This video was made with the intention of knowing some of the possible fears and expectations that the English pedagogy students feel in regard to their profession. I believe it is really important to critically reflect upon these topics in order to create a teaching philosophy that will represent us as teachers of any given subject. At the same time, I think that one of the most important aspects talked throughout this video is that all of these students acknoledge the relevance of motivation, classroom managament, assesment, and putting into practice the things that they have learnt during their formation as future teachers. There are no doubts that being a teacher is not an easy task but I believe that my classmates and future colleagues will do an excelent job because they know that making mistakes and being afraid will always be an opportunity to grow and be better.
Sir Ken Robinson is a British educator, writer and speaker. I have always enjoyed Sir Robinson's talks since he has a very particular sense of humour. Thus, this video is not the exception. He starts by saying that most American people do not understand sarcasm making a reference to the American law No Child is Lef Behind.At the same time, he also mentions that there is a high percentage of students who drop out school because they find it irrelevant, boring, and meaningless. Therefore, the question that we all should be wondering is what are we doing wrong.
In order to answer this question, Robinson explains that are three basic principles that have been forgotten. The first one refers to the fact that all humans beings are naturally different and diverse. He exemplifies this by saying that even if you have twins you will know that they are not alike. So the problem relies on the issue that our current education system is planned far away from this conception. In fact, the reson why maths is more important than any other subject affirms that the possibility to be good at something else is nonexistent. Therefore, Sir Robinson states that a real education has to give equal weight to the arts, the humanities, physical education, and so on. By doing this, students can prosper since the curriculum integrates every aspect, and different talents that students have. The second principle has to do with the term curiosity. It seems that during our adulthood we stop questioning or wondering about things, we just accept them without hesitation. In this sense, Robinson explains that children are natural learners and that part of being a child has to do with being curious. Thus, teachers should mentor, stimulate, provoke, and engage this important aspect in their students. Being teaching a creative profession, teachers need to be supported in their labour in order to make the best out of education. Sadly, an important part of the concept of education is learning and we tend to forget about it. This means that it doesn't matter if a teacher is teaching in a particular class, if there is no learning then education is not present. The third principle is based on knowing that human life is inherently creative. For all of those reasons, it is important to understand that we need to individualize teaching and learning accepting that we all are different and unique. At the same time, we need to acknoledge that teachers matter and without them education will never improve. Finally, we need to remember that education takes place in every classroom of this world and not in some legislative building.
Let's set the conditions that will change the present and our future in the education field.
