INTEVIEW A CLASSMATES

CLASSMATES: Juan Carvajal  and Paloma Abondano

I had the opportunity to interview two classmates and these was their interview:

Question to Juan Carvajal: Which is the reason why chose to be a teacher?    

Answer: "Well, I think that the principal reason to form as an educator is the passion for learn languages and how apply it to teaching processes and other people that love languages; with languages we can do a lot of things, principally the intercommunication between my culture with foreing cultures, it is a way of get out my world and to discover what have other places in common or different to me. Through languages teaching we give an opportunity to join students to other realities and contexts leaving them to experience with new people and new knowledge to teach students is not only give simple concepts repeating models and paradigms. It to teach is of responsability of the future and lead a group of persons able of change the world."

Question to Paloma Abondano: Which is the reason why chose to be a teacher?    

Answer: "Firstly, I never though that I was going to be  a teacher, but the life was showing me that this was for me, I think that it is in my veins like for my vitality, the  most of my family have been professors. I began studying literature in the UdeA, only for testing and thanks for this while I was there I could understand  that vocation is not something one is born, every day slowly builds. So, I can say today that I want to be a teacher because it is a work that not only trains students but who is really important and what I find valuable, we are not so much who seek out a product and as it is a profession very committed to the development of people not only in the academic subject.

Moreover, as a text I read long ago said, we are the responsible in the world. We are the makers of the world because we are who we educate other, so it depends on us whether the others do not construct, if they do not destroy or they do not  transformed his surroundings. I want to be a teacher also because it is a profession of dialogue all the time and  to talk is essential to learn. Being in touch with the other to learn form each other. As Freire says, students are not the only ones learning in the classroom, teachers also learn from our students, their arguments, their questions, etc."

Questions:

1. When you realized that your vocation was to be a teacher?

2. If you had not choosen to be a teacher, which profession would you have liked to study? Why?

3.Of all ours classmates. Who  will be a great teacher? Why?

ACTIVITY ABOUT THE MOVIE: POPE JOAN

POPE JOAN BY DONNA WOOLFOLK

Profile: For centuries, the mystery of pope Joan was lingered. The author Donna Woolfolk Cross spent seven years researching the femenine pontiff mystery and the related time period for her historical novel Pope Joan (1996). She told  a ABC primetime live that she believed that Pope Joan was a real person based on the material available, It having found over 500 chronicle accounts of its existence. Mentions of Pope Joan can be found in a book by poet Giovanni Boccaccio and many other sources and images of a female pontiff can be seen in numerous artworks, including sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini at the Basilica in St. Peters Square.

Personally, I like these films because we can see how education has evolved from our ancestors to date. Initially because education was forbidden for a woman  and they had to be a make housewife. All these thoughts is like the older people had, I think that was a wrong idea about what they thought especially for men who thought or feared that a woman the will command them.

Questions:
1. Why do you think was the reason why women could not previously studied?
2. If you lived in that time you support that thought?
3. For men: Did you consider yourself a macho man? why?
    For women: Did you consider yourself a feminist? why?

INTERVIEW

TEACHER: CARLOS GUTIERREZ PELAEZ

Question: Good afternoon teacher. How do you considered that is your labor as a teaching?

Answer: "Good afternoon, I consider that my labor as a teacher specifically like spanish language teacher of the linguistics specific of the area of linguistic, we must to  be conscious of the valor that have itself about the use of the language. The language is much more of the we think. The language for us must be considered the language more that an element and not  a tool that we use, yes?, because we took the language like a tool that we use and we cast away, we use, we  cast away  and we change and we move and we alter and we do nothing, yes? and I believe since my area, that the language is so complex and dense that this requiered of a conscious enough wide for to recognize the valor that in this exist."

ACTIVITY ABOUT THE SONG

The song that I chose is about education and the control they have children in the school and all that entails. Its name is: another brick in the wall by Pink Floyd.

I think that there are people who have a very low opinion of us; for this reason, I want to change that because we will to transform  the minds of children and we must show that we are great teachers. If feelings are about the song. I personally think that in my school I had teachers where I really did not learn in class or maybe your methodology was not good. I feel as the boys of the song.

I chose the song because I identified and I want to see a different side about education. I think and all what we like depends of the teacher and I am agree with the singer since teachers have a very bad concept; therefore, people have a context about education and there are things that we could change. I believe that there are so many activities that we can do but if I have that choose one activity, I say one that includes a video on teachers as examples of life for to be all the changes we could make in the education.


Questions about the song.
1. In your opinion as a future teacher. What was the worst song in all the exposure? Why?
2. What would do you to change the concept that  people have the bad teacher?
3. What would do you in a class for do  the same activity with the songs in a Catholic School?