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Conócete a ti mismo; que la enseñanza no se trata de ti. | Mario Márquez Farías | TEDxDezaYUlloaED


[Music]
the phrase is attributed to Socrates
Know yourself
quite simple sounds and at the same time
Quite complicated
I liked this phrase a lot
I’ve learned a lot from her since I’ve been
teacher I have had students like Carlos and
Alejandra the very different students
among themselves and very similar and who with
the time has helped me to know myself a
little more in two fundamental aspects
that come to a very reflection
important
the first aspect is to know yourself
emotionally
with his malleable and highly temperament
emotional
Carlos could not and did not want to develop
in a class that I gave call
critical thinking if there was not an ellis
an emotional inducement of by means
instead if I gave him a story or
a metaphor if I let him express his
feel or your doubts before your logic
Carlos learned and worked better
most of the time I could not
have it in front of the textbook when
it was necessary but I could have it in a
talk face to face with me and with
his companions
sometimes I lost it in a limbo between
your mind and my pedagogical strategies
others I found the hook that made
that he took full interest in the class
Carlos knew a lot about many topics but
he was frustrated not being able to understand the
behaviors of many of those who
go around
he wondered why we came to
certain decisions about your life
student
and of his own life
he came to ask because he had to
deal with mediocre teachers with dads
not very understanding and with managers
unfair
at the same time he wonders about his
own performance as a student as
friend as a son and as a human being
the wound in the salt was when it was
diagnosed
and salt in the wound because when it was
diagnosed with hyperactivity and
attention deficit
Carlos believed that he could not be in a
world for which he was not prepared or
for the one who did not have the tools
normal needed
Needless to say, it was considered a
student problem and with the ability
to start or get involved in a
accident if you did not have it under
observation
as a teacher I came to see him as a
challenge as an inspiration
it’s not true I got to see him a lot
fatigue
as a human being and see as a mirror
and something very similar happened to me with
Alexandra
friendly smiling pretty sociable
Alejandro liked to participate in
pedestrian races of 10 km the music of
band and being chatting about boys
every time I had the opportunity
As your tutor I realized Alejandra
he began to fall asleep in classes to miss
with tasks no longer to go to train for the
afternoons
this was shortly before he approached me
to ask for help to stop smoking
for your English teacher but the
educational counselor
he took the freedom to express himself and
I screamed for help when he could no longer
Alejandra like many others of her
comrades are then led
for a drug and sex alcohol tornado
and how Carlos came to blame it on
your parents to their relatives and their friends
just like Carlos came to believe that in
the world would not have understood
and came to ask for help from someone who
without knowing it at some point of the
life got carried away in the same way
with all my painful memories and my
convictions only listen and
help to the best of my ability
in both cases I had to learn to
listen and try to understand to ask
the council of teachers and counselors
educational to be able to guide them clearly that
he was scolded and advised not to discuss
I sentimentally with the students and
do not make me your friend
But when he did even if it was
a little bit I saw myself reflected and I learned
of my self
even if it was a little
second aspect of self – analysis was
know yourself culturally partner
having grown up and been educated in
private schools during my childhood and
youth I identify with Carlos and his
classmates in high school where I gave them
class
cars liked books a lot
especially those of terror and those of
fiction he loved the fights is real
there is a story in which he used a
kitchen knife in a break for
threaten a partner
I liked to draw I liked to write and
he liked to investigate
he came to ask us and later on
talk with your way about the
theory of relativity and holes
blacks
then had access to books to
Internet and television programs that
they allowed him to understand and give examples
expand your analogies your imagination and
your doubts
a teacher and the student that I’ve been
and it was easy to work with karts and their
compact because we shared the
perception of a reality and the
accessibility to means that facilitated
our interaction in class
in sociocultural and economic terms
with Carlos it was quite viable
to work
it was not the same it was a case
completely opposite with Alejandra and
company the high school where the
I met
and their social environment required more
there that my explanations and examples
they were understood I will look
understand it
I had to accept my limitations and my
ignorance about music artists
television programs football players and
way of living
once it occurred to me to give an example
about the war of the galaxies’ the most
simple of all I am your father
and the group went blank
I had to look a little more about the
true story and program
Lord of the heavens and I could get my
guilty taste for one or another song
of band music and we understood that a
nobody likes reggaeton until what
they put
If I asked for a job sent or printed
the mind half of a group what
delivered and of that half only the
half delivered it as required
I had to learn and adapt to the
norms of coexistence and work of a
public school and see that in many
occasions both parents
as teachers we are not interested
so much for the education of the students
as we would like as expected
and I realized that Alejandra had other
motivations other tastes other fears and
other aversions and that I had to
take them into account if you wanted to have a
more bearable and productive class
in both cases I learned to analyze about
social and cultural environments
I ‘ve been in and I’m
and how that learning helps me
only for my performance as a teacher
but as a person
He took me to tell them about the
reflection that comes with these two
aspects
Know yourself
because it’s not about you
and learn to identify how we are and
who are we with our tastes and
dislikes mistakes and achievements skills
skills things we can not do is
a task to which we should aspire not
only as teachers and as parents of
family but as human beings
why
to have a better relationship with
ourselves and with those around us
we have come to think and stipulate that
the students are not our friends is
true they are not
or mentioned in an outside talk
however, they are not our clients or
our source of income only
the quality of all relationships
humanities of teaching and
learning has to do in the flow
emotional interaction and
mutual understanding of its participants
Carlos and Alejandra like many others
students have taught me that the
vulnerability over their own
experiences and feelings is vital
to establish a connection
because the points of view vary
always according to the environment and
emotions because misunderstandings
are around the corner and the
way of perceiving a reality on the part
of a teacher and a student does not have
that both with the age gaps that
they separate us but with what one has
grown up and learned to understand
because in order to establish a
true relationship or connection with the
students with others it is necessary to see
analyze and know oneself to
understand that it’s not about us
let me share one last
reflection
Albert Einstein said that to be
valid individuals who will come to feel
intensely what
we pretend to aspire
but we should only take find
consider our emotions our
fears our motivations or our
illusions but also those of others
to form an attitude and vision
straight about individuals and the
society
These beautiful things are achieved by
personal contact between generations
of students and us their teachers and
no textbooks
at least fundamentally
that’s what it truly represents
know yourself to the teaching and
The learning
per nos at least in the aspects of
the feelings the emotions and the
Students’ environment see us more
beyond our preparation or the
matters that we like to teach so much
to be able to educate better thanks
[Applause]
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