After trying to find the best place to live, I decided to live in Edinburgh. The reason is that, although the weather is not as favorable as I would like to, this place is considered one of the most picturesque cities you can find in Europe, and that sounds really interesting for me.
Now, if you ask me about a place that I do not like to live in, that place is Canada. Even though Edinburgh is not a warm place, I think you can deal with it, but Canada is too much for me. I really hate cold because you cannot do all the things you’d like to when is cold, and I am a person that likes to have fun and go out with their friends.
Well, that is my choice. However, I have to think more about it.
See you!!
Friday, June 26, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
motivation in schools
Sometimes teachers think they are motivating their students just because they are doing what is suppose to be done (thinking that they are teachers) but they don’t realize they are working with children, with different minds and more important, different lives. Teachers care about teaching contents and not helping children to grow like persons to make their life easier in the future. This means to face up their future life.
Teaching’s methods are not always the best ones… why?... because professors every so often do not realize they are working badly with some children, and because of that, they can change the perspective of them in terms of learning and the importance of that. Teachers need to know that one method can be pretty good for some children, but what about the other ones?.. this is very important to consider, since in class educators use to motivate in a badly way. Instead of helping everybody to have confidence about the things they are doing, sometimes they provoke in the children a feeling of distrust regarding themselves. Teachers cannot put all their attention on just a group of students; all of them need the teacher’s feed-back because that can help them in relation to their self-esteem and also their confidence.
Nowadays children are being more motivated in a way, but I think that the government’s politics do not help to contribute with it. We are living in competence day a day as well as schools do, and they care about doing well in the national (and international) tests instead of concerning about the children.
Teaching’s methods are not always the best ones… why?... because professors every so often do not realize they are working badly with some children, and because of that, they can change the perspective of them in terms of learning and the importance of that. Teachers need to know that one method can be pretty good for some children, but what about the other ones?.. this is very important to consider, since in class educators use to motivate in a badly way. Instead of helping everybody to have confidence about the things they are doing, sometimes they provoke in the children a feeling of distrust regarding themselves. Teachers cannot put all their attention on just a group of students; all of them need the teacher’s feed-back because that can help them in relation to their self-esteem and also their confidence.
Nowadays children are being more motivated in a way, but I think that the government’s politics do not help to contribute with it. We are living in competence day a day as well as schools do, and they care about doing well in the national (and international) tests instead of concerning about the children.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
where is your mind??
It was really interesting to see that video, that man can catch everybody’s attention… his speech is absolutely awesome, and all the audience was kind of eager about the things and also the jokes hi was saying.
But obviously the most important thing was the topics that he was trying to express. This man talks about “creativity” like an important gift for humans, and how it is disappearing day a day… and… the worst thing is that this is happening because of our fault. We are not letting children think, being originals, or just being themselves.
Children are not being encouraged to use or to stimulate their creativity; they just do what others tell them to do. I think that if this keeps this way, it can block our society in terms of discovering new things to improve the world. We cannot expect everybody to think the same way. Everybody knows we have different ways of seeing the world, and those differences can make the world special for everybody … why? Because if we use our minds without any intervention we would be ourselves… and I think that anybody has the right to make us different or to take part of our minds.
Robinson, Ken. "Schools kill creativity", TED. Filmed February 2006, posted June 2006.
But obviously the most important thing was the topics that he was trying to express. This man talks about “creativity” like an important gift for humans, and how it is disappearing day a day… and… the worst thing is that this is happening because of our fault. We are not letting children think, being originals, or just being themselves.
Children are not being encouraged to use or to stimulate their creativity; they just do what others tell them to do. I think that if this keeps this way, it can block our society in terms of discovering new things to improve the world. We cannot expect everybody to think the same way. Everybody knows we have different ways of seeing the world, and those differences can make the world special for everybody … why? Because if we use our minds without any intervention we would be ourselves… and I think that anybody has the right to make us different or to take part of our minds.
Robinson, Ken. "Schools kill creativity", TED. Filmed February 2006, posted June 2006.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Alcohol price controls would save lives...
I have read a new about reducing the alcohol’s price, because it is suppose that in the case of doing that, the alcohol would turn unpopular. What would be excellent is that the hospital’s admission would be also affected in terms of reducing it too. Most people spend a big percentage of their salary to drink and that cause health problems, accidents, families are affected with their problem and so on.
Something that concerned while reading the article at the first time was that supermarkets do not agree about increasing the alcohol’s prices and their argument was that reducing prices won’t change their situation. Although I think that they just care about earning money, I think that they are right in a way. Alcoholic people have a problem that I believe that this solution is not the best one. They have a problem which consist in an addiction.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/15/alcohol-price-control-save-lives
Something that concerned while reading the article at the first time was that supermarkets do not agree about increasing the alcohol’s prices and their argument was that reducing prices won’t change their situation. Although I think that they just care about earning money, I think that they are right in a way. Alcoholic people have a problem that I believe that this solution is not the best one. They have a problem which consist in an addiction.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/15/alcohol-price-control-save-lives
Sunday, April 26, 2009
mistakes!!
Hi everyone!!
While I was reading the different posts, I have realized that most of my classmates use a vocabulary that is not very appropriate for the assignments, because they are used to write with simple words, instead of using a most advanced vocabulary. In that case, I consider that it would be hard to improve our English in terms of learning new words, and it is also more important when we think that we are supposed to be English teachers very soon. Therefore, we cannot express ourselves in our daily life with a poor language. Nevertheless, I do believe that in the posts you can recognize that in my classmates` blogs the topics have been taken with interest, I mean, I think they are concerned about the things that they are writing, in that case they are doing pretty well.
have a good week!!
While I was reading the different posts, I have realized that most of my classmates use a vocabulary that is not very appropriate for the assignments, because they are used to write with simple words, instead of using a most advanced vocabulary. In that case, I consider that it would be hard to improve our English in terms of learning new words, and it is also more important when we think that we are supposed to be English teachers very soon. Therefore, we cannot express ourselves in our daily life with a poor language. Nevertheless, I do believe that in the posts you can recognize that in my classmates` blogs the topics have been taken with interest, I mean, I think they are concerned about the things that they are writing, in that case they are doing pretty well.
have a good week!!
Sunday, April 19, 2009
…Getting a job…
hi everyone!!
I have seen an interesting video, which shows some good tips for getting a job, or perhaps, for getting the job that you want to.
For instance, when you are looking for a job, you have to consider the experiences that you have had during your life, this could help you think regarding which is the next job that you deserve. at that moment, when you already have chosen it, the best think is to go to the web site and look at what are going to be your next challenges in there, therefore you will prepare the next points to follow, such as: how to project your image, how to look appropriate for the job you chose, how you are going to deal with the first opportunity that people will give you to get that job, and also, if you do not know the place of the job, you ought to prepare your route for the day of the interview, and so on.
If you did well in those points, the next step is that you have to remind yourself you did a good job and also, that you did a impression you are qualified, now the next step is being relaxed!!... After finishing the steps I have already mentioned, remind that for the interview you’d better look confident, make eye contact and obviously shake their hands… this was a very good video that it is very useful for everyone, not just for teachers, this can help you in the future to make your life easier than before, and furthermore, for having a feeling of satisfaction in terms of yourself in an important topic of your life.
…Now take a look at it!!
http://www.teachers.tv/video/27146
I have seen an interesting video, which shows some good tips for getting a job, or perhaps, for getting the job that you want to.
For instance, when you are looking for a job, you have to consider the experiences that you have had during your life, this could help you think regarding which is the next job that you deserve. at that moment, when you already have chosen it, the best think is to go to the web site and look at what are going to be your next challenges in there, therefore you will prepare the next points to follow, such as: how to project your image, how to look appropriate for the job you chose, how you are going to deal with the first opportunity that people will give you to get that job, and also, if you do not know the place of the job, you ought to prepare your route for the day of the interview, and so on.
If you did well in those points, the next step is that you have to remind yourself you did a good job and also, that you did a impression you are qualified, now the next step is being relaxed!!... After finishing the steps I have already mentioned, remind that for the interview you’d better look confident, make eye contact and obviously shake their hands… this was a very good video that it is very useful for everyone, not just for teachers, this can help you in the future to make your life easier than before, and furthermore, for having a feeling of satisfaction in terms of yourself in an important topic of your life.
…Now take a look at it!!
http://www.teachers.tv/video/27146
Sunday, April 12, 2009
scholarships... where are they??
Dear Minister Monica Jimenez:
My name is Marcela Cabañas Gac, and this is my third year as a student of English Pedagogy. This year, when I started my classes at the university, I realized that my economic situation had changed in terms of economic problems, so I went to the “JUNAEB” to try to get a scholarship, and people that I had to talk to, do not even hear my arguments, instead of that they just ignored me saying that I was not able to get anything just for the reason that I was studying my third year. Obviously I could not stand that situation, and perhaps someone thinks that I shouldn’t have said something, nevertheless I do not regret my reaction. So, showing to them that I was angry, but in a relaxed way at the same time, I told them that sometimes could be possible that people at the beginning of their studies do not have the necessities to ask for a scholarship, but that their institution must be aware that the situation of the people in general is always changing, so they should be more conscious about it, which means that if their job is trying to help students to study, they have to offer a solution or a response for everyone at least. The thing is that I was upset since they did not do anything regarding my circumstances and until today, I have not received any help or reply.
I wanted you to now about this, because I thought that you should be aware of how the “JUNAEB” is working and if they are doing a good job or if they are not. I strongly expect that you or possibly the government can do something to not let this situation to happen again. I hope you can understand my situation.
Best regards
Marcela Cabañas Gac
Student of English Pedagogy
Universidad Alberto Hurtado
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