Such a wonderful energy we have shared today!!!!! At least I was totally flooded by your energetic fields, your magnetic TEACHING essence, if you know what I mean.
See, my dear friends, my whole point (my only point this course) is "never take for granted what we are told as far as Education is concerned..., not even this!!!!! Check and double-check, and try to discover what it is that lies behind the wonderful mask of the world of Education, or just the world.
Methods are tools we have to study, learn, know, you name it, but remember that they are theoretical tools to "play" with (to have fun with, I would even say). Instead of saying "I am using this methodological choice/device/option/approach" (which, by the way, sounds pretty proffesional) I like saying "I am playing with this method to see what happens and to get further in my understanding of the whole thing".
But well, to cut a long story short (sorry, pals, about my neverending ramblings, do bear with me and thanks for you patience), this is THE POINT:
Focus on Silence for a while, just for a while, try to get to know it better, just that. And do it your own way and only if you feel comfortable, if that's not the case, the right time will come (or not, who cares). This is just our first Unit, the introduction, so to speak, of the course. But remember that what you see is what you get, that's how I teach, that's how I share with my students, NOT SO MUCH GIVING YOU STRAIGHT ANSWERS, BUT TRYING TO BRING UP QUESTIONS THAT WILL GUIDE US ALL TO MORE QUESTIONS IN A SPIRAL MOVEMENT OF UNDERSTANDING. I like getting to the bare esssence, to the root of it all, after all this is one of the wonders of being here with you.
I may be wrong, or I may be right, or, more surely, somewhere in between (wringht) (Goodness, I'VE JUST FALLEN IN LOVE WITH THIS WORD we have just created!!!!!!!!!).
Thank you for helping me with the missing pieces of this wonderful tapestry, this manifold puzzle of learning, teaching, just living!!!!!!!
One more day in Paradise, pals, one more day with you all!!!!!
Enjoy!!!!
(Fran)
The lecture we took was quite different than the ones we are used to. It does not mean that was bad, of course not, each teacher is completely different as well as their ways of teaching.
ResponderEliminarI am a bit afraid of not having understood the main point of the lecture because I not sure if I could answer correctly in the exam if you ask us about silence.
Are we going to continue with this topic the next lesson? I hope so, cause it is really interesting.
THANKS!!
You'll be more than able to come up with an answer yourself, be sure about it!!!!! The important thing here is to EXPERIENCE the ideas we discuss and see what happens!!!!!
EliminarAnd yes, we still have to finish off our Unit on silence and language teaching!!!!
Cheers!!!!!!
I think learning methodologies is not about studying perfectly all the different types of methodologies in a completely theoretical way. It´s important to know a bit of information to have a base, but once it has been built I think is more important for example to interiorize the main ideas or the main characteristics of each method and try to distinguish or to know when to use each methoodologie. At the same time I think it´s important to know different tricks that can be used with different methodologies (for instance, in the silent way method I think is important to know that gestures play an essential role).
ResponderEliminarI agree with you when you say that is not a good idea to give straight answers to a child. For example, by this I understand for example that if a child doesn´t know how to say a word in English ("fútbol", for example) instead of saying him the word in English we can say: "Ok, which word in English sounds like "fut"?, and it´s apart of the body; and "bol"? it´s and object. Once the child has found out both words he only has to mix them (fut-bol= foot-ball).
I don´t know if it´s clear or if I´ve expressed myself in a correct way, if you have any doubt please tell me and I will try to explain it with different words.
It is crystal-clear, Víctor. Thanks for keep on sharing!!!!!
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