As I mentioned in my Pechakucha work, a basic ethical principle is having competence in our subject. Unfortunately, sometimes teachers belonging to other fields have to teach different topics they are not prepared for. We have seen teachers graduated from other careers teaching English, or as in the case of a friend of mine who a biologist, but since he is good at sports, he has Physical Education in some groups !! I studied 5 years to have my degree in that area. My question is : Who is to blame ? The teacher ? The institution ??
The policies? The country´s cultural and political regulations?
ResponderEliminarIt is kind of disappointed to know cases like that Hernan... specially for me... Anyhow, I do not lose my hope of getting a job as an ENGLISH TEACHER, cuz that is the degree I studied and continue studying for...
Hernán and Normis, in the work “Crónicas del desarraigo”, Professor Martinez, does a research about La Nueva Granada to discover, the beginning of a two hundred year career at the colonial era and the reality of teachers was even worse than the present one: “Por aquella época villas y ciudades vieron sirgir y expandirse unos ciertos mercaderes del saber, sujetos anónimos que no bien marcan el umbral de su presencia cuando son tildados de “hombres perdidos sin instrucción ni probidad”; mercaderes de la enseñanza que deambulan por las calles” (…) “para solapar su vagabundería y tener qué comer con el título de maestro”(Martínez Boom, et al, 1.989, p. 47). This is a very sad historical issue that we do not usually consider. However, it is part of our story and we have to face it in order to construct our theory background about this career.
ResponderEliminarMartínez Boom, A., CASTRO, J., & NOGUERA, C. E. (1989). Crónica del desarraigo: historia del maestro en Colombia. Bogotá: Cooperativa Editorial Magisterio.
In the public education system in our country Colombia, this kind of situations are very common every year. In many occasions the teacher must accept hours of work in areas totally different from the one he has studied, since he must complete his weekly academic work, as stipulated in the laws. I agree that the fault of these abuses is only the state and its educational system, which does not take into account the problem that each school can present.
ResponderEliminarIn most educational institutions there are disadvantages with the number of teachers with whom they have. Taking into account this, the administration of these schools are limited to cover the lack of teachers using the second knowledge of others with the purpose of not leaving students without classes.
In this way, I do not think that the schools are to blame for these events, as they look for a way to grant a decent education to all their students and therefore seeks mechanisms that may be unethical but the government leaves no more solutions. It's that or nothing.
I believe my friend that the fault is of our educational system, since they are allowing the educational field to enter new figures that do not fit into the puzzle of education in our country Colombia, and this is one of the great reasons that Is causing our educational system to collapse and that every day the teaching and learning processes are guided to the failure of the abyss, because it is not being consistent with the demandings required to carry out these educational functions in the best way.
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