My friend Marcela Palacios

hello dear partners.

today i´ll do my interview about my friend.

Her name is Marcela Palacio. she is graduate from this university, We met at the E.N.S.A ( Escuela Normal Superior Antioqueña) when we were doing the C.C: (complementary training program) she said and also I could observe: she loved to teach and share with children is a wonderful person, the end of the complementary training program, she started her degree in languages because besides to teach. why not teach something that you love? Right now she is working as a teacher in E.N.S.A primary school. For her being a teacher is the best that could happen in her life and that her dream is to someday be like her mom Nora Liliana, Teachers also, which is a masterpiece to which I admire and respect very much.

Working with children is a difficult task, but at the end of the day and see how my students progress, makes me feel accomplished.

Tin Tin, you know,  this is my being reason. I was born for this.

being a teacher is a difficult task? why?

actually,  feel you comfortable studying this degree? why?

why you chose degree in languages and not another?

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Movie Review about Dangerous Minds

hello dears class mate this time, i´m writing about a movie that I think that is a beautiful story with a great teaching.

 "Dangerous Minds" It´s about another one of those parables in which the dedicated teacher takes on a schoolroom full of rebellious with a high degree of aggressivity, and wins them over with an unorthodox approach. this movie is based on a real story.

 An ex-Marine who applies for a teaching job and is hired on the spot, to teach in a school when the student are divided on two group, she is assigned to work with young  "made up of special kids, passionately challenging." or how said a fellow teacher:  "These are bright kids, with little or no educational skills, and what we politely refer to as social problems, they are Rebels from hell.
 When She enters the classroom and is immediately hooted down by a scornful class of African-American and Hispanic students who call her "white bread."   One day after a terrible reception from the students, she tries unconventional methods of teaching (using karate, Bob Dylan lyrics etc) to gain the trust of the students.

She  involves them in the words of that important poet, Bob Dylan  saying (the Tambourine Man might have been a drug dealer!). Soon they're in the school library, finding connections between Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas. (First prize: dinner with the teacher in the nicest restaurant in Palo Alto.)

Omg, i'm so sorry, I forgot do the questionary.
Today reading the comements and other blogs i saw that I did not the questionary, but ofcurse i have some question for you.

1° Think you that a teacher can change the his students life? yes or not? explain you answer.
2° If you have the oportunity to work with a group of rebelous students, but you don´t know that they are rebelds, to realize that students are virtually indomitable ¿what would you do?
3° ¿ how  you expect to be your firts teacher job, and you believe tha it is possible?

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about my English teacher in high school

talking whit my secundary teacher about what made he dicede become a teacher, he said me:

HENRRY BLANDÓN

For me, it was because it was something I was good at and knew I would enjoy.  I have the ability to understand a lot of material and explain it to others, and I have always enjoyed interacting with young people.

I started out to be a college professor, but I found out that what I really enjoyed was being in a classroom interacting with students.  In Bogota, at least, college professors have to write articles for scholarly journals and/or books.  I found that I did not enjoy that but that I did enjoy trying to help young people understand subjects that I enjoyed.

That is why I switched over and became a high school teacher after I got my doctorate.  One of the joys of being a teacher is getting to interact with young people.  If you are lucky, you get to become part of the lives of some pretty special people and that is a privilege that teachers enjoy much more than people in most other walks of life.

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About the song

1.  what´s the song about?

In Your Hands

2. what's your reflective point of view according to the lyrics?

I think that everyone have had a great teachers that they have inspired us to be every day better than past day. the teacher have. we as teachers have the great gift of transforming the lives of our students, whether for good or ill.

I don't know who write it but one day I heard from my mom this word:

" mediocre teacher only tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates but if u wanna be a great teacher, u have inspire to your students"

3. When have you had these kind of feeling?

ever, because always i have had great teachers, of course too bad teachers but u forget this experiences.

4. how close are u to the song? why?

The why to this question I gave on the second point, but i'll stick

Because, I think that everyone have had a great teachers that they have inspired us to be every day better than past day. the teacher have. we as teachers have the great gift of transforming the lives of our students, whether for good or ill.

5. ¿how close are you to the song? why?

completely fills me to listen up this song, the first time that I heard this song  I remembered my school time, although I am not the kind of sentimental person, almost i weep

6. What's the influence of music in school?

The music has great power. Provides a pleasant learning experience, stimulates the imagination and creativity in children. It also creates bonds between parents and children according to the rhythms and sounds that are generated in the environment.

7. What's the influence of school in music?

really I do not know what the impact of this in school, but perhaps the taste rhythms help you form groups of friends who share your musical tastes

8. whose song did you enjoy more? why?

I don't remember its name, but was shown by David, it was very funny, see these teacher shaking her booty and teaching the anaconda.

I do not know, but I think that contained a deep subliminal message

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About me

My name is Martin Pinilla, I was born in Valle Chocó, 

I am 27 years old, I teach  Basic Prymary, my first teaching job was in 2007 with the program Buen Comienzo (It is a program, which is addressed to the early childhood attention, especially in populations with some degree of vulnerability or limited economic resources). , It was a wonderful experience for me.

After these I was working in the Madre María Massarello School as spanish teacher. I too worked in Yopal Casanare, in the Panamerican School for six month, was nice but a left these job becouse the temperature was too high for me. but the school atmosphere is wonderful

my biggest holdings are being a teacher, travel and experience different places from Colombia, and being teachers I think it's going very well because I can travel to different places and if I like that place I put on resumes to work and live for a while there. I am a relaxed person, I have a younger sister, I love my mom, She is the best mom in the world.

I postponed the job  to dedicate more time to the study, every year I travel to my town to enjoy the festivities and the family atmosphere that exists in all people, I'm a little messy, I love the foods that are fried I love sharing knowledge with other persons, I enjoy talking to older people, I think that they are a trunk of knowledge, they have studied whether or not, their experiences are valuable and many of those stories told by elders have served me in different situations.

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