jueves, 7 de febrero de 2019
getting back!
After a looonng time off working on this blog. Now I´m getting back with new toughts and fresh ideas to saher with my fellow teachers. I hope you find them usual to be applied at your everydat t
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Quotes for Teachers
A teacher is one who makes
himself progressively unnecessary. ~Thomas Carruthers
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. ~Tracy Kidder
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams
A good teacher is like a candle — it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. ~Margaret Fuller
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~Amos Bronson Alcott
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ~John Sculley
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown
A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. ~Gail Godwin
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ~Horace Mann
Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid. ~Tracy Kidder
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. ~Henry Brooks Adams
A good teacher is like a candle — it consumes itself to light the way for others. ~Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. ~Margaret Fuller
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. ~Amos Bronson Alcott
A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism. ~Louis A. Berman
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children. ~John Sculley
Good teachers are costly, but bad teachers cost more. ~Bob Talbert
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. ~Edward Bulwer-Lytton
A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image. ~Author Unknown
What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches. ~Karl Menninger
Teaching should be full of ideas instead of stuffed with facts. ~Author Unknown
A cross-eyed teacher can keep twice the number of children in order than any other, because the pupils do not know who she's looking at. ~Four Hundred Laughs: Or, Fun Without Vulgarity, compiled and edited by John R. Kemble, 1902
Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. ~Eugene P. Bertin
martes, 23 de diciembre de 2014
Distance Education
DISTANCE EDUCATION
Introduction: Distance education is an academic learning
method in which the teacher and the student participate in a convenient manner,
while sometimes in different places at different times.
Distance education is a method in education
in which the learner is physically separate from the teacher. (According to Greville)
For some time distance education in the past
was more usual by mail and telephone, as Willen (1981) defines distance
education as “ a form of education where oral instructions has a rather
subordinate role and it’s concentrated to a few intensive periods spaced
throughout the term or academic year. In between these periods the student
works at home on its own, but with the possibility on consulting the teacher by
telephone or letter” (1981, 244)
Over the years thanks to the development of
internet distance education has already been adopted with more quality and
improvement. One of the main characteristics of this education model is the
time flexibility offered, this way the student can organize his or her own time
to take classes, but demands a certain discipline and commitment to achieve
what’s required from the teachers.
Discussion:
1.
My understanding of what is
involved in distance education: I truly believe that distance
education requires a compromise from the students to have a self- learning
direction. The teacher’s guidance it’s important as well to facilitate learning
that helps students to reach knowledge, competencies and quality attitudes to
meet the standards of quality education that our society demands. Also the academic background of the students
plays a big role on completing a course on distance education as Coldeway(1986)
and Coggins (1988) determined past experience in college and grade point
averages to be significant variables which discriminate completers from non-completers
in external degree programs. Also the time management from students is
essential to achieve distance education; students complying on time with their
tasks and teachers giving feedback on time.
2. My motivation
to complete the program successfully and receive my Licenciatura: Basically my motivation to complete this
course is to be more prepared in the professional field, and to provide a
better future to my family as I stated on my personal page. By receiving a
licenciatura my job opportunities will increase and I will have the opportunity
to earn a better salary.
3. My role as a
student. As a student I understand that I have to be an active researcher and to
have self- study abilities in order to succeed. Be able to give positive and
critical feedback in the forums with the other students, interacting in a
professional way giving deep feedback not just sentences of agreement.
Complying with the tasks on time meeting with the grading criteria given by the
teacher and being an active participator are also my responsibilities as
student.
4. My
expectations of the tutors in this program. My expectations from my tutor in this program
is to have the support to understand better the tasks given, with clear
instructions and to give me feedback on weaknesses or areas to be improved.
5. My capacity
to read academic texts for critical understanding. I think my capacity to extract main ideas
from readings is ok, although it takes me time to do it. My main difficulties
have been some dreadful articles when the information is presented in an old
style. I can overcome these difficulties by reading more academic articles.
6. My capacity
to express my ideas in writing in English. My capacity to express myself in English in
a clear way has been improved over the last years since I have taken courses in
education in Spanish and English, so I think I can be clear when it comes to
express my own ideas in English.
7. My ability to
manage my time so that I can fit in my LIMSEDILE studies. I think I need to be more organized and
manage my time better to be honest. So far I have accomplished with all my
activities from the induction course at LIMSEDILE, with a day before the
activity it’s required, but I think I need to work more on this, especially
with all the work I have right now at my school and my functions as an English
Department coordinator. So from now on my plan will be to dedicate at least two
hours of the day to work on my education online.
8.
Computing
skills and technology. As a right now I think I have the skills need
it to be part of this Licenciatura, although at the beginning I didn’t read
instructions, and maybe my personal page wasn’t done property because I was
using a google chrome as a web navigator and not internet explorer as it was
suggested. So now I will read instructions carefully.
Conclusion:
In recent
years distance education has experimented a significant growing, and many
institutions are committed to its impartation to ensure their students raise
their professional level. Now with the advance of technology in information
this module allows a more interactive and flexible learning.
Distance
education it’s characterized by:
1. Students developing more autonomy and time
management.
2. it’s a complementary formation with any other
academic subject.
3. You can learn comfortably from your home or
work.
4. It is a
dynamic and fast means to achieve the professionalization of a specific field.
Distance
education can be applied in four fundamental ways. As a teaching aid, direct support to
learning, as an analytical tool to systematically think about education, and as
an intellectual investigation inquiry.
Distance
education requires a two way communication and commitment from both, teachers
and students in order to achieve its mission.
Bibliography:
1 Learners and
Learning: A discussion of select Research/ Chere Campbel Gibson
2 On defining
Education: Greville Rumble / the American journal on Distance Education 1989
3 Asynchronous
Electronic Communications / A north American Thai Collabotration
4 Inclusions
in Bibliography / Consuelo Ruiz Esparza
5 Background
and Overview of Contemporary Distance Education/Michael G. M
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