Attention Deficit Disorder

Attention Deficit Disorder is a very close topic nowadays because most of us have seen a child hyperactive. I remember one of my students at the school where I am doing my professional practice that is always moving, jumping, and teasing. Therefore, as teachers we have to be aware of this topic and know how to deal with it.

Fernanda did a very good research; in my personal opinion, she did a very good micro lesson because she used technical words, the information was precise, and the micro lesson was well staged. However, she overused her personal notes, and read too much from the power point. Therefore, was too much teaching talking time and too little students talking, giving opinions, and etc. Finally, I congratulate Fernanda because she managed the topic very well, she monitored the class properly during the activities, and she looked for interesting and relevant information.

Educación 2020

This page is very useful because it is created to look for proposals from the different participant of education; teachers, parents, students, and anybody that want to contribute to improve the Chilean education. They fight for achieving that by 2020 every student has a better and significant education.

This page is one of the current strategies to come to agreement on this controversial topic. Therefore, I feel very proud of it, and I think we all should become part of it in order to find different proposals, to contribute with other ideas, and to get in touch with the people’s thought.

Video Games an Entertaining Way to Learn

I was not interesting with this topic because I do not know much about video games. On the other hand, considering that we as teachers have to plan and prepare the lessons from the students’ reality I agree to use video games as a tool for teaching English but I steel think that should be monitored to avoid addiction. Moreover, Juan Manuel performed a well staged micro lesson, interesting information, and entertaining activities.

First, the micro lesson was clearly staged. Second, the information covered was balance, and he not only pointed out the advantages of his thesis, but also he explained the disadvantages. And third, the activities were engaging and useful; however, it could have been even more efficient if all of us could have played because there were like ten people being passive while the other were playing video games. Finally, I ended accepting this topic as a tool for learning only when there are supervision and the possibility of considering the whole class.

Teachers' Strike

What is it about?

It is about two main points; the first is the municipal bonus known as SAE, and the second, is the historical debt. Teachers are fighting for being paid because according to the SAE bonus it supposed that the government granted to municipalities to gave it to public teachers at the end of the year; however, municipalities never paid, and in relation to the historical debt, it is called historical because it emerged when public schools became part of municipalities; therefore, teachers who worked in public schools had to get this benefit, but none of the teachers did.

Is it fair?

This question is difficult to answer because according to any worker’s right this is absolutely unbelievable. Most of the professional in our country receive what it is guaranteed for them according the law, but in the case of teachers that is not applied. Therefore, it is inacceptable and disrespectful. The teachers should be paid, and the strike it is fair because at this point it is the only way to make the authority understand that it is not fair for any worker the situation that they are facing.

Is it ethical?

It is not so ethical because teachers should teach another ways to solve conflicts, but unhappily that is not most of the time applied because sometimes people need to do things like this to be heard. Therefore, it is not ethical, but it is necessary.

Is it legitimate?

It is absolutely justified because from my personal point of view it is the only way to make the authorities understand that they have to do something about, and to be consistent with the teachers’ rights.

Text Analysis

Firstly, when I heard this topic I thought this was more related with the academic part of our lives. However, after the Fabian’s micro lesson, I could realize that text analysis could be one of the tools to teach English because students can practice reading comprehension, identify the important words in texts, and learn new vocabulary.

Fabian did a very good micro lesson because the three stages were presented clearly. However, there were problems with the power point presentation in terms of spelling, font size, and color combination. Moreover, his English was sometimes difficult to understand, but I have to congratulate Fabian because I have seen a huge progress in terms of language since I know him.

Teaching Large Classes

This topic is so familiar to me because I attended one of the Jeremy Hamer presentations at the university, and I could realize that long classes and long lessons are possible to set in an entertaining and effective way. Moreover, this topic is also relevant for us because in most of the schools the amount of students go over forty students per class. Therefore, we have to be prepared to plan according to a large class.

Franco’s micro lesson was meaningful and well prepared. Moreover, the power point presentation had the precise information written in Standard English with no error. However, in my personal opinion there was too much teaching talking time because Franco explained almost everything, and I would like to guess, discuss, and read more. Finally, this topic was very useful, the information covered was interesting and precise, and Franco was a well communicator.

Philadelphia

This movie shows the stereotypes that society set. It is the story about one successful layer surrounded by colleagues and friends, but after his boss realized that he had AIDS his boss found the way to fired him. Therefore, discrimination, stereotyping, and values are the most controversial topics presented. Nowadays, these topics are also in the discussion, but in different levels because we all are aware of the importance of respect in life.

We as teachers have to be careful with falling in discriminating our students by any aspects. In this case there were sexual discrimination, but nowadays can be racial, gender, among others. Finally, I liked this movie because of the huge set of values that expressed even though I disagree with homosexuality I consider human beings to be respected.