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1. Discuss your abilities and significant characteristics that would make you a good
teacher. Make a description of your character in which you include information
about your personality traits, the things you like to do and how being a virtual
language student makes you feel, especially in relation with the learning of English
online. Include all relevant data that can help you complete this task.
I have always considered the teacher profession as one of the most important for the
development of any society. On teachers’ shoulders is the formation of new generation not
only for they transmit knowledge and minds are taught, but also the role of educator and
trainer they play.
I’m Jenny Jimena Bohorquez Rodriguez, I’m an English teacher at Guillermo Quintero
Calderon School, I teach at Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Grades. This process of teaching and
learning has been difficult because my students barely internalize their knowledge in the
sixth grade, actually at elementary school they have not seen enough and therefore the
motivation they have to this subject is little or absent. Therefore, I think that, for a teacher,
it must be very important to recognize that in order to educate, a teacher has to be educated
first, never stop learning, innovate, create methodological strategies that capture the interest
of students, but foremost be patient, because nowadays the child or young student is going
with the sole idea of playing but not with the idea of learning.
If we are successful at this, communication skills and language abilities in students can be
developed, and also we must be a model for accuracy and fluency. Another aspect is to
follow the triangle of teaching-learning process: teacher-student-teaching field, leading to
assess and analyze situations that arise in each of the moments before, during and after
class, process components learning are vital. On the other hand, the teacher should be
characterized by large and small internalize their findings presented in the classroom to
improve his teaching performance.
Besides this, it is also important that a teacher must recognize and apply the different
methodological skills that are needed in teaching English as a foreign language such as:
communicative competence refers to language skills, psychological, cultural, educational
and to develop social skills in the students of a functional and interactive way. Teachers
applying this competence is characterized also developing language skills, socio-linguistics,
strategic, and discursive in the students.
Understanding the different characteristics a teacher of English should have, I consider
myself a responsible teacher, I am interested and concerned for my students to learn, I try
to innovate and create strategies that help my students understand the contents or language
functions, sometimes featuring videos, issuing guides, activities which develop the four
language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking). In a way, I'm patient and look at
how the students internalize their knowledge, I am not a teacher that likes to feed them with
many topics during the school year, I think those topics should be taught little by little but
well learned, although sometimes, I feel pressured by time, standards and schedules that
must be met.
My traits in the personal aspect, I´m a homebody person, I consider myself an organized
person, I like watching movies, listening to music, cooking, I love dancing, I am a woman
of a few friends, but those I have I give value and I respect them as my own brothers, I am
sincere, responsible and I assume the tasks assigned to me or suggested to me.
Actually as a teacher, I would like to be a little more risk-taking in teaching process, not to
feel so pressured and stressed, get to know these students and motivate them little by little,
so that they study more and help them like the subject I teach. Talking about my skills, I
would love to master perfectly my speech, I sometimes feel a little afraid of it. On the
virtual aspect, I feel that my learning process has been very empowering because it has
allowed me to improve in my concepts about the English teaching and learning and how to
put them into practice in or out the classroom, at the same time, it has allowed me to
improve the management of the different technological tools to be able to make several
tools and aids so that I can create my own bank of technological resources, and thus
motivate my students to learn English without feeling the pressure of a grade and they will
gradually discover the importance of learning English.
2. Talk about common situations at school. Use the Simple Present, Simple Past and
Comparative Adjectives to describe a problem, challenge or unusual situation you
experienced in your school life. Please describe how this personal experience can be
compared to learning online and how you can make an impact in your students’
lives by contrasting this own learning experience to current language learning
conditions. Consider talking about the possibilities that youngsters have of using the
Internet now and what you did to get information in your school years.
Reviewing some of my memories during my school life I always had a fear of English
language, and I had some difficulties learning the few things in the program. I graduated
from high school and remained with these learning gaps but when I got my BA in Spanish
and Communication at University of Pamplona, I felt the need to do other things, and then
I joined a group of colleagues and friends from the university to take a course in English. I
really took it as a distraction and as a means to kill my free time. But to my surprise, in this
process I could notice that my colleagues had a much better level than mine, and I felt a
little frustrated, then after I reflected on that, I started to fill that big gap, and without
realizing, little by little I was falling in love with the methodology applied in the teaching.
We as learners of the language, were happy using the resources (videos, flash cards,
games, etc.) and I felt how the process itself was strengthening my knowledge and skills, of
course, some more than others. After analyzing these achievements and seeing the need
there was in the institution where I used to work, I began my first steps as an English
teacher. Without leaving the side of self-study, I have resorted to various online courses
that SENA was offering, diagnostic tests and training by the Ministry of Education and
some other custom courses I had taken, these experiences strengthened my work as a
student and teacher. Thanks to that process, I felt led me to resume my life as a college
student, study again, although online learning has not been easy to deal with. But I can see
that it has allowed me to acquire more security in my process of teaching and at the same
time has allowed me to meet technological tools and spaces that are helping me greatly to
gain motivation in deepening the concepts when sharing with my students.
If I speak about the process of my students, it's has been slow, first because there is a delay
of five or six years in the English study field, at least in my community. The student has no
motivation to learn English. It is really very difficult when in a group of 28 students there
are four or six who show interest or like the subject and the rest of students are waiting that
the best classmates finish their different tasks so that they can copy and meet just for the
sake of acquiring a grade, but not by the interest in learning. It's very difficult; when the
student doesn't think of their future o doesn´t have dreams at all. On the other hand, I have
only three hours a week and many times I teach one hour or nothing, because of the
different activities that the school schedules, while other schools have five to six hours a
week and the social environment of the students is very different, they have more
possibilities to start studying at a university. etc. This is my educative reality.
A positive aspect in technological field is that I have accomplished that my students gain
interest on the online learning, especially the ninth grade in its entirety, with the course
usalearns- beginner, in grades seven and eight a minority of students, with the course
Duolingo. In this regard I would like that my students and I were more versatile in
technology, as then to have my own blog, my students will make their presentations using
the various tools provided by this cyber world, continue their online courses without
interest on a grade. But first and foremost to extend my time intensity to carry out these
proposals that help the development and acquisition of language skills.
Haciendo un contraste de las características que debe tener un docente de Inglés y las que
poseo, considero que soy una docente responsables, interesada y preocupada porque los
estudiantes aprendan, trato de innovar en estrategias que le ayudan a mis estudiantes a
comprender los contenidos o funciones del lenguaje, presentando videos, guías de trabajo,
actividades donde desarrolla las cuatro habilidades del lenguage (reading, writing, listening
and speaking). En cierto modo soy paciente y busco la forma de que el estudiante
interiorice sus conocimientos, no soy de profesores que ven durante el año escolar muchos
temas, yo pienso que se les debe enseñar poco pero bien aprendido, aunque a veces me
siento presionada por el tiempo, los estándares y programaciones que se deben cumplir.
Mis rasgos característicos en el aspecto personal, me considero una persona casera, me
gusta que todo este organizado, soy una persona que le gusta ver películas, escuchar
música, cocinar, me encanta el baile, soy una mujer de pocas amistades, pero las que tengo
soy muy valiosas las respeto y quiero como mis hermanos, sincera, asumo con
responsabilidad las metas que se me asignan o me propongo.
Como lo manifesté anteriormente, este proceso ha sido lento ya que el estuadante no tiene
ninguna motivación por aprender inglés. Realmente es bien difícil cuando hay un grupo de
28 estudiantes y estos cinco o seis mustren interés o agrado por la asignatura y el resto
esperando que realicen algo su compañeros buenos, para copiar y cumplir solo por el hecho
de adquirir una nota, mas no con el interés de aprender.
I’m a responsible, interesting for the student learn your topics,
“Effective teachers appear again and again to display certain characteristics, while
ineffective teachers tend to make the same mistakes repeatedly”
a diferencia de usted, para mi ha sido difícil este proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje porque
mis estudiantes penas interiorizan sus conocimientos en el grado sexto, realmente en la
etapa de primaria es poco lo que ven y por tanto la motivación que tiene hacia esta materia
es poca o nula. por lo tanto, pienso que
innovar, crear estrategias metodológicas que atrapen el interés de los estudiantes, pero ante
todo ser paciente, ya que hoy en día el ñiño o joven estudiante va es con la única idea de
jugar más no con la idea de aprender.
Un aspecto positivo en campo tecnológico, logre que los estudiantes incursionaran el el
aprendizaje online, especialmente el grado noveno en su totalidad, con el curso usalearn-
beginner, en los grados de séptimo y octavo una minoria de estudiantes, con el curso
duolingo. En este aspecto me gustaría que mis estudiantes y yo fueramos más versatiles en
el campo tecnológico, como lo es tener mi propio blog, que mis estudiantes realizaran sus
presentaciones utilizando las diferentes herramientas que brinda este mundo cibernético,
que continuaran sus cursos online sin el interés de que nota me va colocar la profesora. pero
ante todo que me ampliaran mi intensidad horaria para llevar acabo estas propuestas que
ayudan al desarrollo y adquisición de las habilidades del idioma.
Realmente como docente me gustaria ser un poco más arriesgada en proceso de enseñanza,
no sentirme tan presionada ni tensionada, saber llegar a esos estudiantes más poco
motivados por el estudio y por ende no les gusta nuestra materia, en aspecto del manejo de
mis habilidades, me encataría dominar a la perfección mi habla, me siento a veces un poco
temerosa de ello, en el aspecto virtual, aprender a manejar las diferentes herramientas y
ayudas que existan para crear mi propio banco de recursos técnológicos, y de esta manera
motivarlos para que aprendan el inglés sin sentirse presionados por una nota y que ellos
descubran poco a poco la importancia de saber inglés.
b. Talk about common situations at school. Use the Simple Present, Simple Past and
Comparative Adjectives to describe a problem, challenge or unusual situation you
experienced in your school life. Please describe how this personal experience can be
compared to learning online and how you can make an impact in your students’ lives by
contrasting this own learning experience to current language learning conditions. Consider
talking about the possibilities that youngsters have of using the Internet now and what you
did to get information in your school years.
Como dije anteriormente, este proceso ha sido lento, en primer lugar porque hay un atraso de
cinco o seis años en el estudio de Inglés. El estudiante no tiene la motivación para aprender Inglés.
Realmente es muy difícil cuando en un grupo de 28 estudiantes que hay cuatro o seis muestran
interés o gusto por el tema y el resto de estudiantes que esperaban que los mejores compañeros
hacen las diferentes tareas para casa para luego copiar y cumplir por el simple hecho de adquirir
una nota, pero no por el interés en el aprendizaje. Es muy difícil, cuando el estudiante no pensar
en su futuro o no tienes que soñar. Por otro lado, tengo tres horas una semana y muchas veces me
enseño una hora o nada porque las diferentes actividades que se presentan en la escuela,
mientras que otra escuela tiene cinco o seis horas a la semana y el ambiente social del estudiante
es muy differentes, tienen más posibilidad de comenzar una universidad. etc Esta es mi realidad
educativa.
Revisando un poco mis recuerdo, durante mi vida escolar siempre le tuve miedo al inglés, y
presentaba ciertas dificultades en ella, me gradue de bachiller y quede con esos vacios....
pero cuando obtuve mi título de Licenciada en Español y Comunicación con la Universidad
de Pamplona, Sentí la necesidad de hacer otras cosas, entonces fue cuando me uní a un
grupo de compañeras y amigas de la universidad a realizar un curso de inglés, realmente yo
lo tome como por distracción y como un medio de matar mi tiempo libre. Pero vaya
sorpresa, en este proceso me di cuenta que mis compañeras tenían un nivel mucho mejor
que el mio, y me sentí un poco frustrada, entonces reflexioné y empecé a llenar eso vacios
que tenía de la secundaria, Y sin darme cuenta poco a poco me fui enamorando de la
metodología que los docente aplicaban en nosotros como principiantes de esta lengua, los
recursos que utilizaban (videos, flash cards, games, etc.) en este proceso de ensañanza
hasta llegar al punto de fortalecer mis conocimientos y mis aptitudes en las diferentes
habilidades del inglés, claro esta unas más que otras. Luego, analizando estos logros y
viendo la necesidad que había en la institución donde laboraba inicíe mis primeros pasos
como docentes de inglés.
Sin dejar de lado el autoaprendizaje, he recurrido a varios cursos virtuales que el SENA ha
brindo, pruebas diagnósticas y capacitaciones por parte del Ministerio de Educación
Nacional y algunos otros curso personalizados que he realizado, me han fortalecido en mi
quehacer de estudiante y docente. Porque todo este proceso me ha llevado a retomar
nuevamente mi vida como estudiante universitaria pero desde el campo virtual cosa que no
ha sido facíl afrontar. Pero me ha permitido adquirir mas seguridad en mi proceso de
ensañanza y al mismo tiempo me ha permitido conocer herramientas y espacios
tecnológicos que me estan ayudando en gran medida para motivación en la profundización
de los conceptos en mis estudiantes.