- What training needs would you say teachers have?
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 5:18 am
- My experience is very good. In my opinion, online training plays a very important role in innovation, it invites much more reflection through forums, videos and all the materials you have access to. The topics are more discussed in an online course. Sometimes in face-to-face training you are in class, you pay attention to the syllabus, you do your part and you go to the exam. This would change with active methodologies, of course.
"Children are the ones who decide whether they have homework or not"
- Teachers have to work more on methodologies, we still have a lot of room for improvement, taking into account that this directly affects children's satisfaction. Emotional education is also an important area of study and, of course, conflict resolution. We have to train ourselves to implement strategies that try to avoid conflict situations in the classroom. If I as a teacher have not been taught the context of an action between kids, which is also repeated day after day, perhaps I could be missing a bullying situation right before my eyes. It is very important to have this skill.
- To finish, a current topic in the education sector: homework yes or homework no?
- Depends.
(-This is a very Galician answer, I tell him. He laughs.)
-I will argue the answer. Homework is neither good nor bad in itself. I do not assign homework, I do not give extra work to the students. What I do always tell them is that homework depends on themselves. I set a workload for them and they have to learn to manage it, they establish when they want to do it and how. I ask them to write chile phone data it down in a plan and they have to follow it day by day. For example, if you have not finished what you had planned for today, you do it at home. There are two situations in class, the children who have homework and those who do not. In this way, they learn to manage their time, we progressively make them aware of their work pace, as well as the tasks they have. If they plan poorly or put too many tasks in the daily plan, they also realize this and learn.
It's interesting to see how my students are much more aware of the free time they have, and that generates responsibility for teaching. Many of them organize themselves in such a way that they take activities home on days when they don't have as many things to do after school. There is a commitment to learning. They even tell their parents: "I can't do this or that today because I have homework, and Oscar didn't give it to me, I gave it to myself."
"Children are the ones who decide whether they have homework or not"
- Teachers have to work more on methodologies, we still have a lot of room for improvement, taking into account that this directly affects children's satisfaction. Emotional education is also an important area of study and, of course, conflict resolution. We have to train ourselves to implement strategies that try to avoid conflict situations in the classroom. If I as a teacher have not been taught the context of an action between kids, which is also repeated day after day, perhaps I could be missing a bullying situation right before my eyes. It is very important to have this skill.
- To finish, a current topic in the education sector: homework yes or homework no?
- Depends.
(-This is a very Galician answer, I tell him. He laughs.)
-I will argue the answer. Homework is neither good nor bad in itself. I do not assign homework, I do not give extra work to the students. What I do always tell them is that homework depends on themselves. I set a workload for them and they have to learn to manage it, they establish when they want to do it and how. I ask them to write chile phone data it down in a plan and they have to follow it day by day. For example, if you have not finished what you had planned for today, you do it at home. There are two situations in class, the children who have homework and those who do not. In this way, they learn to manage their time, we progressively make them aware of their work pace, as well as the tasks they have. If they plan poorly or put too many tasks in the daily plan, they also realize this and learn.
It's interesting to see how my students are much more aware of the free time they have, and that generates responsibility for teaching. Many of them organize themselves in such a way that they take activities home on days when they don't have as many things to do after school. There is a commitment to learning. They even tell their parents: "I can't do this or that today because I have homework, and Oscar didn't give it to me, I gave it to myself."