tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76509123060527106222024-02-18T21:52:10.897-08:00Teacher without vocationThis blog pretends to talk about the main problems in education and share tools to solve them, looking learning from a different perspective. Characters are fictional but certainly part of what we see, hear and read every day.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650912306052710622.post-32868522796361318192014-05-16T16:00:00.004-07:002014-05-16T16:02:42.813-07:0031. The fear of being a teacher<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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name written, so I did not wait to enter home and opened it right there. It was
an invitation to a special event during teacher appreciation week, the envelope
and the paper were very elegant and I was happy that finally my name was
preceded by the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">teacher</i>. After
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questions in my head fluttering like doves in a park, is time to feel part of
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mind all the memories of my student days. The images were not very pleasant. I
remembered the frustration by not be able to pass the exams, dire hours that is
preparing writings that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my teachers
never read, the folly of learn things that don't make sense and that panic of
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and parents, all thanking me for my daily work and for making nice classes. I
received small gifts that I put very carefully in my back pack and then I went
to the offices, where there were several <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>posters that parents and administrative had
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teachers, when I realized that my phone had almost no battery, so I returned to
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attention, I noticed that it was a person, seated, with his head between his legs
and arms immobilizing his body. I approached with care to not disturb his
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but he did not move, he ignored for several minutes, so I started to look for a
candy in my jacket and when I found it, I said aloud: wow, it’s amazing what you
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wind. I had to be more direct in my approach and I hugged him... incredibly,
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find a Kleenex to do a better job, when finally he looked at me, I stretched
out the candy and joking I said that there was not doubt that this candy had lot
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was clear that my cheap psychologist tactics wouldn't work. So I started telling
him<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a story that my students and I had
written for mother's day. It had all sorts of characters, flowers and bugs, I
suppose that I put too much emotion because after a moment he began to laugh.
Yes, I recognize that squirrels do not spit broccoli soup and flowers do not
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at home, my mom yells at me because I play quietly in the courtyard, it says
that I am rare. My classmate steal <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I looked at him trying to not show pity, but understanding. I told him
about my panic I was not doing things right and not to teach children as I
should. I told him that when child was afraid of tests and It was awful to make
angry to Sara Johansenn or Peter Dutch, because that would cost me a fight at
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I saw my new friend and I told him: do you see it? adults also have fears,
for example to be in the wrong place. </span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I replied to Gaby <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would find her
soon, and then took Edward's hand, and asked him <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to make me company during <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the ceremony and sit with me, because I was
afraid to be wrong, with the wrong people.</span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When everything is completed, I asked him to tell me the names of the guys
who took usually his lunch and together we went to teach them a lesson. I
looked at them and told them that Edward was not alone, that he had a guardian
and that if something happened you, I would ensure that their parents knew
about this.</span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When everything was over I lead him to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his mother and asked her to observe him carefully,
that his son had a lot to give to the world, but needed a little help from his
friends.</span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don't know that it means to become a teacher, I know that they are not
only the books, but the exact moment at which one gives is that the cell phone
has no battery, and that there is no one else to turn to teach a child that in
life, we all have fear of something, even <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to be teacher!</span></span><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">When I arrived
to my guru’s house to tell her about my minute of fame front of the cameras, I
found her occupied with her jars full of seeds and several photographs, it
seemed that she was trying to recognize plants, but when I stood front her,
still without looking at me, she told me I looked good in the camera and she
sees with pleasure that there was a
slight awareness on the subject of evaluations. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">I know
that I wanted to tell her about my experience and I heard exactly what it
wanted, but I was intrigued with all the attention that she was putting on
those seeds, and then her photographs. Over time I have learned that she has
the ability to divide her attention, so although it seems that she is not
paying attention to you, she understand very clear what I say, I hear, even
when it looks like she has eyes and ears in something else.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">What are
you looking at?, Finally I asked her,
are you planning to do genetic crosses?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span>She replied me with <span lang="EN">a smile</span><span lang="EN">, and by
very first time in the last 15 minutes she puts her eyes on me.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD">-</span> <span lang="EN">No, nothing like that!, I'm looking at something
intriguing. If I tell you that winter has been more raw this time, what would
you expect about the growth of plants?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">I thought her
question carefully, although I knew what was coming would be a great learning. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">I think I
would say that there will be a delay in the outbreak of the plants during the
spring.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN"> -Yes, I
thought the same, but if I look at my pictures of previous years, the plants re-born
in the same order and I can say that under the same date of the calendar every year. The last two winters were very benign.
Last year, specialists assumed that some plants do not reach to sprout, because
the heat arrived too soon, however they sprang
up without problems, but this year, although winter has been brutal, all of
them follow the same pattern of growth.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">It means
that the temperature is not important?</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN">That seems, at least so far, but no doubt many more
observations are needed. My plants always come with a couple of weeks of delay compared
to others of the same species that are
located where they can receive better the Sun. So the Sun is a factor, but not
the temperature in terms of fluctuations.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0BRBNoXDYNQTQS8AhrdwFEKku3G_25cpyminDlxa9e6QlW2WTOIMa-61l62IUkZDN5TZtFYvtC5f6f-7JM7B5IlzIlaPGpiqqtgF8-dSuGLOHFU3CTlFQcy41Kux3tIDFyvdfrf530Q/s1600/IMG_8973.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu0BRBNoXDYNQTQS8AhrdwFEKku3G_25cpyminDlxa9e6QlW2WTOIMa-61l62IUkZDN5TZtFYvtC5f6f-7JM7B5IlzIlaPGpiqqtgF8-dSuGLOHFU3CTlFQcy41Kux3tIDFyvdfrf530Q/s1600/IMG_8973.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">They are
like children, follow a pattern of development unless the environment is not
the most suitable.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN"> -Exact, I could
not do better analogy!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">I guess
that’s why children who seems to have a learning problem, if there are some adjustments
in the environment are capable to attain their objectives.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN"> -Yes,
environment adjustment!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Yes, that
what I have observed. Do you remember Ann? She is the little girl you helped me because she
couldn’t speak well?</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN"> -How could
I forget about her?, I hope that you have fun a lot of fun learning new vocal
movements!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Actually
we did!, all of us have had so much fun helping her to recognize the movements
of her lips and listening to us when we began to speak slowly. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2dHBETr-csnb-6ZxIz0VMS1tokYUbsUDDnbQKpFDJJrxDN6MkabGfVfmCJ2L7YDGGbKm7aLKnn4HA9eovoio9Cy2u-sEYAz3q6Jt1QhmSSVppjTlIOj45XcqO6p2HUE4k88ettwjbGEQ/s1600/IMG_9131.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2dHBETr-csnb-6ZxIz0VMS1tokYUbsUDDnbQKpFDJJrxDN6MkabGfVfmCJ2L7YDGGbKm7aLKnn4HA9eovoio9Cy2u-sEYAz3q6Jt1QhmSSVppjTlIOj45XcqO6p2HUE4k88ettwjbGEQ/s1600/IMG_9131.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Well, she
comes to my mind because she couldn't talk, and we assumed that she was going
to fail trying to learn, but it seems environment
works with children like with your plants, when we gave them the opportunity,
she showed her talent, and the atmosphere was important to achieving this
progress because we leave hoping that
she speaks as anybody else and started to realize all of importance of making
the correct movements with her lips. Her environment became friendly and she
gave herself the opportunity to try.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN"> -Like
plants, when they have the correct variables, began to bloom!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Yes, so I
see it... I think what you are trying to teach me today is that the environment
is important, even if it appears we bloom later than others, the environment is
important.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN"> -Yes!,
although I had no intention to give you a
lesson today... I have still so much to learn of my plants and environment, but
without a doubt, I believe that we can reach that conclusion, at least for now. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">If parents
can change the environment in which evaluations are conducted, perhaps we can
get an improvement in children's learning, because the tests cause great stress,
even just to mention the word “test” causes panic to all of us.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN"> -I hope
that one day, you and I are able to see that in education, but I think that is
still very far away.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">When I walked
toward my house, I looked carefully all the plants blooming, earlier the flowers
emerge, makes shines everything and I felt amazed about the relationship we
have with the rest of the nature.</span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">When I walked
around the corner to get to the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>school, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with some surprise, I saw vans of different
television channels. For a moment I imagined the worst, Had ocurred an
accident?, Was there an order to close the school?, Had someone appeared dead
inside one of the classrooms?, had a kid committed suicide?</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I ran as
fast as I could and when I was crossing the street, a mother pointed me with
her finger and in a second <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a
camera on my face and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a microphone
touched my nose. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-He is a
teacher of this school, he can talk about it... </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I felt
panic!, perhaps they would know that I am against the text books?, another
mother grabbed me by the arm and began to talk so fast, that it made me feel like
in a supersonic airplane, she told me that a large group of parents was against
the application of the State tests because they caused too much stress to children
and those tests <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>did not count to the academic
notes of students, so parents were considered them “unnecessarily stressful”.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I wanted
to hug this mother for thinking of the good of her child and not only accepting
what everyone thinks that it is right for her child. When I was ready, I asked
the reporter to tell me what was his question before recording: </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-Is it
true that State Tests do not count for the academic evaluations of children?</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">It is
true, nor evaluate knowledge, or understanding, the test is intended to analyze
the memory capacity of the students.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-Do you
agree with the boycott proposed by parents?</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I don't
have enough information from the protestants, but it seems to me that if
parents have something to say about the education of their children, we must
listen to them.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-What
happens if a student refuses to answer the exam?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Probably he
or she will suffer disciplinary action. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Parents
began to speak out at that moment and defended the right that parents have over
their children's education, and if the tests cause them stress and this
experience is not going to yield academically... </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">What a heck?!, I think their <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>argument is pretty solid, I had never heard
parents defending the right to refuse a test. That is not something that is seen
every day.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I hope
more voices to rise because this <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>demand
is not absurd. Perhaps are we putting our children's education in hands that
only see the numbers and not their minds?</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650912306052710622.post-5429049898137153492014-03-05T16:48:00.001-08:002014-04-25T10:20:20.019-07:0028. changing roles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I visited
my parents’ house during Christmas holidays, and something strange happened; one
evening my father called me into his office. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">He does
something like that only when he wants to talk seriously with someone, mainly
about bussiness, and in my case, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that
included when he told me that it should work to find my own destiny, when I
lost my job in his company and when he told me that he was not going to pay a
coin for my higher education, so I really felt the urge to run away when he called
me, but my mother told me I could be quiet that everything was going to be ok
and I should enjoy this moment.</span></div>
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all, he let me sit in a leather chair that had belonged to my grandfather, it was
a well-kept relic that my father reserved only for big business meetings, so
when he asked me to sit down on it, I almost jumped over and told him that my
teacher salary did not give me enough money to pay a cruise to Alaska, or a
necklace of diamonds for my mother.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-Don't be
silly, I will not ask you for money...</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Oh!, I
answered, Could I rest? ... what you have to tell me then?...</span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I see that you enjoy being a teacher...</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Yes, I
think I can say without hesitation that I enjoy it and that I have learned a
lot about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>life thanks to the children.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-I thought
that workers in my companies should have a school in which children can learn,
and they can be more closely of them monitoring their academic performance and
support them better in their tasks. Some of them send children to very distant
schools, so they have so much stress driving around the city and frequently ask
for permission for meetings with teachers, while others, simply decide to
ignore those calls... I think that if they could have the school at the same
building, they would not be so worried about running to take care children or
taking a moment to ask about what their children need.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I thought
that we can take the first floor of every<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>building and eliminate the penthouse for the executives offices, because
they are more important on the battlefield and not in an office so far that no
one has access.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I want
that YOU leading all the administrative roles of education. The advantage is
that children would be understanding what their parents do every day...
cultural areas would be open to them... What do you think?...</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Holy Cow!,
I think rarely a powerful man offers you a job almost from nowhere... I was
about to ask him to repeat every word because surely I had not understood well
what he said, but I could only stutter a little and smile like a fool... but
then I cleared my my voice and I felt kind of scared listening to my own voice.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvA019Nj9FpW3kSeMWUwMM5Q0Uy-BYlmoVCvZIeX6WpBnQ_bXIdAzSJUzTzXFCGg58OAnzJ76LAKcO1TzBoiZSMLwpiAYCtquQbXlGJmEw77wI_Wf4VIiWK4h3MwEqRJCFxHRqEEcTTCI/s1600/AndrewHallClassroom.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvA019Nj9FpW3kSeMWUwMM5Q0Uy-BYlmoVCvZIeX6WpBnQ_bXIdAzSJUzTzXFCGg58OAnzJ76LAKcO1TzBoiZSMLwpiAYCtquQbXlGJmEw77wI_Wf4VIiWK4h3MwEqRJCFxHRqEEcTTCI/s1600/AndrewHallClassroom.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">If<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would agree leading the schools, It would mean
that I could not teach anymore… that would make me part of the system and
instead of working for children's learning, I would work for education.
Students have taught me the world need more hands that put the foundations of a
building, rather than politicians.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-I Understand...
I think your words make me very happy... the plan is under consultation with lawyers,
actually I want to make it work... would you teach in our schools?, perhaps can
you <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be part of the group designing
courses?</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">YES dad,
of course I'll give class in your school!. Thank you for recognizing my talent!</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-You have
earned the respect of many, but especially of yourself during last months. Your
mother is very happy seeing how you've changed your attitude towards life.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Telling
the truth: Yes, it makes me happy to serve to others, especially in the
construction of their future. I know that I can make lots of money with
everything I've been able to learn, but I prefer to believe that what I do in
the classroom is worthwhile. I want that one of my students can earn a Nobel
prize one day or perhaps one of them can cure my cancer or maybe even save your
life or my mothers.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 7.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You will definitely see it. When you believe in yourself, you can believe
in others.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.5in; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Let’s hang
out with your mother, she is very <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>happy
that you have come to visit us.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I could not stop smiling all afternoon... I guess that is
called a professional award. I could not wait to tell Gaby and my guru about
this moment... for the first time I was watching my father eye to eye and we
had a project, our project!, but at the same time, for the first time I had
clearwhat I wanted for children future.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD"></span></div>
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was with that winter break feeling, so I try to stay calmed, and I started a
little more artistic activities with children. It was easy to notice the
importance of art in the classroom, children feel relaxed and they can explode
their personal abilities, some discovered to be good to sing, while others prefer
to play instruments. At the end if the language depends on the sounds, singing
and music are part of the same sensory system.</span></span></div>
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evening as usual, I went to talk to my friend. It is interesting how much our
talks were shaping my ideas about teaching. I still have fear of damaging children
minds, how much is too much to ask to them?, May I ask to little?, If they
laugh too much it means I'm not a good teacher... perhaps there is no a way to
measure success, except with tests, or hoping that one day they become
successful people, but I had to wait many years to answer my questions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">We started our discussion about the exaggerated amount of content in books,
seeking to create skills in students, which lost motivation sometimes, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it
doesn’t allow to repeat what should be learn.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes I would like
that children could enjoy the home works and not just going from one lesson to
another, I told her with reluctance.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Many persons wish
the same, It is not only boring, it goes against the most basic principles of
learning, which shows you the distance between education and learning. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then, should we repeat things more?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When you look histories of great athletes, artists or anyone whom you
admire, you discover there is something in common: they began to build their
skills from a very early age, and took baby steps before becoming masters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is true, although the competency model describes that slow pace towards
goals that allow children to be fit in your environment...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thus they should be designed, but actually only mark the goal, for example think
about reading, it only says that children must be capable of developing a verbally
communicative competence to understand ideas of other persons, but you don't
shred the process. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It begins in the ability to listen and clearly differentiate sounds of
natural language. However you hear one and other environmental sounds at the
same time, like birds singing, or leaves falling, dogs barking, then you must <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>give them meaning and associate them with words
to every sound. The brain works combining all that information, but it does work
from nothing, it needs to discriminate between a word, a melody or a noise.
That helps you to discriminate sounds better when you are exposed to each
stimulus.</span></span></div>
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reading?.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Of course!, and let them sing, encouraging them aurally, let them do play
with words, because the next big step is to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">see
</i>the sound, through signs and symbols that represent those sounds.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have always thought that reading is a visual process, I have never
thought it was a acoustic task.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You are not the
only one!, but when you work with children, you discover if they have failed to
differentiate sounds, they are not able to relate the sound with the symbol,
and that produce a writing with spelling mistakes. This explains why foreigners
can write well, because we also have tools to check spelling, but when we
listen to others and we should <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">talk </i>it
is obvious that we are not native speakers.</span></span></div>
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seen that foreigner children are good when they write, but it’s painful for
them to talk sometimes, because they do not understand some words.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes they
feel shame to say: I am sorry, but I don't understand!, but if they overcome that
fear and try over and over and over again, usually they finish being capable of
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>understanding not only words, but
meanings, and that is the language, which eventually turns into written words.</span></span></div>
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sometimes arbitrarily.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I agree!, if you read about persons who have been excellent in something,
you realize<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that they began with a very
different activity, sometimes far away from what we know, but eventually those
persons find both taste and motivation to try something new, then if you look
at biological models, any one, you can find two important aspects: one is the
motivation to repeat and repeat and repeat something that ending being
automating such conduct that becomes easy.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When cellist <a href="http://youtu.be/_T8DjwLt_c4">Pablo Casals</a> was asked why he continued playing his beloved instrument after 90
years, his reply was that he wanted to "keep making progress", even
if his his talent was recognized 60 years before that. He also said that the
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do that", " Do it again this way"... you should let them
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made me clear in my mind what Iwanted for Christmas: I asked that one day we
could give kids more freedom to find their own talent, because there is no
doubt everybody has one, something in which we are excellent, but there are
those who never find it.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div>
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of Chicago began to feel painful little by little. I started running<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>every morning to avoid the cold, and that gave
me a good feeling, and the best of my routine was that occasionally, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was accompanied by some children, and
parents felt confidence letting them run with me, should not teachers motivate
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cold became brutally painful and to stay away from diseases, Gaby lent me a
bike, the platoon became even bigger, but snow made the difficult our fun, so I
ended up accepting Gaby offer of picking me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>at home and taking me to school, but eventually I convinced her to
convert her Prius in a school bus, and we would pass by children to their
homes. Some parents could not afford the school transport, so we made good
arrangements, and Gaby also won so many blessings. I think that if she add them
all, she would <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have enough for three
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particularly cold morning, I began a mental debate that I dared to share with
Gaby: why should children go to school even in the most deplorable conditions?.
Why could not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they learn at home?, Why
do we have to expose children to diseases?.</span></div>
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idea was to tell me that there was a movement called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Home Schooling </i>in some countries which is stronger under various
arguments included distances, the cost of schools, diseases, and especially an
increment of school violence that find more and more victims, this option also
allows parents to control content to which their children are exposed with.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">That day I
thought much on this topic, around the second week of cold season, 12 children were
reported sick and, of course, the rest were at risk. We started <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eating more fruit than ever and learned to
wash our hands with soap and water, because there are health statistics
indicating this simple process reduces the risk of contagion.</span></div>
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came <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to school with tired faces after
having received the usual vaccines, but certainly with encouragement to learn,
to share ideas and they never were tired of smiling <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the challenges. Those were the kind of children
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left school, I decided to visit my guru, she had been traveling, so I missed
our afternoon sharing a cup of tea with a slice of pumpkin bread, I don't
understand why she likes so much the pumkin bread, but I am always sure we can
have it in return for our talks that always left me something interesting in
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I asked her the same question I made to Gaby: why children can not stay home to
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I think she
looked at me with weirdness, and I thought she was trying to get into my brain
through my eyes, but after a brief silence, that I have learned she needs because
that means her answer is being designed to teach something, she said:</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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give you two answers, both independent, but maybe thinking a little in each one
we can discover that there are more possible reasons.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The first answer
is that if all children could rest when the weather is extreme, the cost of
teachers and administrative services would be such that probably education would
become untenable in a short time. Any region has changes in temperature that
range from moderate to strong, but at different times, which it would<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>create a distinct school calendar... I think
it would be a little chaotic and little viable for these reason.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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answer is less simple but is related to the idea of education. Humans are the
only one specie that puts its creatures for years and years in artificial
environments to learn, or at least, what a group of people believes that they
must learn. Ideas, plans and programmes, I call to all that education, and it’s
far from learning, since many times these ideas are outside the children context.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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what is the relationship between learning and education?, Are we educating
children to learn?.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">theory</i>, Yes, but I think there is a huge
distance between this two concepts. When someone designs a plan, it does it
thinking about what it should be learned and what this person thinks that
children should know and how should they know it, but there is a gap between
what that person believes that children should know and when children can use
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All of us believe children should speak, write, read and learn numbers,
because they are the basic learning and it is assumed that children should
maximize these cognitive tools. But what if a child is delayed?, you don't stop
and analyze why a child does or doesn´t learn. Your program says that you must
follow a schedule and if a child can¡t follow the routine, parents should seek
either external or school support to help that child to catch up with the rest
of the classmates. The problem is student, not the school system.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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is a set of ideas, which are designes to be released through teachers, who are
the depositaries of them, and they manage then in a such of way that children
learn them, from teaching strategies, so teachers are another distinct entity, although
of course, they are part of the education.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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is a process that occurs inside children’s brains, as a response to stimuli
from the environment, which is shared with the rest of the species on Earth in
order to survive. </span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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of the species do not cease to learn, by cold or heat, right?, so perhaps we should
not complain.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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that the rest of the species have other things to complain, because considerating
their exams are about showing the ability to survive and if they do not pass
the test, the cost issimply their life.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I think
then that I see things from a different perspective now. I guess that pushing
children to study allows us to have better drugs against diseases that allow
them to go to school.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-I've seen
your kids more than happy running with you to school. I think you make a huge
difference. You push them learn!.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">When I got
back home that evening, I got a great blend of fruits and vegetables, even I added
spinach (even though I think they are disgusting) to strengthen my immune
system and withstand the cold of Chicago. As Jose’s parents sa:, if we have to
live here, we can not complain, because it’s better to give a good face to life;
and I guess that everyone think <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the same
thing, because children who fell ill were crying to allow them to return to
school to learn... no doubt I was doing something weird with those children, I
was sure that parents will blame me for a children ideas attack!, what will
parents do if these kids decide to be scientists?.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650912306052710622.post-6074827808705538712013-10-07T16:42:00.003-07:002013-10-07T16:44:46.583-07:0025. Please, don't tell me that story<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">History
never was my favorite subject. What should I learn from the past?. I suppose
one idea is to understand that others made mistakes and we should not repeat
those mistakes,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but the truth is that
many of them are repeated over and over again. Seems that some things are
simply recycled.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I am not
ashamed to say that History didn't make sense to me, not to say that I always
made sure to have good relations with anyone who would like to study it,
regardless of whether they were pleasant or not, I learned quickly anyone an
expert on everything, so you should look for specialized support.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">How would
teach history to children?, I could not inspire them if it was never
inspiring!. This idea kept me awake for several days. I was so tired that one
morning I decided to be honest with children. That day after laughing out loud
after reading a story, from nothing, I looked to the children and they thought
that it would go to an unforgettable speech, but instead, I said openly that I
never find my way with History. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I was
surprised when I finished my small confession children looked at me, and
their<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eyes seemed dishes, all of them quiet for a
second, until Mita got up to hug me, incredibly, I felt better, especially when
she said almost in a whisper: "don't worry teacher, nobody is perfect, I
do not I like lentil soup".</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Children
began to smile like when they see ice cream during a hot summer day, and every one
began to say different confessions. From Joseph who doesn't like if his sister fight
for their <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>remote control, to Johary who
admitted that she hates when her mom buys her pink dresses. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I thought
for a moment: What a Heck?, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all of us
have to endure something when we are children thanks to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>parental desire to make usgood persons!, and the
worst of all is that making history... all we went through something that we
hate and not makes us best!.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">When I cleared
my amazement, children told me that they would be the best to learn history and
there was not reason to feel worried because they wouldn’t say to anyone about
my secret.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I proposed
them to learn history as I would have liked to learn it, with movies, games, music
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and jokes. If someone would <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had taught me that way, perhaps I would love
it and now would be giving lectures about the Civil war or seeking lost stones
in the Arctic, but no one made me fell in love, anyone care, I only had to
choose between A, B or C and if you I did it wrong, nothing happened, and if it
did it well either. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">In third
grade, as the rest of the group, I paid $5 to John Mulder by every exam for
answering my tests. He has made himself even richer since then designing tests,
and I became a teacher, wishing to make children suffer as so many persons did
it to me during <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my childhood. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Maybe,
after all the history makes sense, allows us to understand the past to laugh at
ourselves. But I hope that children understand better and learn to feel passion
for something, even for someone’s else life who probably didn’t know a toilet or
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>cleaned <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>his ass with ecological paper. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I did click to open it, a little bit scared knowing that
that would ruin my weekend, I sat down for a second to breath after my race,
but then I said to myself that there was not need to feel worried, if I
understood well the process of reading, then writing it should be based on the
same principle, except maybe adding an extra process, since writing is not just
about throwing letters on a sheet, it’s important to give coherence to those
letters, rhythm to an idea, that of first instance had to exist.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The message was an invitation to participate in the annual
writing contest of the school, no more intended than promote the value of the
word among the students.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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perhaps children could work, at first I think, I was tempted to write a story by
myself, intertwining my paragraphs with children ideas, but that was doubting on
their your creativity, so I ended up writing only words that would give them
some inspiration to the group. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sunday night I called Gaby to tell her my ideas and after
a bit of talk, she <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>concluded saying:
"trust on children talent".</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I walked happy to school on Monday, I explained the task
to the group, I showed them my ideas and explained that this competition required
a story on any subject, with the only one condition that it has to be an <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>original work.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When I concluded the explanations, I could hear the
absolute silence that working minds produce, and everybody's eyes looked at me
with such concentration that I imagined 23 shooters pointing at my head.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For a moment it frightened me that silence, but after a
while Mita smiled and said in a loud voice: "Let us do a story about the
Moon!", and then Johana jumped from her seat and shouted with joy: "A
tale of the Moon sat on a tomato seed "... A<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>heavy silence fell between us, but now my
eyes looked them all... I could only say: "well guys, you think and I
write"… children smiled, willing to enjoy the task...</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once upon a time... a orchad full of vegetables, the kind
of children hate to eat, but this orchard was special, since a group of students
cared for it and gave water, and all kind of special cares because they learned
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how much importar is to attend to the
plants, and the role of bees in the food production process.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These plants was closely protected because thanks to
them, this group of children had won a Blue Ribbon at the fair of Science and
had shown to the School Director that they weren't dumb kids...</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I don't know if it is correct to write that... perhaps we
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These plants were jealously protected because it was a
promise of power for all generations to come, because the plants not only are
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This orchad was so beautiful, that everyone admired it,
and Sun smiled all day to it, sending his best rays for each plant.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But there was a particularly beautiful tomato plant, with
such large flowers that everyone thought that the plant could not hold the
fruits.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">During the night, the Moon watched carefully each of the
plants, and it liked to kiss the pumpkins, and illuminating with its silver
color rays the potatoes, but it could not ignore the flowers of the tomato, who
smiled the same way like when teacher David looks her friend Gaby, with puppy
eyes...</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is not true, I don't look at her that way!, I look at
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</span>angry dear teacher!, This is only to give you a little impact to the
history, Joseph said...</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One night, in which the Moon was sleeping, a raccoon hacked
all security codes that the children had implemented. With a smart phone broke
codes of laser rays and the main computer that kept all the intruders out. It also
climbed with ropes by the internal protection fence and managed to get to the
garden...</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was willing to eat the fruits that had grown so
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The destruction was imminent!, but then all dogs of the neighborhood
received instant messages from the Moon, all at the same time, and gathered outside
the school and they so frightened the raccoon, who left a little shit on its way
of escape...</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shit is not a very... correct word... </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do you prefer saying that it pooped in pants? He asked
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Perhaps we should say that it left a poop trace!, shouted
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">No guys, it's just sounding a bit... violent, but okay,
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">All vegetables survived and were so big and juicy that
they fed all the children of Africa, but caregivers, kept a seed of each plant,
especially of the tomato, which was dropped in the garden so the Moon could <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>care of it, and the Moon was so happy that one
night, lost any fear and jumped, free, beautifully illuminated trying to
embrace the seed.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the Moon was in those days when it eats a lot and it
was s very fat, so it bounced like ball, poing!, and as if it has strings that
bind it back to the sky, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after kissing
the seed on the nose...</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Cochin; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How do you explain when you watch someone running and
making pirouettes really high and landing on one foot?... I felt like that.
Children are immensely creative, if we give them the opportunity, if they are
capable of doing the Moon Kiss to a tomato seed on the nose... Where are their limits?.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650912306052710622.post-25489933192890123672013-08-21T19:45:00.003-07:002013-08-21T19:45:57.731-07:0023. The complex reading process<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I began to
feel a little bit of scare because Mita couldn’t read, no matter how much I
tried, she is an extraordinary writer, but their pronunciation and reading were
still poor, I wasn't sure if I was doing the right thing to help her, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and I began to feel a little afraid for her
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I decided
to seek some help from my guru and after class I went to her house. I found her
working in her garden, taking pictures of bees.</span></div>
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you screwed up your area of knowledge, you should study biology, I told her.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I see biology as a tool that helps me to understand
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-I think
that one day you will have to explain to me your complete idea of the
relationship between bugs and learning.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-I promise that one day we will have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a Jamba Juice and I will explain all my ideas
quietly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-I think I
need it, because I don't know what to do <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with Mita, she can write correctly, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but she has many problems with reading and I
do not know <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what to do.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-Well, I think that I can help you, but you need to know
what part of the process is causing her problem.</span></div>
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</span>know how else explain that she can not read properly.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The reading <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">process </i></b>is complex, first of all, it
is important to understand that language requires to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>recognice every sound of the language, this
is particularly difficult for foreigners because sometimes the sounds are not
shared in their languages. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is done through the ear and the ability to
differentiate sounds separately and then when those sounds are combined.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once you are sure that children can understand and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">differentiate </i>the sounds of each letter,
the next part of the process is a visual differentiation of written signs,
which we call alphabet and remember that there are many letters in each
alphabet and there are uppercase and lowercase letters that although they are
called equal, visually does not resemble, at this sense children should
recognize and differentiate between them all, separating between printed and
written alphabet at the same time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-Then
we're talking about the ability to differentiate 26 letters in the for each
form, i.e. capital letters, lowercase letters, printed and script... it means…
do they need the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ability to make differences
between 104 signs?.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-You got it!, every shape of letter with its respective
sounds and the combination among them.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-Wow!, and
I suppose that this is complicated if you're studying another language.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">- Exactly!</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Mita is hindu, but different languages are spoken in his
country so if I speak on her <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>behalf, She
can read, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but I think that she confuses
the sounds. It is easier to differentiate the graphic signs (letters) that
differentiate sounds, as it requires more care. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now, when you can achieved all the difference, you will
have another process that is to be able to pronounce them correctly. I may
never speak without my latin accent, but I module my words good <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>enough and make people to understand me.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">- why some
people <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>can speak better foreign
languages than others?.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">-Depends on the time of interaction with the foreigner language
and how much <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>young they began. People who
born listening to one or more <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>languages,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will be able to reproduce it and
differentiate sounds than those who do it later.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-I
understand. I already said that Mita has a great capacity. I was so confused that
she <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>could write as well but not read,
but I understand, are not joint process... How can I help her?.</span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">-</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You can do a
lot of for her pronouncing slowly each word and if other children read, while
she listens to them reading she tries without pressure, you should see fast
results. In this case her <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>family can not
help her too much, because she will always hear that accent that causes her so
much confusion, but if they can support her allowing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>her to listen to the English-language
television, and you can have reading sessions with her, reading carefully and
clear each words, she certainly can make it, she has the potential, just need a
little help from their friends.</span><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Two weeks
later with 2 sessions of 15 minutes of reading per day and with her parents putting
all of their effort in the process, Mita began to read more confident and fluently. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">Yes, I
admit that I was willing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to say she was
not capable and let her lose the year, but fortunately I could understand the process
of the reading... children are worth for a question... and wow, reading t is
more complex than it seems!.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I think
that I will look forward that jamba juice... no doubt there will be much to
learn from the bugology.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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and looking for ways of sharing ideas with children. I found out <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that I became an expert to find the perfect song,
tale, or scene to prepare my classes. With a frank smile, I have to admit this:
I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>am becoming a different person, since
I stopped thinking about how I understand or see the world and began to think how
children think and absorb the environment.</span></span></div>
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and years of books in the magic of children's questions and the importance of parents
support of. I used to believe that money was the only important item for
education, but even the poorest people want their kids can be the best
citizens, and they can have an important place in life, and they trust on
schools as the way to achieve all of their dreams.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I think
somehow I began to feel part of that group of brilliant minds who believe that
all children can learn, with the right strategy and parents motivation.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">However, Director is
still giving me ugly looks of confusion and anger when I share my class planning
or when she asks for ideas for school events. I still do not understand yet <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if she feel bad because my passion for
teaching or my straight ideas against traditional education, maybe that’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>too much for her. Finally accepting the system
allows to anyone having a little bread on the table every day. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">When the time came to
create a school green space to planting the product of our science projects,
Director almost eats her cell phone when I told her that children should be
part of all planning. Finally it was their work, effort and care that had kept
alive all the plants...</span></div>
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that children can participate in a school project?, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She did ask me with a horrible look that if I
don't duck pretending that I had thrown something on the floor, I would be dead
right now.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>well, they have taken care of the
plants, they are the reason of existence <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for this school, and many of them come from
countries where caring plants and flowers is not a subject of art, it is a
constant in their living space... Those where three good reasons which nobody
could ignore, at least not in front of all of the Academic Board.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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showed them the map and I explained them the project, I asked them to cook
their ideas during 6 minutes and when time is over they could share <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all their thoughts. Children watched the plane
and began to smile, with that look of emotion that they only get when have
something big between hands.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 20.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">The rest of teachers
began totalk between them, I suppose that the idea of inviting children to our meeting
caused them so many hives as pain to Director, I undertsand they imaged
children screaming and causing disorder, but kids and I practiced so much staying
quiet during tests and they <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>learned that
silence doesn’t mean fear to speak, but respect to each other ideas, so
children could behave as the best when the situation needed, without shouting.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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sound indicating that time had passed six minutes, one by one began to speak,
explained the type of dirt that we needed and then planned where to put each
plant.</span></div>
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sun and water, so this is the best place for them... pumpkins require a lot of space
as they are creeping... Roses survive to everything so they can be here, but
no, wait!, if we put them there, when they grow we can have accidents with their
thorns if we run around, so I think this place would be better for them... the
flowers for bees should be here, so we will not disturb them... this plant
attracts caterpillars, so it should not touch this other... this plant grows 10
inches per month, so we should put it it close to a wall so we can have pulleys
to hold it...</span></div>
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realized that they not only had learned about plants plants <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they had <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also learned expression, planning,
problem-solving skills... which book should have learned that in?, perhaps did
they learn all that in some application or talking to Siri from their Iphone?,
we were all perplexed!.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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realized that children are more than words in books, their minds are malleable
from the environment, and that is the work of the school, giving a good
atmosphere for learning, not the military system that many of us had, begging
to survive and move on.</span></div>
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in children`s hands, it is better to give them the best tools, and without a
doubt they will surprise you!.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650912306052710622.post-5420630361981552572013-07-03T15:34:00.002-07:002013-07-03T15:34:34.456-07:0021. Changing schools for sporting events<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">In the middle
of the festivities and good wishes for another year, it was unveiled the final
list of schools to be closed in the city. A total of 54 schools with many students,
<span> </span>parents and teachers whom only have the
promise that will be relocated in other schools.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">New York
city <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Philadelphia joined in the
implementation of economic measures in benefit of education and childhood,
which means that also these city <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will be
closing schools. Interestingly, at the same time Chicago announced the project
to build a new baseball stadium and a second nomination be hosting the Olympic
Games, and please, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>don't take me wrong my
idea... is I am not against sports, because they are an example of human
courage and triumph, but when you spend millions of dollars on a sports complex
and education is denied... It’s wonderful! Let’s say this projects will give
many jobs.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">From all
these jobs only 1 child from every million with poor social conditions during
childhood, will win millionaire contracts, due to the luck of a talent unique
to throw the ball or get goals, only one will be <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lucky of having parents who will support and wait
for years until one day their dreams will<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>become reality: shine in a stadium full of fans, leading his team to the
glory and signing thousands of autographs, avoiding photographers and having an
enviable life. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">How many Gabby
Douglas does live the Olympic dream?, how many mothers would leave everything
to provide that support?, how many parents <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>would give more importance to the sport than
to school?. Usually when we come running after having gotten a goal in an empty
area with no one else m around and say to all lung: I want be futball player!,
the answer is: shut up and get to studying!. who wants a football player?,
lawyers and doctors earn more, you can not dedicate yourself to vague!.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">No doubt
the Governors projects have good intentions, since there will be many new jobs
for all those "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">have the opportunity
of an academic life"</i>, there will be jobs for those who build sports
complexes, who sell tickets, those who take charge of security, and no doubt
others will sell beer and donuts during the games. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">However, I
need to rub my eyes to avoid seeing <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jose
and Mita applying for those jobs. Why do they need to survive to so much
tension with exams if they are going to finish <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the long lists of unemployed?.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I refuse
to think that the education system can not have other operating mechanisms, Why
do we need to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pay so much money to those
who design tests?, why do we need to pay meetings in exclusive hotels for
higher level directors?, perhaps they not can think in an Office or in the same
classroom where children have to listen to endless litanies?.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-size: 22.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;">I guess <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I begin to sound depressed... I was one of
many who sought to thousand and one pitfalls to passing the exams, and so far I
cannot say that knowledge is necessary to me. </span></div>
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for a chat with Gaby as I start to believe something shady there is in all
this. Although it seems that everyone is happy because our Hockey team won the
Stanley Cup... maybe it would be nice to celebrate those few who found the way to
make from sport a successful way of life, and if you asked them, I would surely
tell anyone of them has needed to answer tests and listened to teachers, their talent
was elsewhere...</span><span lang="ES-TRAD"></span></div>
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{page:WordSection1;</style><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">A program to close schools was
announced a week before Thanksgiving in the city. The Governor announced that
it would close at least 30 schools but he was expecting <span> </span>a revision of the <span style="font-size: large;">E</span>ducational Council, because
the number, far from being minor, could reach at least 50 schools.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Teachers, parents and children took the
streets to protest. Sometimes there were protests against our school. The
children began to ask that they would make if they closed the school. Sometimes
our Director tried to give explanations that ended in a face of doubt about the
future.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">It was curious, when there is not
enough money, Education suffers the consequences, <span> </span>it was like if the State thought it’s not
worth investing in children and public schools. But even when I attended
private schools, I had begun to see one of many problems of the education: It does
not focus on learning ability, but on the resources that are invested and in
this sense, I didn’t feel bad by the Governor, or by the directors of the
schools, but children who would end up suffering the consequences of the
mistakes of others.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">A day before Thanksgiving long weekend,
I told children that we should each thank for what each wanted, and I gave
thanks for having the great <span style="font-size: large;">honor</span> and pleasure of being with them.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Their faces focused on me, and each one
was taking turn to talk while all of them to listen carefully every word...</span></span></span></div>
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<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks for having a school to study,
but above all, for having a teacher who let me laugh.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks because my parents let me study,
they say that girls don't deserve to go to school, because when they grow they
get married.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks because my dad was not angry at
me <span> </span>yesterday when I told him that I want
to be an astronaut.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks because my brother lent me his
math book.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks that the plants grew and we won
in the science fair Blue Ribbon.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks because my dog ate the note that
music teacher gave me by distracting during class the other day. But I don't
blame a dove crossing out the window.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks God for not giving fleas to my
cat, my father said that if he sees a flea <span> </span>my cat will leave our house.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks because my classmates <span> </span>never scoff from my.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks for the sandwich that my mom
prepared me every day.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks for the Turkey that mom will
prepare and because the army allowed my brother to come to visit us.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks because the doctors cured my
mom.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks for the new job of my dad.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks because my mom has not been sad
for several weeks.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">When I believed that Isabella was not
going to <span> </span>speak,<span> </span>she took her turn <span> </span>and said:</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanks because I already learned that I
am capable of doing things that everyone said that I could not.</span></span></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">That afternoon I took a taxi to go to
the airport to enjoy the holidays with my family. Children's words rang in my
ears and I thanked for all those sandwiches that my mother prepared me when I
went to school, by the employment of my father, because I never had a cat with
fleas and despite having all the resources that my father and his empire could
give me, I didn’t fall in something really spooky.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">I realized that no matter whether you
are rich or poor, a student is always vulnerable to the designs of Education,
which aims to determine the future of each one, but at the end, every one <span> </span>is owner of our own destiny.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">When I arrived at the exit of the
airport, I was ready <span> </span>to search <span> </span>how to take a taxi, when I saw my mother’s
driver, as formal as always since I was a child. He was always who took me to
school wearing his black uniform, with those same English manners, but today I
stopped by to see his face, <span> </span>and no doubt
it had changed. As I became a man, he had aged, and <span> </span>I noticed that I knew nothing about his
family.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">This time, I sat in the front seat and
talked with him about his family and thanked him for so many years of loyal
service and everything that had been done by my family, especially my mother.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">When we got home, my mother opened the
door and hugged me as if I <span> </span>were going
to<span> </span><span> </span>give her <span> </span>a pink diamond ring. I thanked her for all she
had done for me, and kiss her, like when I was a child.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">My father was working in his Studio and
by very first time, I heard saying to his partner: "wait a minute, I’ll
call on Monday, my son came home". I <span> </span>thanked him for never losing his job, not being
angry with me when I told him that I wanted to be a public school teacher, to
which he replied me with a smile that<span> </span>he
rarely exhibits: "who said I was not angry?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Thanking took sense that day, I
remembered when I was a child I saw on television a child so poor that it
seemed that he would die of hunger. I told my mother that if one day I found a
poor street child, I would invite him to eat at home, but there was no poor
children around the places <span> </span>we use to
attended, so I thought that those kids didn't exist. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">After dinner, I gave my mother all gifts
that children's parents had made for her, and I asked her if she remembered my
idea of inviting a poor child to eat at home, and she told me since then, she supported
UNICEF in its fight against child poverty with a donation that had my name.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">I thanked my parent for the person I
am, and I explained them why thanking had to be action and not a tradition.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">I invited my parents to Jamba Juice
next day,, and I asked a tasteless smoothie and told my parents about my days
as a teacher, and we did not stop laughing throughout the afternoon. I thanked
them for letting me make my own mistakes, which now had a special sense.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div>
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{page:WordSec</style><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">We did not know exactly what happened with
the evaluatios, I think I expected a <span> </span>kind message that would indicate that we were
educating children in a good way or at least a well done!, but we didn’t have
something like that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Director asked for a meeting in
teacher’s hall and said that our school was between the 20 best schools of the
school district. The document that gave us did not say if we were the number <span> </span>1 either the number 20. Nor said that topics we
should pay more attention in, there was only a phrase saying: school district
is pleased to announce that you are <span> </span>between <span> </span>the 20 best schools in the region.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">I won't deny that I was
disappointed,<span> </span>while the Director was
happy because this implied a budget big enough for another 4 months, <span> </span>nobody talked about our children, or the
impact of this in their families. It was just a passing note that announced
that the school would open next year. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">When I talked to Gaby to give her the
news, she said that evaluation was always the same, and there was only the
richness of the group and all our effort. Had children learned more with the
exam?, be thus, who cares?, seems that nobody was thinking about kids, actually
the program continue and we had to complete it. Evaluations were only a compass
of anguish for all of us and education permission to continue spending money on
everything except children.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">The next activity in the calendar was
the celebration of Halloween, for a native <span> </span>Amerrican is a day of fun, candy and costumes,
but for foreigners is perhaps an example of the American verve.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Asked to children <span> </span>to do some questions to their parent about how
do they celebrate Halloween, and we would make a discussion about the topic. I
never expected that the result would be so interesting. Did you know that in
other countries there are cults to death?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="ES-TRAD"> </span><span lang="EN">In Mexico the
celebration coincides with the Halloween time, and held to the death with joy
and is reminiscent of the dead, it is somewhat between a party and the Memorial
Day in the United States, people going to the cemeteries and provide offerings
to those who left this world before.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">In the India there is a celebration known
as Mahalaya which is a special tradition for those who profess Hinduism and
they remember the souls of beloved persones and adds wishes to this life,
especially calls for peace and health; While other regions of the India
celebrates Diwali which is known as the Festival of lights.</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Halloween is celebrated in Ireland but
but the Festival adds a note of sweet in the shape of a cake of fruit which is
called Bambrack to which is inserted a muslin, which is a transparent fabric
and who finds it is lucky to the persons who find it in their cake because muslin
can predict their future.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span><span> </span></span><span lang="EN">Australia celebrates a Guy Fawkes Eve who is known also
as Mischief Night or Danger Night which is a night of mischief, during which
children wear costumes and ask for sweets from house to house, in addition
there is a organization of <span> </span>dance
festivals and costumes contests at schools.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">In Spain is celebrated on 31 October
the "Magosto" mainly in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula and in
Catalonia is known as the Castanyada.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">In Chile and the Colombia held the day
of all Saints which is a Catholic tradition in honour of all the Saints, known
and unknown in the modern world.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Children talked earnestly about each of
the cults and all exchanged details concerning each of the parties, as well
that of Mexico, Jose's parents sent me a sweet skull and a poem; Mita gave me a
candle by the celebration of light, Stephanie gave me a chestnut and Mike gave
me a traditional sweet of Australia. Megan and Carlos sang me a song that
speaks of a Saint who is called as I do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">I remember with a smile the panic that
I suffered when I could not pronounce the names of the children, but now I feel
lucky to meet other histories, cultures and traditions without buying a plane
ticket, because our activity add a <span> </span>search for videos of each of their countries
that speak about how every country celebrate the night of the dead, Halloween,
all saints, the truth is that it is just a great excuse to have fun.</span></span></div>
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<span> </span>not to purchased, and the creativity
arose so finely that I felt ashamed of my dog, Marshmallow-eared costume. Sure
my mother would have bought me something expensive that I would not enjoyed it,
but today I was child and learned that cultural differences do not exist when
the eyes are <span> </span>open and listening with the
heart.</span></span></div>
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who offered to give me a ride <span> </span>and when she
arrived I saw her face and neck covered with <i>blood</i>, when I opened the door of her Prius, her look twisted my
stomach!. Gaby!, I swear I find who made you this!, but then she smile and he
gave me a bag with something that looked like vomit and <span> </span>said: </span></span></div>
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can go together to the party at home of ¡psychologist ‘s school, I’m sure is
going to be terrificly fun!</span><span style="font-family: Times;"></span></span></div>
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that it was not difficult for the children to learn to answer questions, even those
with a higher level of complexity, and when they doubted, found out the way of deducting
responses based on what they knew it was wrong, I waslearning so much from
their minds, until our mentor reminded us that assessments are applied in
closed classrooms and in silence, where even your own breath can cause
discomfort so that with enough time, I began teaching to children to act like robots and still be ready
for the test. Why does education forget that children are happy creatures?.</span></span></span></div>
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to answer questions, to all of us it was like an eternity, and I guess I not
had realized that our classroom was considered like noisy until Director entered suddenly, opening the door as
if there were a fire. All of us looked at her and when she called me, she did
it in a way that I thought her cell phone had failed in the toilet.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">-What is going on here, David?, your
students are never so quiet what are you planning?.</span></span></span></div>
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inside like if we were hiding a dead body behind the door and then withdrew. I
felt like when you copied during the test and the teacher look at directly to
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and more each day. We had a sign on the door saying: danger: kids thinking!.
Theresa told me that she had already learned to control her breathing as she
was moving the pencil, this was like a torture, but all of them were taking it in good way. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Evaluation day is not far from the
moment in which a condemned to death
knows his sentence, everyone has to pay a debt with the education system.
Nobody can sleep since for weeks before,
everybody around students are nervous,
there are extra hours of study, the stress <span style="font-size: x-large;">begins</span>, some suffer nightmares. I
remember one I had frequently in which I was in the middle of the exam and my
eyes were covered with papers and
everyone in the room laughed thunderously for my stupid and I couldn’t see, nor
remove the sheets from my face, I heard
only the clock inevitably running. I always woke up covered in sweat and
horribly, always happened the day of the exam, that made me even more nervous.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">No child or student around the world
deserve this torture. If tests are supposed to improve the way you learn, why have things not changed with the passage
of generations? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Oh in fact, I retract!, they have
changed!, now everything is worse, and students will have more tests and more
educators take a slice of this business which nobody cares about children.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">The day of the test the security
measures were so extreme that I thought that they would put children through a brain scanner to
make sure they did not have a brilliant idea, one of those that could change
the world. We changed our classroom, teachers we raffled off and we could not
even be with our children, because we could give them the answers (like if that
would serve to learn more), they gave them special pencils, to prevent them to
have tattooed all the answers on their pencils or perhaps on the erasers. They
reviewed pockets children hair, like if they were condemned to death and decide
to hide a clip to escape from the gallows.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">No one could speak, and the silence was
so disturbing for children of eighth grade that I felt sorry for them. I
assumed that they were more comfortable but I guess that everybody has the idea
that they have to adapt and for the first time in my life, I prayed a little
for my children. I didn't care if they approved or not, no one cares what do they
know, I just wanted that they felt no fear. We had practiced much, no doubt
they would be fine.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">The day was so intense that I began to
feel thoughts flying all over the room and bombed everything on its way, I
began to feel migraine and although it was on this occasion on the other side
and I was not the defendant, I could not stop feeling embarrassed by all this
way to annihilate the ideas, creativity and childhood of humans on behalf of a
better future that does not exist. How
come replying multiple answers made me a better person? When children ask me
something I should be able to explain them what they need to know, not to
choose between answers that someone thinks that are correct.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">When we walk through life, nobody will be
thinking of multiple choices, do you want a coffee? A Hot, B cold, C with three
Strawberry tarts , D all the above and what is going on with you?, have you not
ever heard of hunger in the world?</span></span></span></div>
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lemonade with my Gaby at my mentor’s home, they were waiting anxiously for me,
but when I was ready to cross the street, 8my children ran toward me, was so
dull that I was not easy to give me notice that were real and not ghosts, until
they all hugged me and if not for a post I would have tackled. </span></span></span></div>
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they had been, desperately look for lesions in their minds, but their smiles
made me feel better, all of them spoke in order as usual and Dana read their
minds explaining their thoughts: It was not difficult to focus, we were like
zombies on Halloween and we answered everything!.</span></span></span></div>
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should rely on that infant fortress to survive to everything, until one day,
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know if our school would still open or if parents would face the news that
their children wouldn't have a school next year.</span></span></span></div>
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education sucks sometimes, learning is the easy part, and it can even be fun!</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">All our meeting that afternoon focused on
ideas on how motivate to children don’t see assessments as something
threatening. My mentor showed me a research indicating the index of stress causing
evaluations on students, reaching the point that just hearing the word caused
horror to students. But at the end, as they explained me, when you have a job
rarely suffer these stormy experiences, in return, the more ability you have to
adapt to the environment and to solve problems, greater the check.</span><span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">In teachers case, we receive orders and
follow agendas, maybe that’s the reason <span> </span>more and more people write about the
unfortunate teaching profession, reaching the point that <span> </span>miserable a salary <span> </span>isn’t worth the liability. That is true, but I
still believe that children deserve a bit of effort.</span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Over the weekend, all of us thought of
questions and possible answers that could be found at any tests, validate them
and put them in an application in which when responding allows you to <span> </span>see if the answer is correct or not, but even
if it sounds great, the truth is that <span> </span>never stops to analyze the answers. Thats what
we would be doing with children, give them the ability to analyze all answers
together, and don’t feel that aversive, hoping that we could break with the
idea that the assessment does not matter.</span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span><span lang="EN">On
Monday I got to the classroom and proposed a game that we would start each day,
would be a sort of competition as Jeopardy and all children would take turns to
respond. Unlike the common error work in groups, the responses would be
individually, because ultimately, the qualifications are individual, so it
would avoid the bias that trust the abilities of others, because each one must
create them and use them to their advantage.</span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">The game was to respond, analyze the
response and compare it with the correct answer. The group was divided into 4
and they would take turns to answer, the group that could win 5 points had the
right to decide the next activity, which could be reading, writing, math or
science. That would give us flexibility during the class and to them that
sounds like <span> </span>a <i>Prize </i></span><span lang="ES-TRAD">.</span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">I also learned that if a response was
confusing to them, I could work during the day's activities to consolidate
their knowledge. We laughed so much that by themselves began to measure the
speed of responses.</span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">Each scoring what they learned during the
day wrote it in a blog that we improvise on the south </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">wall of the room, thus
creating ideas that everyone saw and of course employed in their own benefit.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">It is true that not all children have the
same motivation, so those who I saw more reticent, were invited them <span> </span>to pop up the questions, read answers, and little
by little all joined. </span><span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN">In 15 days the game was the most
fascinating activity of the <span> </span>day. We had
only 10 days before the tests. While my stomach shrank more thought that
children would have tension, they seemed to enjoy most of our simulation, even
the time stopped being annoying for them. Perhaps it was on the right track,
perhaps would come out well left of the whole process.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">I was checking the schedule of tests
that included State, national and school evaluations and I began to feel<span> </span>stomachache, since I had the same <span> </span>feeling since I was a child, thinking I would
not be able to repeat what someone else wanted me to say always had put me very
badly. I have not been able to understand why repeat what someone else says, or
respond with a letter made me a better person, but it certainly had an impact
on my life. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">When I was able to sit next somebody
who had bought the best test, things were going well and when I got back home,
there was no problem, but when I failed and got less than a C, my father
recited me a litany that I learned from memory and even now I can't repeat
without thinking too much about it: "your grandfather arrived from far
away without a penny in his pockets and built an empire, which I've cared
carefully and <span> </span>you pretend to come and
landslides it, it is not possible you can´t <span> </span>even choose from 4 letters correctly, I want
you to study so you can<span> </span><span> </span>do something even better with the company". </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">So, no, the exams were never my thing,
and now I should be asking children to answer them. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">My head began to spin, but stopped when
I received a notification from Facebook, my father had just posted the picture
I sent<span> </span>him of our blue ribbon <span> </span>obtained at the science fair and added a
message: "my son now inspires others so they can learn". Without a
doubt it was his way that showed me that he was proud of me...</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">My phone rang at that and with reluctance,
I looked in my pocket, <span> </span>I saw the screen
and it was a call from<span> </span>Gaby, how could I
deny something to her?. Her voice sounded between noise, but told me: David, we
are thinking to enjoy few drinks, if you agree to join us, someone will pick
you up, please, say yes go!.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">I said it , <span> </span>I could not refuse something to her. I could
also imagine her with her shoes in her hand, her crumpled dress and singing
Karaoke, and no doubt, she <span> </span>had some experience
with drinks because it was 3 o'clock, <span> </span>I was
sure to 6 o'clock, we would all be vomiting sidewalks... who care about exams?,
I changed my shirt and waited to hear the bell ringing.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">My mentor was in front of the door,
when I opened, she smiled and told me that she and her husband were there to
take me to a meeting, I was on the verge of a heart attack when I saw the car:
a Prius!, while I closed the door I could not avoid the question: is there a
Awards State by buying Prius? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">-No, there is not,
replied her husband, but it saves a lot on gasoline and allows you to go
unnoticed, because many believe that it doesn't have enough power.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">I knew the Prius’s power very well, but
this time, it felt different, the car moved soft and I didn't have to holding
to the seat belt, when we arrived at our destination, I did not kissed the
ground, I was alive and complete.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">When we walk down the sidewalk, I saw
Gaby with her phone on her ear, when we saw us, she waved and started walking
was a place of smoothies called <i>Jamba
Juice</i>, I figured out we would start there to have something in our stomach
before the alcohol flooded in it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">We all looked for several minutes the
menu, except for my mentor, she directly asked what she wanted. When all had
our drink I couldn't stop asking her what she had chosen and why, but she just
said: taste it!. It was the most </span><span>insipid</span><span lang="EN"> which had proven
in life!.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Gaby started the conversation: David, we
invited you here because the statewide assessments will begin soon, that means
teachers and students begin to feel sleepless and rates of gastritis and stress-related
problems <span> </span>will intensify. It is time to
prepare the children so that they will not suffer all that and they can survive
the process.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">But how we can prepare them?, they must
demonstrate what they know, what I've taught them!.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>-</span> <span lang="EN">That is the
first mistake, answered my mentor. Actually nobody evaluate what children know,
education is evaluated, not the learning. We use <span> </span>children as an excuse to measure the impact of
schools and thus politicians can say if they are doing their job well or not. Children
don't matter in this equation. If they learn or not, no one returns and
responds with the tests with calm consideration so children understand why <span> </span>they answered right or wrong way and of course,
nobody will take the time to analyze how child came to answer who believed that
it was correct.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Gaby added to it:</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>-</span> <span lang="EN">The
assessments are only to create numbers that indicate if the schools deserve or
not a budget, everything is a matter of money. But at this moment in
particular, when the State is closing more than 60 schools, the pressure will
be greater.</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="EN">Yes, I had already heard about the
closure of schools, I had not felt threatened so far. How can I prepare
children?. My mentor began to speak:</span><span></span></span></span></div>
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motivation is power, but so far, you've used constructivist techniques that
usually hit the wall at the time of the assessments, as children play in class
and learn, but on examination there is no possibility of interpretations, a
computer analyzes only if you write A, B, or C. don't matter, names or how many
hours children studied. So that from now on will help you to design a strategy
so that the children are familiar with the exams, study together to minimize
the <span> </span>pressure. The worst thing we can do
is to believe that they are alone in this, we have put them in a good place for
learning, but the system is the system, and they won't know how to deal with
this without a little help. </span><span></span></span></span></div>
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and thinking of ideas. No, we did not drink a drop of alcohol, only ate fruit
pies and fill our cups with more smoothies, in my second round asked the insipid
drink and I thought perhaps less sugar would help me o be more creative...
maybe?, because I<span> </span>could not stop open my
eyes with all the ideas flowing in the environment. We were planning a strategy
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">With autumn, rains came and spent every evening after class reading or
discussing about education and science at home of my mentor, I learned to use photographs
as an excuse to teach things, also I learned to use more efficiently Google to
search for information and started to participate in forums about education and
science on twitter and Facebook, and I were with Gaby on two occasions to
conferences in which it seemed natural to address the issue of the Science in
education.</span><br />
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and this raised a movement of teachers. Schools were added gradually, it
threatens a strike if the Government does not find the way to distribute resources
efficiently among schools, but if this is not possible, little by little they will
be choosing and closing those schools which do not achieve certain goals. I was
a little worried about the issue, but for the moment I had to focus on children
and their projects.</span></div>
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most were springing up at an accelerated pace and those we couldn’t see yet, we
gave them more time. We had enough data, photographic records, measurements,
stories. The writers began to prepare reports and we learned to prepare a
poster of scientific communication. </span></div>
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applications to which they had access and began to do interviews experts in Botany.
Every morning we discussed any news on Agriculture and began to follow the
climate reports, because our plants could not survive the low temperatures.
Some of them would have to survive inside and with a little luck, would be
ready for the spring.</span></div>
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everyone would participate in the science fair, but that they would take turns
to explain to visitors the plants. Each one knew not only the type of plant and
its botanical classification; they knew the biological processes occurring
within them, from photosynthesis to genetic processes. They were learning!.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">A day before we discuss all and imagined the possible questions that
someone could make, we were having fun!, there was tension, it <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>was not as a exam which we should respond to
all and the end only would obtain a number; We were willing to share what they
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It was not strange that is granted the space farthest from school to
present our posters, I assumed that children would be designated but seemed not
to import them, Gaby and our mentor helped us to accommodate everything and
both hugged children. We were a team of work and full of ideas!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The first visitors were Stephen´s parents, both Swedish immigrants and
were amazed of the explanations, I think that children shared them a little of
their passion for plants, because they could not leave to read and ask, then Mita’s
parents, and Jose’s and Tisha’s mom and grandmother, gradually began to attract
attention.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Some children asked if it was right to go to look at the other projects,
and our mentor told them that Yes, that it was a time to learn from all, which
they watched, they ask and they would learn after a while they came back and
talked to us that they had seen. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I didn't feel sure about going to see, but when I told this to Gaby she
told me:</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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be very proud of your children, other teachers know that they did their best, Let’s
go, I also want to see!, we can also invite some public <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to come and see us, otherwise, no one will
know that we are here. If they had given us the restroom to present the work,
we would have had more public.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We began to walk and we saw mainly physics experiments, I remembered my
student years, I was always nervous that my model would be well, volcano vomit enough
lava at the right time, or rat run fast enough so it could turn on a 10 watt
bulb. This was no different, the same faces of boredom, the same nerves if anyone
asked.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We began to invite to visit us. We had set that children begin their
Conference at 9:30, when Gaby and I returned to hear them because there was
public, reason why children were presented, explained that his project was
called "making plants" and said that they had prepared 5 Conference:
Botany as a study of the plants, the climatic regions of the United States,
food chain and environment, Pollination of plants and their importance in the
environment, major diseases of plants. All of them were related to explain what
they had done.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">They explained with detailed and photographs was that its plants were
growing, which all were different, explained because they grew up while they
began in different media. They were not repeating explanations of book, they
were using their own <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>words that they
understood and audience could follow all your explanations perfect, such was
the passion with which spoke that it was impossible to stop listening to them,
always with examples, a photograph, a number, a fact.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When children concluded, almost leap when I saw that almost all of the
school was present, only to listen to my children, but the best came when
attendees began asking questions: </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">If all your plants have grown, so can you grow any plant?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Mita took the word and with enviable simplicity responded: No, we can’t,
because how we see in our country's climate map, plants grow depending on the
weather because it is a variable that allows them to adapt better. In addition
Professor in Botany Steve Kolskov explained to us that we must not invade the
space of plants with new species because they can kill native species.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Asked a teenager with tone of mockery, but Jose replied in such a way
that it could not continue the joke: No, we can’t! Because the height of the
plants depends on geographical conditions, for example if you look at the
height of the trees on the West Coast it is different from the height of the
same species in Hawaii.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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to put them in the trash <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>now that the
science fair is concluded?</span></div>
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protected environment until they are sufficiently strong to withstand outdoor
weather, then we number them outside and cross your fingers that rabbits do not
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various people, including several experts that the children had been
interviewed came to congratulate them, we were the most popular at the moment.
The children came to hug me and relatives thanked me, but I could not take all
the credit, so I asked the children to submit to all those who had helped us,
including our mentor, finally she had given us not only time, but the seeds
that made us to shine.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It was Trisha who did the honors: first grade group has much to thank,
first of all to our teacher, then all those who agreed to talk with us, of
course our mentor who taught us how to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">make</i>
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judge me severely, but instead, the Director offered to create a space in the
school for children planted all their plants when they could be ready to grow
during spring and that the Group initiated a project in which teach other
children to planting and care for them, when she finished her speech all children
jumping and laughing so much that I thought that they would have a collapse.
Everything was much better I could have imagined.</span></div>
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and hugged around me. I reached down and I told them that if we gained something,
it was just the beginning of something better, but if we lost, we would try it
again and next time would do it much better.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Award granted by direct vote of the public and they favored us!, we won
the blue ribbon which we named as the group with the best science of the school
project. I asked Gaby to take a picture of our precious Blue Ribbon, which I
posted on Facebook and Twitter with a note that said: my children achieved what
I never got: not only to understand science, but make it funny!, education,
everything is possible in education , when we believe in <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the talent of our students.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650912306052710622.post-5519463712652304272013-03-22T13:42:00.000-07:002013-03-22T13:42:00.698-07:0014. Children intelligence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">How are your students doing with their science projects, David?, I heard
the question that almost made <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>me forget my
own thoughts while I was trying to understand how to print a page in the
teachers room. It was Sonja, fifth-grade teacher, she didn’t let me and she continued
saying: one of my students has a brother in your classroom, he says that his
brother takes photos of plants and makes observations daily, but when my
student ask him his brother just<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>responds
that they are “making plants”.</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Yes!, they have a project about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the development of plants which they liked
very much.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-I guess you thought about their
level of <i>intelligence,</i> since I do not believe that their parents can
support them much in matters of science, right?.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">found very racist and
offensive her question but I decided to ask about concerned before accuse her not
having respect for minorities.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-Well, you know, not all
understand physics. My students will explain about physics.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Sounds great all are doing the same experiment?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-Of course!, what other way
could be done?.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That’s reminded me that first encounter: there are many myths in science
and are taught that there is only the physics and chemistry but also that there
is a scientific work.</span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When the printer finally spat the desired page, I left the room saying
that surely her experiment would be a success. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">While I was walking to my classroom I sent a message to my mentor and
asked her if she could accept a visit after class. Her answer took a while but
agreed to see me.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When she received asked me just one second, as she was photographing a
squirrel. When she finished, looked for a glass, and served lemonade as equal
as before It had no sugar, so she asked me to add as much sugar as I wish. I
didn’t have enough confidence to ask her why she didn’t add sugar to lemonade.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcImPpG4xyxULl8CzEuf4Q5f0jZ8eTtR2jjeFcksWcNsvOtDxRf_6HO3Q78aBiYoKtr5vvz2koyqRg3uKh9PpeSuXFadHO6nmR_e9fY2dTFYV-HKLBftqdkiDa_mGzrA7t6hhxxgliXbg/s1600/IMG_1665.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcImPpG4xyxULl8CzEuf4Q5f0jZ8eTtR2jjeFcksWcNsvOtDxRf_6HO3Q78aBiYoKtr5vvz2koyqRg3uKh9PpeSuXFadHO6nmR_e9fY2dTFYV-HKLBftqdkiDa_mGzrA7t6hhxxgliXbg/s400/IMG_1665.JPG" width="400" /></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I told her that I didn't want to take her time but an idea had assaulted
me and it was the feeling that other teachers did not believe in the abilities
of my students, they were apparently labeled below the standard of intelligence
and that perhaps, I was harming them by making them think that I could do
things like any other student.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Her face changed her usual smile by sadness, I thought perhaps she had
not understood well, but after a second, she <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gave me this explanation:</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-Dear David, I don't know if
you know that I do not understand anything about education, I do not understand
why education is not able to focus on the learning of students, and even less
on how it was adopted the idea that there is something like intelligence and
that it is possible to classify students. Socially, there are three groups that
are children: with talent or high capacity to do something, then come the
children who can do things at a usual pace and finally the children with
special educational needs. Each group has its characteristics and no doubt
their own ways to adapt to the environment.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The problem comes when we
think that intelligence determines what can or cannot do. I think that you
should say: I do this at this way, and you?, or how would you do this?, I think
this would can be this way, what do <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>think?, in my opinion that make us all less
fearful of learn to think that we all do things in a single way is one of the
many social paradoxes of which one day will be able discuss.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The school says: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>things should be made and will<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be made as I say, when, where and why I say,
but we admire those who are different, for example, 10 years ago the Iphone was
a revolutionary thing, now everybody <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>talk about <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>innovation and technology, but is not allowed
from the school. Creativity is wiped out, but worse still, they reproduce myths
that become false truths. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">An example is that science is
only for privileged minds or that in science there are laws, when that truth is
that science changes, evolves, just like our brains, you <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>know now today, things that you <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>didn't know 10 years ago. If you can do
something today, you may make it in 1 month or a year. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">If you ask me to children and
teachers are fearful of making a mistake, that's that they cannot focus on
learning, This is why they don’t ask although they have doubts, "You will think
that I am stupid" or that "I don't think like you". That
consumes us!.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I don't drive a car but have
no doubt that one day at least I will move the wheels!.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My question will get you angry, but I don't want to continue tormenting
me: Can children of minority groups learn in the same way as other children?.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Her eyes shone and she looked at me in a way that knew that his answer
would change my life.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-David, if you ask me from the
education point of view, then the answer is NO, because they do not understand the
culture of programs education, this children must <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>go against understanding the language or the
opportunity of environmental tools because their parents work 12 or 14 hours
per day, they have no time to help them with their home works and even if they do,
they cannot resolve difficulties related to issues that they do not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>understand, children will have swim against
the waves!.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">From neuroscience point of
view, all children can learn because learning is a necessary process for conservation
of the species and this principle is related to the ability to adapt to the
environment. Evolutionarily, we have survived for this ability to adapt to the
environment and for human beings the ability to adapt the environment, but this
principle is shared even by the proteins, which you give to understand that
don't need a brain to adapt. The principle is simple, you adapt, or you go.
This applies at work environments and even in technology, which evolves at a
rapid pace.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I think that I like to see the
brain as a natural prototype able to acquire applications each which requires
them, delete them which does not need, develops, invents, creates.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">So what I can say is that your
children have everything to learn, but the main ingredient in all learning is
to believe in them. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Yesterday I heard no silly
question and their knowledge is exciting. I have no further advice to give you
except: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>give yourself the opportunity to
marvel at their skills, without waiting for them to do this or that, because if
you close your eyes, you will never be able to hear the music, since you'll be
afraid to fall or hurt you. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Children believe in you, parents
trust and look in their eyes a desire to know. For your question, I think that
you need you trust yourself.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I realized that the school closed us eyes, was facing a different
principle. When he was ready to go home I asked her to one day explain me her
idea about education.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-With great pleasure!, I
promise that we'll have this talk. But for the moment, I have something for you,
I collected some magazines about science pedagogy and some others. You don't
have to load them all, you can leave them here and come whenever you want,
because now I know that you take this trial to go home. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I felt as if they give me a Lamborghini!,
I promised visit her after class, and while I took my backpack asked her how
come her dog not barking at me if it didn't know near to it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 7.1pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 35.45pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-Simple, she does not see or
hear but it can smell you, she knows who you are in the same way that you can
recognize it, only uses different mechanisms. That is an example of adaptation.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I ran home and when I arrived, I was not only happy for my physical
effort, by very first time I was able to close my eyes and listen to the music
and I am going to find the way to share it with everyone!.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650912306052710622.post-32888093327016652182013-03-15T15:24:00.000-07:002013-03-15T15:24:00.191-07:0013 Planting seeds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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a garden, what would parents think about this?, what would be the attitude of
the Director?, I had been lucky with the night of art but this seemed to be
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encounter with plants and told them the challenge, the first thing that we were
going to do was going to talk to who would support us in the entire process of
making plants, then we would do teams and some would plant the seeds and then
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one of the plants received a fun and simple explanation about the work of bees
and pollination and the role of the butterflies in the growth of plants and
learned that there are different types of plants, those funny thing is that
they were not classical explanations of books they were answers to the
questions of the children that looked like they would never end. Some were about
the plants, other about bees and returning to questions about the plants and
finally one focused on one of the dogs, which were peculiarly quiet and seemed
that they enjoyed the children: why do your dog just has a black ear?, and the
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differentiate it, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or her mom did not
reach you paint so that it was completely white,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but one almost <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>made me cry: because Tisha, who is an african-american
girl said: God had taken the dog from her ear <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to paint it so<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>her ear still had traces of God...</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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in the arms of our lecturer, she told them that she was blind deaf and that they
should be very soft to pet it. How come <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>didn't I realize that?, I pet <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>it when I was here, when we were outside she
had her harness, it looks so normal… when did I lose my ability to observe?.</span></div>
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that she had found that dried seeds work best, so she gave them seeds from her
little bottles and asked to each one to remember that they were. Mothers just
observed everything, not asked, but definitely enjoyed all the time of all questions
from their children.</span></div>
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I felt sorry for her dog, but she told me that Bubu was an intelligent creature
and even deaf & blind she adapted it to the environment at the same way as
any other dog, there was no reason to pity her.</span></div>
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counted 56 questions in the classroom and you 72 during her explanation, taking
into account that they were made in a period of 70 minutes gives us an average
of 1.82 questions per minute and if we divide among 20 children then we have a
total of 6.4 questions per child...</span></div>
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the questions and divide into questions that have been able to hear from other
talks, which have been developed during the explanations and questions with no sense
or just by asking. With it, you'd be making a cognitive research. But don't
worry, so you need to record the children to make a further analysis of the
sessions.</span></div>
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Facebook!.</span></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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which surprised me because everything was perfectly clear. No more fear!, I
gave myself the luxury of jogging in the afternoon, I felt relaxed.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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had given them and others said that they would dry more seeds. They decided to
work under two environments, some would use dirt and others a cotton with
water, they would compare the growth and as the teams were already formed each
one perfectly knew his work.</span></div>
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parents thanking I was doing something for their children. Joseph’s father
wrote me a note saying that his son was the grandson of farmers in a little
town in Mexico and that this would make them very happy that his son learns the
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In addition this would allow us to use the numbers, of course reading and
writing and graphic skills of expression. They would develop the capacity of
observation, analyzing and solving problems, comparing results, doing research,
but above all, the children were in direct contact with the science... and
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As soon as I got back home, safe and complete fortunately after another
trip with Gaby and her Super Prius, I sent a message to whom so many advices
had given me and my direct question was: how can I teach science to children?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Her</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> answer made me almost fell from
the chair even if I I was sitting on the bed: </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Dear David, I think that your question is a little more complex, because
I believe that at this age, you should not teach science to children, but how
love the science.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In the following message I asked her phone number because for a moment I
had a feeling that this talk was going to take me several hours... when I
replied, I asked her to explain me that in a easy way because my head couldn’t
understand that statement.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">David, you should not look children as an empty bucket that you going to
depositing knowledge, if you think that pouring water to a plant makes it bloom,
just because you are giving enough sun and land, you will find that eventually
your plant won’t grow anymore. Children are scientists by nature, they have a
process that, at some point in our school life, we lose and this is the urgent
need to ask about the world.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Children ask innocently
because they want to know, an adult asks to know if you know. I have an example
of this: When you were here, while I was giving you the explanation, you didn’t
ask anything. Maybe you were thinking that your questions could be silly or
wrong, but if you come tomorrow with your children your task will be to observe
the attitude of them and count the number of questions they will make, and at
the same time you should see adults accompanying them and then we can discuss
your results. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I believe that children will
have more questions than adults, that is my hypothesis.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Can I teach science if I ask them all plant the same type seed and see
it grow?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 7.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That is an option, but you'll be falling into the myth that all
scientists do the same thing and even in science there are different jobs, there
are those who do basic research with the kinds of questions that save lives,
sold millions of dollars in the pharmaceutical industry or <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>respond to questions about the universe. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Then there is another group of
people who translate this and explain it in more understandable words and
finally are those who apply all that knowledge in a less flamboyant way.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">It is currently scientifically
educated citizens who are people who love science but are not scientists, can
be either journalists or just people who understand and give conferences about science.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">At the same time, in science
there are experts to ask, or to do mathematical analysis, others write and
others may report their findings in a simple way for people, so if you ask
everyone to do the same, are focusing only on a part of the scientific work.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I suggest that you ask
children different types of seeds, and they decide who wants to sow seeds and
care for it, others can make comments that includes measuring the growth of the
plant every day, others may take photographs to keep a visual record, others
can write about what they find, and some may finally provide lectures about the
experience. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">You may have teams where
children decide what <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>they like the most
and thus everyone can understand that there are different facets of being a
scientist, similar the work you did with your play, you had writers, stylist, singers,
actors and each found his talent, because in science is the same.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 21.3pt; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">What happens if the plant does not grow? Should I give Fs to the entire
team?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-Dear David!, YOU are talking
as teacher already!!... But that’s what makes us hate science!. There is no
reason to be so violent with the children, because science will learn from both
the successes and errors!.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">If a plant grows, being that
they are on the lookout for everything, the children will learn that there are
four variables: type of seed, amount, and type of land, amount of water and
light. Some seeds will grow faster than others, for example my cantaloupes
sprouted before than hibiscus seeds, and some seeds need more water than
others, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>some prefer the morning light and
to some others it’s better the light at noon. The children can see the
differences and learn from them.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">If the plant dies they will
begin to wonder what did go wrong?, Perhaps more light was needed; perhaps I
should not put juice of orange juice<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>instead water. Next time I'll put more seeds instead of just one... </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Am I dumb or I just feel so?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-None of that, you're a
teacher who learns and who will be able to teach the children.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.0cm;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Will I see you tomorrow
afternoon?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When I hung up, I felt that I just sow the seeds of curiosity and
research that never grew on me, but it scared me to think that in a few years
other teachers of children were going to kill that like if they are killing an
Ant... </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></div>
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asked me if I liked to exercise my authority over children and gave me tips on
how keep them quiet in class. If that was to become a teacher, I understood why
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David, yo creo que tu pregunta es un poco más compleja, pues creo que a esta
edad a los niños no se les debería enseñar ciencia, sino como amar la ciencia.</span></div>
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jump from a bridge with a parachute that learning science and then <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">teach</i> science. My vague memories of it
were limited to the color of the books and find the way make the girl with huge
glasses and horrendous sweaters help me with my homework and then figure out
how to make her to share the answers with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>me during the exam, but I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>couldn't say that to children.</span></div>
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I'm not sure what she saw on my face, but when her astonishment dissipated,
said: look I'm going to take you to meet, you have time right?. How could I
tell her that in a couple of days I would have all the time in the world?.</span></div>
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that if I had been a marble in a box, I would have bounced by every possible
angle. I am not sure if I kissed the floor when she stopped in front of a house
close to the school; in fact, I remembered that I had stepped in front of it.
The Windows were large and it was possible to see someone almost always
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that we were there, who opened was a person of dark skin and Brown eyes,
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strange accent, I was sure that she had said "sheaves"... I had to
say very politely: excuse me?.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">-Doesn't matter, come, and I think you can help me, I cannot ask Gaby to
step into the mud, but my tomato plant needs help and physics can do the job. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">wasn’t sure if I had
understood: what was the relationship between the sheaves, a tomato plant and
physics?. The only one clear <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thing was <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that Gaby wouldn't get dirty her heel shoes. </span></div>
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Gaby that she could see from the window... was I faced with a kidnapping situation?,
perhaps she could use the ribbons to tie my hands...</span></div>
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of them seemed to have grapes and then my eyes saw something that I never
imagined: a plant filled with tomatoes!, I always thought that they were born
in the boxes where they <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are displayed in
the supermarket.</span></div>
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the angle to make sure that “the force of support can sustain the plant"
and then she measured again to be sure about the "length to determine the
best angle of support".</span></div>
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the way in which she predicted and held it in a way that no leaf was hurt, the
plant seemed happy.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When we finish she cut reddest tomato and gave it to me, and said: you
have earned this, thank you for your help!.</span></div>
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</span>to ask her <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if she taught science,
but she smiled and said with a quiet voice: No David, I study learning, and I
think that you've already seen much well it works when you <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>applying the right strategies, children not
only learn, they also enjoy it.</span></div>
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you've earned a glass of lemonade too, but you’ll need to add sugar.</span></div>
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and then Gaby. There were books and journals of science, computers, pictures,
lots of pictures!, but what caught my attention were some little bottles in a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>jar that I had to look closely. When Gaby saw me
almost with my nose inside the jar she asked me: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>do you know what is that?... they were had all
kinds of seeds inside and seemed each bottle was labeled. </span></div>
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seeds?... and then I heard as music: they are my scientific experiments, I'm
trying to benefit my garden, and then she began to open and show me each bottle,
thinking perhaps that I understood what she was saying, but my excitement was
even greater when I realized that she was my guru and that she was directing me
on my way through science.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When I finished watching, I said: see, I'm going to teach a biological
marvel!, we went outside, including her two dogs and showed me a plant filled
with butterflies and bees... I'm trying to create a friendly garden for bees, aren’t
they beautiful?.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">- B</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">eautiful?, it was beautiful to
see science in action!. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Would it bother you show this to my group of children?, - I asked her with
a little sorry... maybe they could come after school, and you could perhaps
explain everything about how you do all this?, but she smiled and replied: it
will be a great pleasure, the children will love it!.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I realized that when you want to, science can be fun!, isn't it
incredible?. I had my first science class and there was no need to kidnap me!.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I was ready to go home, If I could survive to the Super Power of Gaby’s
Prius with her on board!</span></div>
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were petals of roses. My main assistant had everything on time and in order and
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the program, hoping that parents do not feel ashamed of artistic deficiency of
their children, because my group was listed as low-profile. It was not clear to
me what that meant until Director, grabbed me by the arm and whispered to me:
How did you make this children acting?.</span></div>
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the stage. I could not believe that she was there, with her high heels shoes
and her silk dress!. She stretched the program and told me: Can you give me
your signature, please?, I smiled as few times I had done so and when she
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650912306052710622.post-5777071711815175182012-11-14T10:17:00.000-08:002014-04-04T13:50:26.834-07:009. Teaching linguistic competencies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Pedagogy textbooks explain that children learn under epistemological
proposals very difficult to understand and inapplicable in a real classroom, but
experience so far, tells me that if a teacher puts a big smile and motivate
children to do something cool to learn and we can find the way to make them
feel an important part of that project, where they have so much fun that it’s
easy to forget how much they are learning, we can make apart all the amazing
and expensive books.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL8DSAaF5yy6MuHJS2TBeyHQ-LxLhPfvBJX_ccruZrl1WBHSHGOzHZB-HI1wAZMFuPwN27dGm5yb3VLRl3SJeopPtjbfq0Qr8PwcR7jqz1kRmXpItUeb3fNh2QiE9y9gP0Q71jElQKsKI/s1600/P1190328.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL8DSAaF5yy6MuHJS2TBeyHQ-LxLhPfvBJX_ccruZrl1WBHSHGOzHZB-HI1wAZMFuPwN27dGm5yb3VLRl3SJeopPtjbfq0Qr8PwcR7jqz1kRmXpItUeb3fNh2QiE9y9gP0Q71jElQKsKI/s400/P1190328.JPG" height="300" width="400" /></span></a><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our theater project thrilled them more than I expected. As soon as I
arrived to the classroom next day, I plugged my laptop to the projector and
started to explain them that we needed a project, and I told them all my ideas.
I began explaining our to-do list that I had prepared and the profile of each
participants and I could not wish more enthusiasm. I began to see raised hands
to cooperate, to do, to think, and share ideas.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were so much participation that
my assistant director had to jump from his chair and give some order. I believe
this child born being a leader. I didn't have to tell him what he had to do
from his position. There was a moment that he stood up, wrote something on a
piece of paper and hanged it on the door helped by his own assistant. I
preferred to not read the message; I knew that it would take me a surprise.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ideas floated everywhere, from pumpkin possessed by dark energy, to trees costumed
as rabbit with pumpkin hats. Even for a moment I could see running down the
classroom a naked tree searching its leaves. Each idea allowed us to focus more
and more our work, until after two hours, we had written, edited, searched on
the internet read, learned two new words and still had mood to review a couple
of books that we found. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I slow down for a second while I was packing my laptop at the end of the
class and I thought how much we had done that day in matters of language. A
single book would not have been able to give us so many excuses to laugh so much
and at the same time advance our project. Before going home a girl back to my
place and told me in secret: "Thank you!”</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">When I asked why I was grateful, she replied: "I hate acting; I prefer
to be in charge of the scenery.” I gave her back the smile and told her that I
had no doubt we would have the best stage.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was a sheet with almost drawn letters saying: "Do not interrupt, we're
thinking big ideas.” I tried to remember when at my own school life, I had a
great idea and more importantly, a great idea to share with my classmates.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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corny, I know, but I couldn't believe the impact of our small school project.
If a film maker would be in our classroom, viewers would have seen all sorts of
images jumping all over the screen and a voice saying, "no, but then this
other idea may be better", and we would have seen the first idea fade and
another would occupy the center stage, as Bob Ross’s work, with happy elements
flowing, but best of all is that the creators of all that were children interested
in the English language.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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been the creative session. I received her reply when I was opening the door of
my apartment: ¨when a child smiles while he or she learns is a good sign that
you're doing the right thing¨.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">When I came in the director’s office I met so many books that I felt like
in a library. I had reviewed some of the titles, others were new topics. So
much information about education seemed enough to educate the complete world,
so I can’t understand why does everybody talk about the crisis of education?.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">When the director take off the phone from her ear, I was sure that she
would toss it on my head, but instead she placed it carefully and sat staring
me in the eyes and said without pause: "I need that you plan an activity
for your group to share during the event that will be conducted on the occasion
of the celebration of autumn. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">It may be an activity shared with parents, maybe
a play or a musical".</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I was silent, only I could ask her when did she wanted it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I asked her if I could decorate my classroom, which seemed a sterile
environment for learning. She looked tired, and said I could decorate it, if I
was sure nothing can be taken as cultural discrimination.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I ran away as child who had avoided a scolding, while walking home, I sent
an email to Gaby to ask for advice; I had a lot to do that afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Gaby:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Can you help me?, I plan something for the children for the fall event. I
also want to decorate the classroom; you know that I can't do it without you.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Two minutes later she replied me:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">David:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Tell me that you need and based on that I can determine how to help you,
we're a little busy with conferences, but I always have time for you. Just
please do not ask me to help you decorate your classroom, my heels and silk
dresses don’t match with manual activities. But I'm going to send copy to your
guru, I’m sure she will help you. Just I ask you to have a little patience, she
is writing an article that has made her knots.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">When I got back home I sat down to think options and then received an email
from my guru:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Dear David:</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Theatre can be an inclusive activity, the important thing is not to force
children to do something they dislike, not all children like dress up, or sing,
or talk in public, but imagine that you propose this task to children and tell
them that each one can choose their role. You need actors, actresses, singers,
musicians, someone in charge of the costumes, decoration; you need someone who
is aware that everything works. If someone does not want to participate in any
of the above activities that person can be your assistant. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">I imagine that one of the skills you must develop in your child is reading
and writing, so you can perfectly take this and ask them to write the work,
only give them the theme of the autumn and all can feel integrated, pleased
with the work and part of a creative project, while you are developing their skills. If you integrated the idea
parents, children may feel more support.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">About </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">the subject of decoration, ask children what do they want
to see every day, but don't forget that stimulus all over the classroom is a
two-edged weapon: it can block the attention on what you are saying to them. In
addition, if the brain looks at something for a long time, it loses the sense
of novelty. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">My recommendation is to use items that are not only a decoration,
they send signals to the memory and thus to the learning process. I suggest
that the decoration has to do with what you are studying in class during the
week, in a way that you take advantage of the space and the classroom becomes a
forum for learning, unless the view is directed at a single point. Have you
been in an Apple store?, every place has an intention!. You can take advantage
of the landscape and the environment. Ask the children something allusive to
each topic. You don't have to buy anything, you can ask them dry leaves if your
theme is biology, or everyone can cut out a letter or a number, or sharing
something that has caused them admiration in a way that all feel integrated,
and part of the class. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">My final advice is... maybe your learning scenery can change with each
topic, and thus aid to learning to use more brain pathways, not only listening
to what you say to them, but the view,
which reinforces what they read. The brain likes to learn, but sometimes it
needs a little help.</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">What the hell was to do the brain in all this? I decided that it was going
to be a question that I would personally ask when I would have the chance to
meet my guru. Wow, in a few words she had solved my dilemma, and she was busy
with an article. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">I replied her that her counsel could not be better and I hoped she could
finish soon with her article.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn't wait to share the idea
with the children!. I saved my laptop because we were going to need it to write
the screenplay. Hey, could not believe it!, was excited to write a script for a
play school!, I always hated acting, singing made me vomit, but I always liked
to write scripts. Perhaps only it was necessary to find my talent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
did some educational practices that pushed into classrooms while I was a
student, but the feeling of being front a group is something quite different,
it‘s an indescribable responsibility. the eyes of children when they entered to
the classroom made me wish to run away, but an innocent question convinced me
it was worth to try: <i>are you we going to teach us to read more than tales?</i></span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">More
than tales?... Didn’t they know all my problems to read their names?.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
started asking them to choose a card and writing their names on it, and placed
it on their chest where everyone could see it. They were fascinated just like
me by the colors. It seemed as if they were seeing by first time the mountains
of Colorado or an Iphone. I asked to tell one by one their names and their
favorite song. We spent the first two hours between new sounds and many laughs.
I was kid again!. </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">During
the lunch recess, children were proud showing their cards to other children, I
look at them with some sense of pride until I was interrupted by the director and
the school psychologist: “what is <b><i>it</i></b>?”, psychologist asked me.
The question seemed silly but completely relaxed I told her that they were
colorful cards in which the children had written their names. The Director
looked at me and I could clearly feel as her eyes were piercing in mine, and said
in a loud voice, as if she were talking to her phone: “I thought it had become
clear that this is not a school in which the differences are allowed. Colors
cards are prohibited, you may use cards of the same color, but do not make differences
between children”.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I
could not believe it, but I kept calm, and answered her as if I knew what he
was talking about: there would be discrimination if not all children would have
cards, but all of them chose the card they wanted and they all have one. If you
want one, I can give you one. That was the first time that I understood why sometimes
simple things become complex.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Both
professionals of education began to walk, and without looking at me the
Director said almost in a shout: “I will be waiting for you this afternoon in
my office”.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">When
we returned to our classroom, a girl gave me a candy: "I kept it for you"
she told me with a peaceful innocence. I took it as if it was the key of a
Lamborghini, and I could only say thank you.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">During
the last hour, almost I could pronounce all the names, there were only two
Latin children whose names were riddled with Rs that could not speak clearly,
but I decided that before the end of the week I would have everything under
control. Finally, there is nothing more meaningful to someone call you by our
own name.</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">At
the end of the class, I looked at the bare walls of our classroom and I thought
it would be good to have a little color, but I remembered that the Director
wanted to see me. Perhaps I should you request permission to decorate it?. It
saddened me a little that children felt well with me during our first day and a
couple of weeks the Director could ask me to leave.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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