Este fim de semana estive numa de offroad.
Tudo bem convosco?
Tudo bem convosco?
domingo, 29 de novembro de 2009
sexta-feira, 20 de novembro de 2009
Jesusalém de Mia Couto
Excerto:
"A família, a escola, os outros, todos elegem em nós uma centelha promissora, um território em que poderemos brilhar. Uns nasceram para cantar, outros para dançar, outros nasceram simplesmente para serem outros. Eu nasci para estar calado. Minha única vocação é o silêncio. Foi meu pai que me explicou: tenho inclinação para não falar, um talento para apurar silêncios. Escrevo bem, silêncios, no plural. Sim, porque não um único silêncio. E todo o silêncio é música em estado de gravidez."
quarta-feira, 18 de novembro de 2009
What are your favourite images or quotations relating to Education/Motivation/Productivity?
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."
Derek Curtis Bok
"A good teacher is a master of simplification and an enemy of simplism."
Louis A. Berman
"Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult."
Nadia Boulanger
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Learning and Changing : The 4 quotations that guide me every school year
I love a good quotation. What I mean by a good quotation is one that takes something you’ve been thinking about abstractly and would take you lots of words to express, and then says it in a very concise (often, pithy) way. These are the 4 quotations that help me building my path as a teacher.
1. “It’s hard not to act like a caveman when you’re living in a cave.” (paraphrased from John O’Farrell’s An Utterly Impartial History of Britain)
At school, as well as in the other work places, there’s staff who don’t have broadband at home ( because they don’t use the Net that much ), have had the same mobile phone for several years and who only use an interactive whiteboard if and when they are observed….While most of our students have the best laptops models, the most advanced 3G mobile phone and control easily those interactive whiteboards “monsters”. I think we ( or most of the teachers ) must come out of the cave without fear… There is no monster out there anymore…
2. “If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.” (Chinese proverb)
I can see so much that needs to be done! So, as long as I know where I’d like the school to be in 3 years’ time, I can start thinking about the baby steps to get us there. The problem is: will we ever get there?!!
3. "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." ( Marcus Aurelius)
As a teacher I must accept the fact that I am not supposed to be the most popular person in the world. It’s a bit like when you become a teacher and initially you want all the students to like you. Then you realize that you’re not there to be liked. You’re there to help students to learn things. Every year I ‘keep it real’ and don’t just try to please everybody. That’s the way I have found out to be OK.
4. “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.” ( Michel De Montaigne)
At the end of every school day I always try to remember the reasons why I came into the teaching profession. They are my ‘teacher principles’. However, in this new and changing world of education, there are a lot of stuff that let myself down… But I’ve learnt that it hasn’t to be at the expense of my believes and values.
What about you? What quotations guide and inspire you? What are you aiming for next school year?
1. “It’s hard not to act like a caveman when you’re living in a cave.” (paraphrased from John O’Farrell’s An Utterly Impartial History of Britain)
At school, as well as in the other work places, there’s staff who don’t have broadband at home ( because they don’t use the Net that much ), have had the same mobile phone for several years and who only use an interactive whiteboard if and when they are observed….While most of our students have the best laptops models, the most advanced 3G mobile phone and control easily those interactive whiteboards “monsters”. I think we ( or most of the teachers ) must come out of the cave without fear… There is no monster out there anymore…
2. “If you chase two rabbits, both will escape.” (Chinese proverb)
I can see so much that needs to be done! So, as long as I know where I’d like the school to be in 3 years’ time, I can start thinking about the baby steps to get us there. The problem is: will we ever get there?!!
3. "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." ( Marcus Aurelius)
As a teacher I must accept the fact that I am not supposed to be the most popular person in the world. It’s a bit like when you become a teacher and initially you want all the students to like you. Then you realize that you’re not there to be liked. You’re there to help students to learn things. Every year I ‘keep it real’ and don’t just try to please everybody. That’s the way I have found out to be OK.
4. “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.” ( Michel De Montaigne)
At the end of every school day I always try to remember the reasons why I came into the teaching profession. They are my ‘teacher principles’. However, in this new and changing world of education, there are a lot of stuff that let myself down… But I’ve learnt that it hasn’t to be at the expense of my believes and values.
What about you? What quotations guide and inspire you? What are you aiming for next school year?
Learning and Growing
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
terça-feira, 17 de novembro de 2009
Webquest
Há um tema que eu gostaria de tratar numa webquest : contos tradicionais, utilizando os readers adequados ao nível etário. Os filmes da Disney e as canções de encantar poderiam ajudar-nos a fazer um meddley para um musical. Que acham?
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