Questions! after reflection!

Why was it important to explore and be aware of your beliefs about teaching a L2?

Throughout years, one’s way of thinking changes every single day, and thinking a bit of our beliefs about teaching is a matter that should be keeping us aware, one thing is true, one as a single person, a human, is programmed genetically to develop a nature, a very unique nature, and that is what is hard to change, it will be present every day you teach and every day you live. But no matter what is our nature, one should transmit what we think is the best for others, what should we transmit and for the good of our people and country, do it in the best way possible. That is why exploring ones beliefs about teaching is very important to see if you’re doing it right or wrong, it is important as well what others think about my beliefs and know what are my partners beliefs.

After your decisions today about teachers and students beliefs, ask yourself a question… and answer analytically.

From your point of view, how would be the ideal teacher according to the models seen in class?

A teacher is a compound, a recipe of many ingredients, and from my point of view, the first step to the ideal one; autocratic, because looking like a dictator makes think your students believe in what you’re saying, at least to be quiet, by the way, the fact of being a dictator makes your students a “sponge”, or a ball of clay to be shaped; next, and what  contradicts that part of the dictator is the democratic, well, one must be aware of the students beliefs of the class, something has to be done if the class sucks, and that’s one as a teacher must let know the class that they have that right, of putting forward their rights. And the last part, the laissez-faire, once you know your students, you let them fly little by little, focusing on their abilities as the multiple intelligences, critical thinking, without letting the anarchy get to our classrooms!