higher work efficiency. These are some characteristics about cooperative learning:

  •  It’s not competitive.
  •  Cooperative learning has been created for everybody.
  • You learn to work individually and in groups.
  • It tries to develop skills such as: empathy, active listening, to dialogue, sharing information.



There are three kind of cooperative learning groups.

  • Informal groups: this groups are ‘’short-term’’ groups, I mean, these groups are used to momentary issues. For example, you have shown your students a video and you want them to comment it in groups.
  •  Formal groups: these are for a specific task which can last some sessions. For example, you make groups and you asked them to work about mammals, so then they have to expose their teamwork to the class.
  •  Base groups: This kind of group is long-term; they can last until the graduation. In these groups, the students help each other with their difficulties. This group has to be monitored by the teacher.
            In cooperative learning the students has some ''roles'' in the groups, all of them has to experienced each role, here you have an example of roles:



But these groups have also some rules:

  1. Everybody has to participate.
  2. Everybody is equal.
  3. Communication abilities have to be taught directly: such as having arguments, knowing how to put into words what you want to say...
  4. There are going to be conflicts but we have to get to the solution together.
  5.  Each member is going to be evaluated by the teacher and their other members; also the group is going to be evaluated.

We are going to finish with the differences of the traditional school and the one that we aim to:

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Working in groups experience


The past two weeks in my class of didactics we have been experienced the process working in groups. First of all, our teacher asked a student of my class to make heterogeneous groups of 5 people, this groups had to become ‘’specialist’’ of a topic there were two topics one was the diversity of the class and the other one was cooperative work. As you can imagine mine was the diversity of the class.

                We had a lot of information about the diversity of the class, so it was impossible for us to read them all. So, what did we do? We became specialist about little topics of the diversity of the class so then we could share our information with the other members of the group so finally we would have understood everything. I think my group did pretty well because we all had many conclusions and some schemes, so the pooling was pretty easy also it was very rewarding because we all went deeper in every topic and also as a lot of information was common we helped each other and if we hadn’t understood something, the other person would have explained us. Next class we make different groups of people with the same topic, so we shared the information with each other, it was very nice because we have left something about the diversity of the class and the other group as well so we increased our information.

                And this week what we have done is getting all the groups with the same topic together so we shared all our information, including some details and then we had to prepare the information with the people of the other topic. For me, getting together all the groups of the same topic at first, was a bit overwhelming but then, once we all starting to work it actually provides me with a lot of feedback, new information and different  points of view(Actually I’m  adding new information to my latest post). Then the teacher asked me to make groups of three people in which one of them had to be someone who doesn’t usually speaks so he or she had to be the one leading the teaching to the students of the other topic, doing this task was interesting and I had to select carefully the people who was going to talk, It was not precisely simple but it was interesting to do it.


                Finally, once we were in the work groups, we looked for ways to teach the other group. My group decided to try not to only explaining it by words but also with pictures and videos. I think we also did it pretty well and our colleague of the other topic told us she had understood it well. Finally, next week the other the people of the other topic are going to teach us about cooperative learning. I think being on the other side have to be also interesting. I’ll tell you about it next week!

Saturday 15 November 2014

The diversity of the class

Nowadays, the modern school has an uniform curriculum, classes with a lot of students and divided by ages and we can't change that but what we are able to change is the tradiotional method of teaching and we could adapt those things we can't change to the principles of diversity of the class. But... What does it mean diversity of the class?

To start with, I have to clarify that the diversity of the classroom happens in every classroom, why? Because as Gardner says in the multiple intelligences research (which I would probably talk another day because I think is a quite interesting topic), every kid learn in a different way so that’s what make every class full of diversity. If education is applyed equally to every student, the differences will grow. So what diversity of the class is trying to do is to provide every student with what they need, how do we get that? If you want to get this aim there are two rules:
  • You have to know every student, but also you have to know your class, this is to said, the whole group (how the group work better, which are the flaws and the strengths...
  • One word, FLEXIBILITY: as a teacher you have to have flexibility in the methods, materials, classroom... This also means that you have to know perfectly these methods, materials, evaluations... This is really important because if we are facing the diversity of the class we have to know a lot of methods to cover every student needs.

Maybe you don’t have yet a clear idea about what is and what is not the diversity of the classroom, here are some hints:

·         NO:
o   Personalised.
o   Chaotic.
o   Another way of creating homogeneous groups.
o   Trying everyone to understand the same curriculum.
·         YES:
o   Proactive education which tries to cover a range of necessities.
o   More qualitative that quantitative.
o   Based on the diagnostic: the diagnostic isn’t just test, it is everything the the pupil does.
o   Multiple standpoints.
o   Focus on the pupil who has more responsibilities.
o   Combines individual learning, group learning and global learning.

Furthermore, we have to make sure that the educational environment (activities, the classroom, timetables...) encouraged each child to act to learn. Now, I’m going to introduce you the two keys of the attention to diversity in education:

·         Autonomous learning: each pupil has to know that he or she is responsible of his or her education that they have to create their own knowledge.
·         Cooperative learning:  the group is another responsible of the learning, the pupils have to get the knowledge by working together too because each of them has some flaws and strengths so if they work with their strengths they are going to go further and their flaws will not impediment their learning process.

Focusing on the topic about how the people learn better we have four keys:
·         Finding sense of what they have learnt.
·         Organised knowledge:
                 --Clarity knowledge.
                 -- Firmness knowledge.
·         Active participation.
·         Being motivated because they are learning something that they are interested in.

In general we could have two types of students, the advanced ones and the ones who have difficulties, as teacher we can’t deny this fact. This is just a general idea because this may vary on different subjects, moments... Furthermore there aren’t only two types of students but to start with we can focus in these two types.


  • Advanced students could be bored because the tasks are easy for them, so they could end up being lazy students who haven’t acquired the habit of study. Also they could become in perfectionists who are never happy with their work and don’t accept the mistakes because they think having a mistake is fail. So with these students we have to challenge them so they have to make efforts in their education and also we could give them more responsibilities as trying to help another student who has difficulties.
  • Students with difficulties: could end up being frustrated. As teacher we have to show them their good skills and make sure that those subjects in whom they have problems don’t affect the other ones. We can’t give them easy tasks so they don’t get frustrated because they have also to make an effort in their learning, this is to say, finding a middle point in which they make an effort but don’t get frustrated. We have to get them to learn the important, not specific details.

We have said that with this kind of education the group tasks are very important, here comes the problem how should we make the groups? The diversity of the class bet on the hetereogenous groups but we have to be careful on it, in this scheme you can see the advanced students, the middle-level students and the students with difficulties in a particular subject. With middle-level student I’m not saying that there’s a standard student those are the students between the advanced ones and the ones with difficulties. So the groups has to be homogeneous but can’t mix an advanced student with one who has a lot of difficulties because both are going to end up frustrated. But if you put an advanced student with a ‘’middle-level’’ student, the advanced one can help the other one and learn by teaching that also happens with the ones with difficulties and the middle-level students, the middle level students can help the ones with difficulties so neither of them gets frustrated or bored.


In this kind of education the role of the teacher has changed, the teacher is no longer the one who has all the information and provide it to the pupils, know the teacher has to create a bridge between the students and the learning. That doesn’t mean that it isn’t important the knowledge of the teacher. The teacher has to fit the task with the class and students, of course it’s almost impossible to cover every student needs every time but we have to try it by using a lot of methods, materials, evaluations... so nobody is forget in this kind of education. The teacher has to let the students chose some tasks but also gives them some task, this has to be balanced. Both the teacher and the students are essentials in the class so they collaborate to get the aims.


A teacher has to create a climate of community, respect and security in the class and also has to plan every task carefully thinking about which could go wrong and having alternative plans. Let’s say that a teacher is a coach, a coach know the sport deeply and so their players and the team. The coach has goals to each player and to the team. In each practise the coach plan some individual activities, sections activities and group activities. The coach knows how to motivate each player and he promotes team work. He encouraged the team, makes an effort, give instructions and give responsibilities to some players to get his aims. But the most important thing about a coach is that he doesn’t play the game.


In conclusion, we could summarize everything in the triangle theory which explains that a triangle is not a triangle if it has not its three vertexes. Every vertex is essential for education forgetting one of those would mean that you are not educating properly.



As we have seen, a diversity class is not easy but if we focus on it, it will be much more educative. We have to understand how our pupils learn and how do they enjoy learning and try to cover it as much time as possible. Something as simple as changing the normal classroom and going to the hallway, playground... can catch their attention so they would learn much and better. The kids has to go to the school excited because they don’t know what they’re going to do so every day is different. Everyday has to be a challenge for the kid.


All this information has been provided by a book written by Tomlinson called ‘’La diversidad del aula’’.

Saturday 8 November 2014

ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE OF TEACHING UNITS AND TENS

             A week ago, my teacher told us that we have to prepare a ‘’class’’ in which we had to explain the units and tens by the universal design of learning principles. My group decided to explain first some theory and then do some other activities and games. We first split them in groups named as important places or monuments, there were a monument of each continent so everybody could feel part of the class, because the class was supposed formatted by 5 different cultures, we thought that it was important to show them some characteristics about the monuments, although it was a math class you can teach them geography and a little history. We also gave some roles of people who don’t understand English to make the simulation easier. We explained the theory with a power point to give some visual learning, the power point had some balls and with each ball we put a poster which said with numbers and letter how much units or tens there were.


Then we thought that we need an exercise to be sure that the students understood the information, we try to motivate them not by competence but with a simulation, we told them that their monuments were falling down so they had to make piles of bricks to endure the monuments, we gave them how much tens and units they had to get with those bricks in order to save the monuments but we also tell them that everybody should have at least a brick and that they had to help each other. Once they did it, we started another game in which they had to be walking around the class and the teacher told them to make groups of certain units and tens.

                But our practice had some mistakes as in the power point we should have written in every ball 1 to get them to understand that each ball was a unit and also focus a little more in the tens.  They second game was also a little difficult and the kids may not have understood it, also we lost the control of the class sometimes and we could have ask their attention by explaining to them the exercise that when the teacher raise his/her hand each of them have to raise their hand and be quiet. I think our best activity was the last game because they could have fun and also learn. Also when we explained the monument, we could have show them it on google earth so they can see them and place them ok.


What they do right, some groups give the students the opportunity to choose which game they wanted to play, one of these groups also includes a lot of types of learning lie using the tablet, by kinesthetic, writing and reading… That’s why I think that we should have included the children in the activity but letting them to choose which game they wanted to play and make different games in each group so they do different things at the same time so nobody gets bored.

              Finally we saw a video in which the teacher did it in a real class with blocks, the interactive board, groups of level in which the kids with more difficulties had a special attention, she showed them by an example with one of the groups what they had to do, so everybody was able to understand what to do by whatching the first group. Even with 11 different nationalities, she was able to teach them all. What caught more my attention was when the class was about to finish she asked them what they had learnt and that's how she evaluates them.



Tuesday 21 October 2014

Universal dessign for learning (UDL)

               

                Nowadays, Universal Design of Learning is getting more and more important. Universal Design of Learning has the purpose of making learning available for everyone, which means that everybody has the own way of learning and every class has some barriers that keep some students off the process of learning, so UDL is about destroying this barriers and making possible that everybody can learn with the same possibilities.

                Universal design of learning explains that each student has their own strengths, needs and interest, so with UDL we try to give each child what they requisite. This kind of education means making a universal education so everyone can learn.

                The idea of UDL is really nice but, how do we implement it? Like everything in education the answer is simple, it is all about the curriculum. But this curriculum is not easy at all because if we are trying to please every student and we have said that every student is different, it gets quite complicated. The students need to be participles of de knowledge, of the abilities and strategies and be enthusiastic of the process of learning; to get this the curriculum needs these three things. With this kind of education it is essential a flexible curriculum and it’s also essential that the teacher has to know what the student needs, prefers… and also the teacher has to promote multiple intelligences. This curriculum has to motivate and help ALL the students, this curriculum will end up helping every student.
                This curriculum has four parts:
  •       The goals: what do we want? What are our aims? Which barriers are we facing?  Who can I motivate my students? These goals have to be present in the next parts.
  •      The methods.
  •      The material.         à these three can't be static
  •      The assessment.

                How can we destroy the barriers? Using the three principles of de UDL:

      1.       Multiple means of representation: We have to teach the content and the information using multiple media.  For example, use graphics, highlight the most important words, explain the complex vocabulary…
     2.       Provide multiple ways to act and express: help the students to demonstrate what they have learnt in different ways.
     3.       Multiple ways of engagement: provide different ways of participation, let the kids learn from their mistakes, let them share knowledge, promote autonomy …

                   With these three principles every student is able to progress and they will keep their interest, most important, they’ll start enjoying learning that should be our most important goal as teachers. If every day is different in school, kids are going to enjoy school and the concept school as boring would disappear. Every day should be a challenge for the students and finally if we get this, we may get the students to love learning.

                   You can watch this video to get more information:




Sunday 19 October 2014

Inclusive education and groups of level

                This week we have been talking about inclusive education which tries to attend all the diverse educative necessities of the different kids.  This means, educating every kid with their own necessities but not pulling apart those kids who have them.  In this kind of education teachers, policy makers, families and pupils should share their opinions to make the curriculum.
                
                When we were talking about it in class we were in groups and one question started a debate, the problem was dividing the class in groups of level or not. I was on the side of dividing the class; our partners were scandalized because they couldn’t understand what we were trying to say. We weren’t talking about dividing the class in the smart ones and the dumb ones and that’s what they understood. This is not easy to explain so I’ll try to explain it with an example; we are a normal class and we are teaching math, they are going to be some pupils who resolve a normal problem in 5 minutes, other who do it in 15, and other who are frustrated because they don’t understand it and they aren’t going to end it or maybe they spent 30 minutes on the problem. It is clear that the ones who spent 5 minutes in the exercise are going to get bored because their partners are slowly and probably they will just give them the solution and the other ones will copy it but if we gave the faster ones a more difficult problem and the ones who spend a little more time one easier, the whole class could be learning math, enjoying it and getting the necessities they need.
               
                Finally the ones who find more difficult math are going to be able to learn it because if we keep the rhythm of the ‘’normal’’ ones at some point they are going to be lost. So with this model everyone learns. Every subject which need to be divided would have not the same people at the same levels because maybe one student is good at math but not at spanish, so there aren’t going to be the ‘’smart’’ ones and the ‘’dumb’’ ones, furthermore we are not going to name the groups as the high level and the low level, we could name it as colors for example. They are not going to realize which level is lower or higher because every kid is going to find in the exercise the same complexity.

                But we are not saying that every class and every subject should be divided in homogeneous groups, diversity is also important. So maybe the school projects or some classes could be divided in heterogeneous groups, so the ones who find the subject easier could help the ones who find it more difficult. With this model we are giving every kid what they need but we are not saying that one is worse or better, everyone is important in the class but as teachers we have to accept that some kids are going to have more necessities than others and trying to deny it would harm them more than help them. 

Saturday 11 October 2014

Flaws and strengths

                The other day in class out teacher ask us to prepare a debate,  the topic of the debate was homeschooling, a group had to defend it and the other one had to defend the traditional school. The fist time I had to defend the traditional school and it was kinda easy beacause I was defending my beliefs in spite of this the other group was giving some good arguments and my beliefs was starting to shake.

                The next day my group was defending homeschooling, at first I thought It was gonna be impossible but then a few ideas start coming and finally it was non-stopping. What I mean by this is not that my mind finally changed, what this brought me is that in life there are many ways and you have to decide one, but each one has his flaws and his strengths and  what you have to do is decide which one is better for you.

                I believe that recognising the other ways advantages is essential and you may not find its strengths at first, you are going to have to do research and you are going to need to go deeper.Furthermore I believe that it's also really important to recgnise the disadvantages of your own ideas. In conclussion being open-minded is not bad otherwise as treating with people this is essential, so just try to listen and not judging as much as possible.

About who's deciding the aims of education

                 A few weeks ago an economist came to our class, he started talking about economy and education. In his point of view education was a good investment because the money that the country invests on education will provide great benefits. This class made me thinks about who’s deciding on education, they are economist, Isn’t weird that people who doesn’t know any of education is making its decisions? I think so, furthermore their porpoise of education will be making the best workers and I personally think this is a wrong way.

                Of course making good workers is important but I believe that education is not for, education is a right and a duty, education shouldn’t have porpoise, education is important by its own. I think that dealing with education is dealing with people and if we treat education like another investment it will probably not be the best it can be.

                So we have to start realizing that education should be decided by people who know what’s about it not people who only see it as future money,  because yes money is important but people it’s more important.

Sunday 5 October 2014

Ways of learning


The forbidden education





                Last Wednesday my teacher showed us this video, this video is full of incredible ideas, definitely every teacher should watch it, the main idea of the video is that nowadays the education is obsolete and we don’t change it. A lot of ideas have come to my mind during the video and I’m going to try to reflect about them in this post.

                First of all, nowadays the education is based in the figure of the teacher, the teacher in front of the class saying a lot of stuff and the children listening and ‘’learning’’ but Are they really learning? I don’t think so, with this methodology the children don’t get involved and that’s the best way of learning, that’s the one they’re going to remember as the video says ‘’If you don’t enjoy you’re not learning’’. Furthermore this traditional way of teaching is making children associate learning with boredom and what teachers should focus is on making them love learning. A child as the video said is first curious but we make them forget that quality by not allowing them to think by their own, to discover. The video also said that we teach a lot of prefabricated answers and what we should do is let them guess the answer first. We can’t forget that teaching is not about concepts, teaching is about people.

                ‘’We are teaching people’’, people is diversity so why do we teach every kid with the same methods? It doesn’t make any sense. So, as teachers, we should focus on the necessities of every kid first but what we do is trying to standardize kids and we don’t let them be themselves so in the future they are not going to be the best they could be. Traditional education makes schools look like fabrics or prisons because it tries to make workers not people. So this education is dehumanizing children, is that what we really want? We should change our minds and start looking to the kid and not to the goal.

                 As future teachers we should not worry about mistakes, we should know that mistakes will carry you to the answer, so why do we punish a kid if he commits a mistake? That only makes the child frustrate so he will not try it again. What we should do is encourage them if they failure, make them understand that a mistake is not a finish is just a part in the process and also necessary.

                What about love? Is love important in the process of learning? Definitely YES. We can’t forget that those children who are not receiving love are going to have problems at schools, that’s what as teachers we should have contact with the families because the family has a huge role in education. Being in touch with the families and try is going to help to understand the situation of the children and so the behavior.

                Finally, the education is nowadays traditional because we haven’t stop and think about how we would teach today if we had to start education from the beginning. We have to look to everything as we would have never seen them. This is the only way to start changing education.