week #15: Putting It Together and Starting Again – Another Model

According to the reading, there are some factors and conditions that foster your development as a teacher. To be a good teacher it not only to have a good character, and a great personality; this influence a lot in the way the students see the teacher, but  there are some others characteristics that the teachers should take into account in order to succeed as a teacher.

In order to be good teachers we should follow some elements such as, “it is important to see teachers as actively involved in constructing knowledge and making meaning, through their own actions”. In my opinion, this means that teachers should be creative in order to be involved in constructing knowledge, demonstrate to the students that their knowledge is not based only in theory, but is based in practice and experiences collected from many areas.

On the other hand, the reading mentions that “relates to teacher´s knowledge of the students themselves, as learners of a particular age, deriving belief and values from a culture and having preferred way of acting and learning”. In my opinion, this means that the teachers should know their students in order to act in the correct way while is teaching. For example, we as teachers should know the students background, their culture in order to build a good environment in class.

week #14: Teacher development through reflective teaching

According to the reading; “Since the early eighties a number of approaches to teacher development have been proposed and implemented in classrooms. These approaches include the teachers-as-researchers, action research, clinical supervision, and the critical pedagogy perspective, among others”.

I think reflective teaching is very important since the teachers organize themselves before start a class. “According to Julie Tice, Reflective teaching means looking at what you do in the classroom, thinking about why you do it, and thinking about if it works - a process of self-observation and self-evaluation. By collecting information about what goes on in our classroom and by analyzing and evaluating this information”. So according to this information, I think that an effective teaching teacher is the person who really cares about the students necessities. It is a person that improves his/her knowledge in order to give his/her best in class. It is the person who motivates, and helps his/her students to give their best.