metaphor by lorena cabrera

Who am I as a teacher?

For me Teacher is like a gardener, the student is the seed or the flowers. The classroom serves as the greenhouse creating a warm, safe environment for growth. The parents are the soil, serving as a strong nutrient base for the seed. The water and sunshine provide live and maintaining it, this is the knowledge. When the water is not plentiful, the seed will suffer. It shines knowledge to ensure growth. The teacher should be patient with the seedlings, because no matter how much water or how much sunshine they receive, they are all individuals, and, as a result, they will all grow at their own rate, in their own way, during their own time; no two are the same.

We need to treat each of them differently for that reason I use differents tools to each students, in some cases I have to use a spade or rake. Those are the different learning strategies for the different learning styles.

The fence Make the environment be more comfortable, compatible, secure, and appropriate for the seedlings to flourish.

Each time the students enter the garden, is my responsibility as a teacher give the students interesting activities take into account the needs that their have, the learning styles which will enable the students to grow strong and tall into their natural splendor.

I don’t blame the plant when it’s not performing well; I check the growing conditions. Is the soil the plant is growing in suitable or does it need amending? Does the plant need more water; does the plant need less water? Does the plant need more sunshine; does the plant need less sunshine. 

metaphor by harold!

METAPHOR OF JESUS AS TEACHER

The role of the teachers is a very wide concept; the teachers are in charge of teaching a subject, they have to create the best conditions in the classroom to ensure a dynamic process of learning, they have to impart knowledge to their students, but these are just some of their duties, they´re also responsible to guide, orient, direct, conduct and shaping student´s life according to ethic values and moral aspects. 

I chose Jesus to reflect the teachers´ role, because teachers are involved in many different aspects of people´s life as well as Jesus, both help and teach people, showing them good and bad things, showing them the different ways to develop a task and letting them take the decision they want but direct them toward the best one.

I see myself as a teacher developing a work like Jesus did, full of love, confidence, dedication, enthusiasm, giving always the best tools to help my students to achieve their aims and dreams, to make them good people, as I said before we need to teach them not just the cognitive part but the affective one to make them people aware about their life, and conscious about the world´ situation and how they can interact with it and help to change things which are affecting their own lives and their closest environment, their family, friends, school, classroom, classmates, neighborhood, etc.

I consider I will be an affective teacher because in my experience as student I noticed the classes are better when teachers are friendly, when they adopt a positive attitude toward the students, when they motivate students to participate in class, when they create a comfortable environment where students are full of confidence and all of them can work together with no fear and so the learning process can take place easily.

Finally, it is important establish a relationship not just with our students but with their family, because our job does not begin and does not  finish in the classroom as many people believe, our job goes beyond, we must take care of our students in all the aspects of their life.

Metaphor by Lina Mora

I decided to do this metaphor like a Jesus because he is teacher of teachers and I would like to be as him. He taught mainly to 12 disciples and the influence that just one person has is huge, so I think that as a teachers we can transform learners’ life and with just one life changed, can be the change for our society and we need to help them to find their purpose in the life.

 Jesus didn’t any exception of social status and he was setting down at the same level as learners; and teachers we have to stay at same level as learners because they are people and they need respect as well.

As Jesus loved his learners I have to do the same with my students because I think that they will receive the information in a better way.

I want to motivate my students and they can feel as home or place that they enjoy it, and Jesus motivated his disciples to tell all the good news to all people.

I am absolutely sure that teacher we can change students’ life and we contribute in their life and I want to do it for good.