Chilean education and the role of future teachers

One of the most important words in the life of a human been is Education. This concept is throughout all our existence, in one way or another. We chose this profession not because the Money but children and teenagers. English teachers have the big change to create new worlds through the language. Most of our Chilean students don´t have the opportunity of travel abroad neither into their own country, then English can open this doors to the students to know other cultures and lifestyles. Nowadays, the role of the teachers has changed as well as our students. We have no enough family support because the speed of the modern lifestyle, therefore, students look for more than Education but love and someone who listen to them. So we are the teachers of the future, for today and tomorrow. The teacher of the XXI century will need to be, not only a highly trained professional teacher, but must also possess skills in counseling and mediation, and have a strong understanding of the social supports available to families and young people.It pays special attention to how secondary teacher education prepares teachers for a growing school population that will work and engage in the complexities of a modern and global society where meaningful knowledge processing and its use are an indispensable set of competencies, however, building of professional identity, our socialisation into schools, the relative weights of initial teacher education and experience, and the lack of support as we begin to teach are disappointing facts for our professional development.Despite of all that was mentioned before, we must to have, as teachers, a correctclass management and control, questioning and explaining, and the teaching of mixed-ability groups … It is a big challenge isn’t it? The Minister of Education in Chile is updating its practices in order to train teachers for manage new methodologies, planning new lessons and developing proyects in some schools, using technology to the service of language. Also it is promoting Teachers Networks, where the members can share their experiences and materials, as an important tool for the professional development and improve our way of teaching. This program is called English Opens Doors. In its web page www.ingles.mineduc.cl we can find a lots of links related with scholarship to teachers and pedagogy students, seminars, English workshops for teachers and students among others activities to promote the use of English as a second Language. This kind of Government Program, is one way to “take the challenge” to be a teacher of the future. Most of English teachers in Chile are between thirty five and fifty years old, and some of them are Elementary teacher with a Mention in English that is not enough to teach English. For these reasons, it is important to take this opportunity offer for free by the State, and update our practices an knowledge about Language.We are going to be teacher very soon, some of us are teaching English today. But all of us are sure that it is a very difficult work. Even though, as I said before, we chose this career not for money but vocation. We are the teacher of the future. We are called to take the challenge.

Elizabeth Ponce Navarro.
1 de diciembre de 2007 18:22

ok, here I am

ok, Miss Parra, here I am . Here Im going to write my task about disasters. Did you remember 1985's chilean earthquake?
im going to talk (write) about it.
See you
Elizabeth Ponce