Understanding by design - Chapter 1

In my opinion the most important and interesting part of the chapter is related with the Stages of Backward Design. This is because describes how we can act as future teachers in front of a class, with the clear intention of achieving an optimal proses of learning in the students. In order to plan a lesson, this chapter is very useful because it is completely necessary to understand, that we as future teacher, need to resolve some questions in order to give answers before planning a class. These questions are related with the contents that we need to give to the students. Everything needs to follow the same patron in order to give to the students’ coherent and useful answers. This exercises that we as teachers are going to do helps to achieve several goals, like evaluate ourselves and how we are working in order to develop the class. It would help us to know if we are doing the things right or wrong. The chapter explains also that we need to focus the class to the students. It says that we need to understand that they are the principal objet in the class. This is in order to reach the main object of the curriculum and the class, achieve the knowledge in a proper way.

My experience!

My experience posting on the blog has been very good. I think this has helped me to improve my grammar a lot. I do not have the best grammar on the world, I know that. Also I know that I do not have a high level grammar but at least I know that writing and reading newspapers, books, novels and different settings my English is going to improve.
It is a fact if you study you are going to improve, so the only thing we need to do is study, as simple as that. But to make this happen, we need to do the effort and study more that we usually do.
The blog has given me the responsibility of post every week, so the experience has been good because the blog has forced me to study. It sounds bad but is the truth, I am a lazy person and the responsibility of posting has helped me to study more.

Daniel's blog

The blog is called “El Blog del Deniel”. The name says a lot of his personality, a shy person (only when he wants to) but at the same time a very funny guy with a special personality.
I need to say that Daniel has improved his English a lot. When I first met him his English was not very fluent and the grammar was not the best too. He is my personal friend and that is why I know that he is always giving his best to do the homeworks, the readings and the different activities that we have on these class or in any other subject.

I like the way that he refers to the different topics because he tries to give us the idea of what he has in mind but he need to improve some aspects.
His blog is a little bit plain. He need to give it more color and a picture to each of the topics to have a better idea of what is he feeling or what is the idea of the post.
His grammar is very good, he has improved a lot that part of his English knowledge but he need to focus in how to create a better text, with connectors in it and with more defined paragraphs to catch the whole idea of what he is trying to say.

Finally I have to say that Daniel has improved in the majority of the topics and it is something very good to know for me because he is my friend and I know about the effort that he does to improve. However, he need to keep going on this way because is the only way to improve, studying more and more.

The class with Miss Beatriz

This is my favorite class, we are always giving opinions and learning in a very pedagogical way. I do not want to sound like a boot-licker but is the truth, we are always participating and doing new things. I think with the other teachers the classes are not very fluent, and in the class with you miss Beatriz I think that the most of my classmates participate in some how.

However, I know that we are lazy people; in my case I am always doing my homework on the dead line. I know that is a problem but I try to improve that part of my studies, that is why I am always reading books in English or asking about words and the meanings of the sentences, or even wanting to learn some slang words.

I need to say that we need to work a lot to improve our lazy behavior because the class is made it to interact with each other and not all of us have the attitude of being part of the class, or giving their opinions about some special point of view or about their doubts. It is boring when the same people are always talking and not everybody is participating, they are always rabbiting about the same things and not being good elements for the class.

To start with the post I have to say that Chile played a really good match. The players were really focused on winning. The defense played one of the best games that I've ever seen since Bielsa is coaching the team. They were all in a high level, giving a lot of trust to their fieldmates.

In the midfield the players were really tough and the players from Honduras were not at the level of facing them. For me this was the best point of the match because in the midfield is the key to winning, so if they can work, we have more chances of winning the match.

The forwards were pretty awesome. Valdivia was not playing in his position and he was one of the best players of the match. Sanchez and boseyaur were really important on the winning with their driblings and their abilityes to create a good show with the ball.

All of them were really concentrated because they are representing a whole country in the most important football competiton. So in conclution I can say that it was a great match, but we need to have a solid final score!

Schools kill creativity!

Schools nowadays are not giving the right direction to the education. One example is the art in the schools. It is the subject that students enjoy more than the other ones but for the school this is not one of the most important subjects to teach. Mathematics is one of the main subjects to teach for schools but is one of the most hated subjects. The same thing happens with History or Grammar.

This really creates a condition to the way that teachers use to work in schools because they need to follow the rules of the school and they are not allowed to apply their creativity. This affects the students too, because they can not work in the best conditions to develop their creativity.

It is really sad to see the way that people in general looks the pedagogy career as one of the worst things that you can do for living. In my opinion this is Goberment's fault because they are not giving the right answers to the problems that affects the education and these problems are to develop in a better way our creativity to not be systematic people.

Orlan is 63 years old and is famous because she did a lot of "strange" performances; however, can you define what is strange and what is normal nowadays?
I believe that most of people has a lot of prejudices with things that they do not know and understand, specially with shocking performances like the many who did Orlean.

She really wanted to cause a reaction on people who has prejudices on the different ways of showing art expressions. For me the most amazing living piece of art that she has performed was the surgery she did on her face to look like the Leonardo Da Vinci's Gioconda. This can say a lot but for me is that art is not only paitings, is that we can be art too.

This is why I agree her concept of art because her message was to break the barriers between sexes and genders, generations and artistic practices, to break all the prejudices that people has on art and things that they do no know in general.