Metaphor

Metaphor



When I see the image of a pencil and tried to connect that to the educational process of learning English I found some aspects to consider. Firstly, there is the fact that those parts of the pencil can be connected to the process of education. I would start with the pencil mine. It is the one that let us write and create whatever we have in mind. Therefore, I relate that with all the theoretical part of becoming a teacher. It brings to our mind all kind of concepts in order for us to perform in the educational field as the wishful teachers. However, the pencil mine is too weak to stand by its own, so there comes the wooden part of the pencil. It helps to strengthen the pencil mine so that is not broken when it is used. Hence, I consider that part to be the practical part of being a teacher. Become a teacher by reinforcing the theory you learn and make it better every time you teach anything. As the final part, I see the eraser. What would be its relationship with education?  I would say that it is connected to reflection. Indeed, erasers helps to delete something wrong we did in the process. Somehow, reflection does not eliminate that "wrong" aspect of your teaching process. Nevertheless, it helps you not to "commit that crime" again. Thus, you learn how to improve as a teacher and learn all the time.

Journal 9

Journal 9

During this week, classes were not as normal as usual, because the weeks before this one we, students were on vacation. In fact, the day we returned classes was a Wednesday so I did not have class with Basic English ll, which is Professor John’s group. However, I did have classes with Pre-intermediate English and Basic English ll with professor Jairo. The problem was that I do not live in Neiva while I have nothing to do in the city. Therefore, I travel every time I have vacations to my hometown. That Wednesday I was expected to get the bus at seven o’clock in the morning. Likewise, I had everything ready for my two classes. Unfortunately, the driver had some kind of problem and could not solve it on time. In consequence, the bus started working on at 9:30 in the morning. Since Garzon is two hours away, I would get to Neiva around 11:30 or later, depending on the traffic jams or the driver’s speed.

I could not teach the classes I had expected on Wednesday. However, I did talk to Professor Wilson about it and told him the situation. I asked him for permission to do my intervention of my innovation plan from the practicum. He allowed me to do so on Friday. Therefore, I got my stuff all together and I was ready to roll on Friday. I went there and applied the peer evaluation I had planned for that day.

Students were willing to do so even though they had forgotten to bring their essays finished. I had told them to bring their essays before entering back to the university. In that session, what I needed them to do was to criticize a text with some criteria I had adapted from an investigation. They did so and I told them to finish it at home since most of them did not finish it at the time. In addition, I told them that have a look at the feedback their peers had given them, so that they can have a final version of the essay and, therefore, sent it to me. The deadline I told them was next class, which is going to be on July 17. I hope they do not forget it. Sometimes they forget about everything and I get frustrated.