Observing and reflecting today, I remembered, looking at my photos, some of my teachers, with some sketching a smile and with others, I still feel some discomfort. Today, as a teacher that I am, I see that we are a reference for our students, and how important it is, what we transmit and how we transmit it.
We are people and we also make mistakes, we must know how to manage our emotions and thoughts, it is important to transmit in a congruent way.
Communicating and reaching each student individually is an arduous but satisfying task. In the year 2000 Howes, Phillipsen and Peisner, show the importance; of children's interactions with their teachers and how they influence in later courses, attending to them in their singularity, is difficult, when in a class there are 20/25 students, covering the curricular part and attending to them one by one is often impossible.
José Ignacio Moreno encourages us, that we must excite the child with the subject, know it and explain it in such a way; that we awaken their curiosity, help them to work cooperatively, to expose and with these exhibitions, develop their creativity, they need encouragement in learning so that it is attractive to learn.
The media sometimes focus on those alarming news, which sell, something negative, becomes the only important thing, let's not forget that there are many families who also have a hard time with their children, I wonder; Wouldn't it be a good idea to help families? From social services, work conscientiously finding out, the problems that are closed in some homes, many young parents are disoriented and we notice that in the classroom, the family is a key point, together with us, so that those children, come to school with greater enthusiasm. The base is the parents, they are irreplaceable.
Children are reflections of their families, sometimes victims, and that must be taken into account, passed, failed; behind those grades there are stories and frustrations, the best in grades, is often not a happy adult.
Metlich, affirms: “if you do not consider, the emotions, in the learning process, you are wasting your time teaching”, hence the family part, children who come from families with an emotional problem, will not be able to learn, the words reach them and slip, as if it were a trampoline. The best way to stimulate the plasticity of the brain is at an early age; get their stimulation, for excellent learning.
That is my idea today, TO STRENGTHEN FAMILIES; help them so that they in turn, from home; can transmit joy to that child, who every morning crosses the school door with a lost look, and without desire.
I always keep in mind, my stay in Russia, and the looks of those children without families, did not need to be translated. In my home I had that lost child, due to family uprooting, a fierce struggle; devour information, to understand behaviors, and the reality was not that he had to learn German; Chinese and practice in a luxury laboratory, the answer was very different, family ties did not exist and his brain was not stimulated, there was no attachment and with it an emotional inhibition.
Today I look back, and I remember the dread I felt, in schools, they didn't give me answers; they wanted an outstanding and a bright one, but I just wanted him to get to that school with a happy face. The years tell me that the warmth, the attention at home, today have a result, he is a boy with a formation, that many doubted he would achieve, but he achieved it, not all teachers came to understand him, but I remember and will always remember, two, in particular, grateful to José Rueda, a great teacher, who came into my life like that May water. Jose was able to see behind the broken glass, that there was a beautiful rose. Pilar with all her patience, gave me security in that professional stretch and even more difficult, she managed to restore his confidence in that last stage.
Colleagues, let's investigate in the background and when family lives are solved, we will see children who will be, eyes with light. I speak as a teacher and mother, both things, and my experience has led me to this theory. There are many of us on the boat, but if the rudder fails, neither the 9 table nor the acute words will be learned. David Bueno, geneticist and disseminator of neuroscience, wonderful professional, reminds us: “What is not learned in the first grade will be learned in the second. Learning in childhood should be taken calmly, so as not to hinder the brain”
Juani Alemán Hernández.