This artifacts are two pictures taken the second session that I attended in the 5th grade. It
represents how significant this experience was (and still is) to me in terms of
the quality of teaching you need to represent to your students.
I selected this
artifact because it represents a very important part in my process of
connecting of theory with practice of Pedagogy. It made me think of how
affectionate the teacher should be with his/her students, because is with that
tool that students could get a lot of confidence in reaching their goals,
whether it is related with a precise course or if it is an aspect of their personal
growth.
Also this experience
made me realize that how much important is the attention you gave to your
students in their knowledge acquisition. I wrongly believed that this topic was
something secondary in the activity of knowledge delivery, and that is
absolutely false in the practice, you must see it in action to ensure those kinds
of assertions. I believe I have grown my understanding of been emphatic with
them and more if you already know that they come from social risk situations,
for any reason whatsoever, so I will be more empathic with all my students, I
just want to look as the same person for everyone.
b. Team-teaching stage:
The artifact used in
this stage is a quote of Mark Van Doren: “The art of teaching is the art of
helping to discover”. It represents the spirit of teaching that all teachers
must have alongside their lives as educators, and the fact that we will be
guiders to the knowledge of our students in almost all the situations inside
the school and even outside it.
I select this
artifact because is the kind of spirit that I could see in my guiding teacher while
my practicum was in course. It made me reflect about my own motivation, spirit
and sense of commitment that I need for doing the best job for them.
Also the experience made me realize about how
focused can be the children who really are interested in obtain information
from their teachers who are really “there” for them, and thanks to that my perspective
about been a guider is stronger than ever.
