I can’t ask my students autonomy if I don’t have autonomy first. That means, if I want to educate in the development of autonomous behaviuor, it is essential to be aware of it in my life. Our planning lessons, our classes, our activities… everything that we do reflects the point of view that we have about education, knowledge, teaching and pedagogy.
Autonomy is a tool that helps us but you can’t confuse it with freedom or with doing what you want. It is not necessary to exclude the traditional teaching skills but it is really important to improve the learning experiences of our students. Most of the teachers try to repeat their own experience at school and we all know that everything is changing, even people and strategies to teach. We should be “true believers” that learning in an autonomously way is the opportunity to create a meaningful environment in which students will learn with joy and pleasure.
Finally, I hope I won’t forget all these reflections. It could be interesting to abandon some ideas that we still carry, confront them and decide, having always in mind all the things I can strengthen in those kids that visit everyday my classroom and give sense to my career.
Autonomy is a tool that helps us but you can’t confuse it with freedom or with doing what you want. It is not necessary to exclude the traditional teaching skills but it is really important to improve the learning experiences of our students. Most of the teachers try to repeat their own experience at school and we all know that everything is changing, even people and strategies to teach. We should be “true believers” that learning in an autonomously way is the opportunity to create a meaningful environment in which students will learn with joy and pleasure.
Finally, I hope I won’t forget all these reflections. It could be interesting to abandon some ideas that we still carry, confront them and decide, having always in mind all the things I can strengthen in those kids that visit everyday my classroom and give sense to my career.
1 comentario:
Natalia,
Your blog keeps getting better and better. I really like your reflections on autonomy.
I have to admit that I do not have clear exactly what teacher autonomy means, yet. I understand what it means to be an autonomous professional, but it is confusing how that autonomy accomodates all the external factors such as Mission and Vision of the institution, Standards of the district, or in our case, National Standards, and the objectives of the course itself.
However, as you mention, we need to keep reflecting and adding to our knowledge!
Georgia
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