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.