ESTATUTO DOCENTE: a greek tragedy

Mario Waissbluth is a Universidad de Chile professor who carried out a research about “estatuto docente”

This is the evaluation that teachers have to do in order to know their ability level. This evaluation started 4 years ago and almost a half of the teachers have been assessed by this moment.


According to Waissbluth’s opinion the great guilty is our educational system that allows people, who have 400 points in P.S.U., studying for being teachers, and people who get those score in that exam are not able to comprehend what they are reading, even after leaving college and having their professional degree as a teacher.
I am as student for being a teacher; I do not feel that things are too bad right now. Yes, it is probably that old teachers do not want to be assessed because they left college and they never came back to study again but I do feel that a new generation of teacher is coming. They are some people who really want to change the old way to deal with students and teaching a subject.

NeW ViCTiMS....... TEACHERS

It may sound weird and incredible but unfortunately it happens. Teachers are being victims of bullying at schools by their own students.

In July, the newspaper “La Tercera” published that 40 cases of bullying to teachers were reported in private schools last year, and also they say that teachers do not study at university how to create an adequate climate inside the classroom.

Why are teachers being victims today? According to some researches, these point out that aggressors are also victims at their home, this means that those students that swearing at their teacher is why they are sworn at their parents.

I am wondering how to figure out this problem and I think that everything starts at home. If children learn at home that everyone is a human being that deserves respect, things could be change a little.

SEARCHiNG...

Mr. Litman asked us to research some concepts
These are:

Learning to learn: learning to learn refers to discover certain strategies in order to improve our way of studying and at the same time, to be aware of what we are able to do and we are not. It is because learning is a very personal matter, and a technique that works for one person, does not necessary work for everybody.

Aggression at school: Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others, through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation.

Unfortunately, this issue is getting common in our schools today in Chile.
Victims of bullying can suffer from long term emotional and behavioral problems. Bullying can cause loneliness, depression, anxiety, lead to low self-esteem and increased susceptibility to illness.
Harassment: Harassment means a behavior that threatens or torments somebody, especially very persistently.
In terms of anti-discrimination, harassment is any form of behaviour that:
• You do not want;
• Offends, humiliates or intimidates you; and
• Targets you because of your sex, pregnancy, race, age, marital status, homosexuality, disability, transgender (transsexual) status or carers’ responsibilities.

PReuS

In Chile, before going to college, every student has to take an exam called P.S.U. (prueba de selección universitaria)
If you want to go to a public university, you have to do a great performance in this exam and get a high score, but to get it you should go to a Preuniversitario, and pay for it first.
This was the topic that Claudio, Paula and I talked about and discuss in our presentation.
We wanted to show to our classmates that it is not fair that if you go to school during twelve years, you also have to pay for a preu.
I think that we had a good performance because we knew about the topic and read enough about it. But we had some spelling problems in the PTT presentation, this was because all the information that we found was in Spanish, so we did not want to translate words like preuniversitarios or p.s.u. because we consider that these are words that represent something only for us in Chile and they would sound meaningless in English.
During the debate, I think that all our classmates were felt comfortable talking because everyone gave their opinions about this topic.

I AM an...ARTISAN

www.keirsey.com is a webpage where you can know what your personality is, just answering 70 easy questions.
According to this test, there are 4 types of personalities: Guardians,Rationals, Idealist and Artisan.
After answering those questions that is what I get about me...

Artisans are the temperament with a natural ability to excel in any of the arts, not only the fine arts such as painting and sculpting, or the performing arts such as music, theater, and dance, but also the athletic, military, political, mechanical, and industrial arts, as well as the "art of the deal" in business.
Artisans are most at home in the real world of solid objects that can be made and manipulated, and of real-life events that can be experienced in the here and now. Artisans have exceptionally keen senses, and love working with their hands. They seem right at home with tools, instruments, and vehicles of all kinds, and their actions are usually aimed at getting them where they want to go, and as quickly as possible. Thus Artisans will strike off boldly down roads that others might consider risky or impossible, doing whatever it takes, rules or no rules, to accomplish their goals. This devil-may-care attitude also gives the Artisans a winning way with people, and they are often irresistibly charming with family, friends, and co-workers.
Artisans want to be where the action is; they seek out adventure and show a constant hunger for pleasure and stimulation. They believe that variety is the spice of life, and that doing things that aren't fun or exciting is a waste of time. Artisans are impulsive, adaptable, competitive, and believe the next throw of the dice will be the lucky one. They can also be generous to a fault, always ready to share with their friends from the bounty of life. Above all, Artisans need to be free to do what they wish, when they wish. They resist being tied or bound or confined or obligated; they would rather not wait, or save, or store, or live for tomorrow. In the Artisan view, today must be enjoyed, for tomorrow may never come.
There are many Artisans, perhaps 30 to 35 percent of the population, which is good, because they create much of the beauty, grace, fun, and excitement the rest of us enjoy in life.
Artisans at Work
Artisans seek to make an impact upon the organizations where they work and upon society at large. Their alertness to current realities, the joy they take in variation, and their tendency to follow their instincts to 'what works' make them good troubleshooters and negotiators, talented performers and craftspeople and excellent leaders in all kinds of emergencies and chaotic situations.
Your heightened aesthetic sense can lead you to craft and perfect whatever work you take on. As a result, in your ideal job you would likely have the freedom to gather observations, collections of facts, and sets of skills in order to do your work. You can be thrilled when you slip through a window of strategic opportunity that colleagues or the competition haven’t yet seen.

CuRFeW 4 TeeNaGeRS

First of all, what does curfew mean?
Curfew is an order by a government for certain persons to return home daily before a certain time
The question is this is still possible in the 21st century, and the answer is yes according what I read during my research for this topic.
In a small town called Vernon, CT, anyone under 18 years old have to be at home before 11 p.m., because if the police catch someone, they could pay a fine between 50 and 90 dollars. This rule was set into a couple of years ago in order to stop gans activities at nights. Police says that this has helped to clean up streets but on the other hand, young people say that this has not decreased the youth crime rate.
Nowadays in Chile we are living into a society where levels of youth crime are raising, so it is impossible not to wonder if curfew could be the solution for all the youth crime problems in Chile…
In my opinion, this is something that will be hard to do in Chile because crime is not a thing that only happens at nights, it happens at any time of the day, and not only done by young people, but those days youth crime is something common though. In order to face delinquency, Chile has to do other things such as create strong laws for criminals and not orders that are even for civil people.

CuBaN eDuCaTioN

This week the presentation was in charge of Katherinne, Fabián and Pedro, my classmates. They talked about Cuban educational system. Their presentation was very good but sometimes I think it was a lot of information in every slide.
Talking about Cuba is something really hard because everyone has something to say related to the topic, and talking about education in Cuba is even much more difficult.
Cuba has an educational system that most countries would want to have, because studying is guarantee for everyone inside the country.
My classmates through their presentation wanted to show us if this system could be brought to Chile in order to improve and have a better system here. This point was the main idea to discuss during the debate.

WoRDLe.NeT

We went to computer lab and we were playing with the web page that Mr. Litman gave us. This page was wordle.net
Here you can write anything you want, and the program puts it in a very funny way.
My sentence is a line taken of one of my favourite songs, Love Song by Sarah Bareilles.
"You are not what I thought you were"...
This is what I did.

"BRiTiSH EDUCATiONAL SYSTEM"

Today my classmates, Evelyn, Rodrigo and María Teresa did their performance and talk about “British Educational System”. They focused on talking about public schools in England.
When we hear the concept of public schools, we tend to relate public schools and government, but in England this means private schools. They also talked about what the characteristics are in a public school and they are boarding schools in most cases.
I really did like their presentation because it was about something that I personally did not know. Their presentation was really concise, they only mentioned important points that we needed to know. During the debate, I was participating in the against group, I could not choose it but I was great there.
As a group, our statement was “these kinds of schools are not the best option because here children grow alone, without love and care of their parents and schools only care of academic results and children have to receive education and love as well. Especially from their parents”
The debate was really good, everyone had to speak and give their opinion and for a while, opinions were so passionate.

MaRía MúSiCa & HaLF LiTeR oF WaTeR

Last Tuesday, July 15th, teachers, students and the Minister of Education, Mónica Jiménez, were participating in a meeting. According to the program, the Minister was saying her speech when suddenly she was interrupted by students, and she could not continue. Before the Minister leaving the room, María Música threw half a liter of water to the minister’s face. As a consequence of this, everyone had something to say, and the right to think that María had done the worst thing in the world.
I agree that this girl did not do something that she can be proud of, but I think that students do not see any chance in education and they want to be listened and they do not get that either.Without a doubt, this name will be on the news for awhile, but I consider that our authorities should be doing something in order to improve our educational system instead of keeping talking about María Música and half a liter of water.