DIDACTICS

SILVIA’S DIARY . 

GROUP B-SILVIA GARCÍA RODRÍGUEZ.

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This has been the beginning of this subject. We started the class after the main presentation in the university so we began our class doing a presentation; we talked about us, saying our name, why had we chosen that degree… And Mina suggested us to change the positioning of the class, she told us to put it in U form. Because this is different to the common class, and because she liked more this positioning.

She gave us a sheet with some questions to answer them. The questions were about: defining the aim of education, the best teacher, the reasons that we decided to choose the degree…

This questions made me think deeper in my thoughts, because I have always been a primary teacher so It was difficult for me explain in the good way. But with that activity I learnt that for me being teacher is just my one way, because I don’t see me doing other things that are not teaching, being with children, learning… I am very please with this because I have realize more than ever that I love this degree.

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The following activity that we did a few of questions like: what we try to achieve, what are our goals as a teacher, what are our aims of education…I thought it during a lot of time because this questions made me think deeper and deeper , I have always wanted to be “the best teacher” with who the children learn a lot, like values, knowledge, help them to achieve their plans, have a good time during learning…

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An other day Mina gave us a couple of texts to read. The texts were about: approaches to the curriculum, Character of the aim of education and the aims of education in an age of stasis and change. They content a lot of information that was unknown for me but this information has been a learning.

The meaning of curriculum was totally unknown for me and I have learn a lot about It and now I can understand it perfectly. “The term curriculum refers to the lessons and academic content taught in a school or in a specific course or program”

With these classes I learnt that aims define the point of an activity what it seeks to achieve where it should go.

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Another activity that we have done it has been THE DEBATE, one of the most important for me, because we had to defend thoughts that weren’t our thoughts or yes. It was about the education in the houses or in the schools, most of the class thought that education in houses is not a good way of education but it was a roll and if it was our roll we had to say positive things about it and defend it against the other with the opposite roll. With this activity I learnt that we shouldn’t live with our own idea and think more in the other point of view and with this you realize that your idea is not the best one and the other is not the worst one. So with this activity I saw that learning at home is not too bad how I thought because it has good things and it is well done but I am not accord with this point of view. So I have learnt with this: we have to think beyond our thoughts.

With this we have already built a mature point of view of everything in life, because with this we are going to value each point although we don't share that way, that opinion.

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Suddenly, a day an ECONOMIC TEACHER arrived to our class and he started talking to us about how economies see education. At the beginning I thought that it would be more dynamic but not. First he started saying that we have to change our economic model. Firstly, we have to investigate more in education and the object of this is that education will help us to be a better society and get a stronger economy. It was interesting but when he started talking deeper in economy so we didn’t understand anything.Because it was an explaining without caring about our attention...

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 POPULAR MYTHS ABOUT TEACHING

This activity has been entertaining because we have read some myths about education, children… that are not too real. One of them is: “kids today are worse than ever before” first we thought that It was true but when Mina said to us her opinion I began thinking about couple of time that teachers had said my class that It is the worst that they have never had… and the true is that the society is the factor that is continuously changing. So children are not just the ones that change and if teacher don’t change they will always say that each year children are worse than the last one. An other myth: “Teachers always know what’s going on in classroom” : okay, this is a difficult one, because we thought that it depends on the teacher, if he is “modern” or not. If he knows all the innovations…Other was: “ The teachers work is to “save” the children”: It could be true because teachers are there to teach to children values, knowledge, behaviour… and If he teach it in the right way it is like “save” because It is for their future and for the construct of their personality.