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Revolucionemos la forma de educar | Elisa Guerra | TEDxBarriodelaEstacion


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Did you know that in recent years
the most recent research on
neurosciences have shown that the
human brain is more powerful is more
sensitive and is more willing for the
learning precisely in the first
years of life have ever
asked if young children
they are really learning everything that
they could learn if we gave them the
opportunity for example could a child
start learning to read and play a
musical instrument and learn a language
abroad and learn about the beauties
of culture and art and doing
mathematics and much more all this
before 3 years old yes
However, very few children are possible
they achieve this very few do it because
because it would be like that
according to UNICEF data in the world every
minute 255 women become
mothers
I lived this experience for the first time
when he was 23 years old and good is a
experience that changes your life for
course in my case also changed my
profession led me to obsess over the
education and I also achieve that still at
today on many occasions be
questioned and is even critical now
Being a mother is an event
ordinary is more I could
bet that a number of
women who are here this afternoon are
mothers by decision or by accident but
they are mothers and many of us
times for several times
the as such an ordinary event
so trivial change my life this
way and in this magnitude is the story
I want to share with you this afternoon of
fact it was not a single event they were in
reality 13 events the first
become a mother the second read a
book
yes I know maybe you are
thinking about reading a book but if that
it’s also quite trivial finally
everyone here we can read a book all
here we know how to read and write but if I
I will ask you how many of those who
we are here we read for pleasure for pleasure
because a book traps us because we do not
loose because we can spend hours and
hours without us noticing reading
if I ask you is that same question as
long and wide of our country and our
interviewed were honest to the best
we would not like the answers very much
that they gave us the average Mexican read
last year less than one book
– of a book
and you know this is not a problem any more
of mexico is not exclusive to our
country I dare to suggest that maybe
Our educational systems are
relatively good for literacy
to teach reading and writing but
they are a resounding failure to create
passionate readers in the end this book
that I read that captivated me was called how
teach your baby to read and the author was
glenn ‘doc’
a pretty provocative title does not believe
in teaching a baby to read when everything
the world at least me in that
then we knew that the reading is
this mysterious and difficult thing that the
children have to approach at 6 years
when they reach primary school
and if we start analyzing the six
years what is
the end of early childhood and that is
also the beginning of formal education
coincides with the start of the
literacy and we tell the child of 6
years that you are about to start first
degree you’re already big you ‘re going to go to
primary but they know inside what
we are saying this poor thing of you the
you’ll just wait and start
cloths and years of exercise tasks
suffering torments
they do not seem crazy to you since
then we have this connotation so
negative of education and
learning and we transmit it to our
children imagine already since then we see
learning as an obligation and not
as the privilege that is almost almost like
a punishment instead of seeing it as a
gift but good the proposal of glenn
doman in this book was completely
different from the traditional school
for teaching reading it
suggested not to start as the
traditional school teaching the letters
and the sounds fragmenting the language
decontextualizing what
a letter does not mean anything to a child
but a word a word that he
know and that you like the word mom
the word dog have a meaning
very special for our children
then he would suggest why not
teach children to read the
words that they know that they
make a child defended glenn doman can
start learning to read from the year
of age or even before and almost at the same
time that when you are learning to
speak because because reading is
language and young children are
especially sensitive for
language learning reading
it is also a neurological function a
brain function not a school subject
a brain function as well as it is
walk and how is it to talk then
been hand suggested to teach to read of the
same way that is taught in school
how would you see a session of
early reading what the
first session in which you teach him to
read your baby
we work with large cards with
eye-catching words we do sessions
brief, very enthusiastic frequent
during the day
would represent this in front of your baby and
I would say it is my love here I have some
animal words you know here
says lion bear cougar elephant monkey
and in love and that would be the end of
first session
I know it seems like a crazy thing but
Believe me everything I read in the book
from glenn doman it made a lot of sense to
I found it logical then I decided
why not risk me and try this
program with my first child my first
baby leo
when he had at that time one year and
half for when I read fulfilled four
years he could recognize approximately
about 300 words per view
I could read short sentences I could read
home books I had already started to
read other books over glenn doman and
I was teaching Leo and his
little sister to me at the same time to read
but doing great works math
teachers of geography painting a
foreign language and a lot more things
niko in two years could distinguish
between a cézanne and a nuance I read with
four years I could name the name
scientist of the animals that were
favorites and know what was
they meant but the most important thing is
that we were passing it divinely what
we really enjoyed it and I also with
mom was learning a lot
Then came what had to happen
the moment came when I read start the
school
uy what do I tell you I was a mom
quite demanding then it was not easy
choosing a preschool finally I
I decided on one that I had quite
prestige nice facilities me
was near the house you know all
these things by the way these factors
that parents look a lot when they choose
a good school to investigations have
proved that they are the least
incidence have on the quality
academic of an educational center those who
the facilities that matter the least
you stay near the house the prestige
but good finally every day and
go pick up leo from school
excited to see that he had learned
how it had gone
he was having a great time with the
new friends I had created what
which was wonderful but I felt that
what he was learning was not what
sufficiently stimulating could
summarize the second grade curriculum of
preschool in songs games balls and
little balls and sticks sticks and balls
everywhere I’m simplifying by
course but where was the art where
there was classical music where was the
culture the cultures of the countries of the
world simply was not
so good after weeks and
weeks of balls and sticks and songs
and games that I really do not have anything
against them but simply
I felt that they were insufficient I approached
to the teacher to ask her when
start the good and that day I realized
that really the curriculum for
preschool were songs and games balls
and sticks then I said well maybe it’s
the school maybe is the school per year
next I changed the school we
we change schools and the following year
we went back to school to change
then then I was starting the
primary and annie was about to
start in that intellectual abyss of
little balls and sticks and I said no I can not
I realized that if I wanted things to
they would change actually had to found
the school that I wanted for my children and
that’s what I did
the third event that changed my life was
found a school
I must confess that I thought it was going to be
much easier than I was because I already
I had been a teacher of my own children
I had taught them at home with a lot
I rented a house I hired two
people who will help me and I managed
enroll 17 little ones
that first week of classes was one of
the worst of my life
all the children cried and cried and
they cried and there was no way
reassure them I felt frustrated
I felt desperate. Imagine not
I managed to calm down much less
teach them not even balls and sticks
nothing
because they did not stop crying from some
way I survived
and that first weekend I remember that
I seriously thought about recognizing my mistake
in having humility in approaching the
parents and tell them
I can not
but they know that in addition to the commitment that
had with those dads had a rent a
one-year rental contract and had two
employed then I said I can not
back out so easily so
least I have to complete this year and
I said I will complete this year I am going to
complete this year and then I release
of this responsibility
that was almost 20 years ago
Philadelphian Valley College was
growing at the same time that my children my
children my three children lion anís and santi
already crossed through their classrooms already
graduated and advanced to the following
stages of his life the school was my
gift for my children and today of course
continues with the passage of time we went
developing our own methodology
our programs integrate the
glenn doman’s proposals for the
school but we also incorporate other
such as technology and citizenship
global
of course we have not escaped the
controversy on many occasions we are
has questioned we have been asked
good and why are they going to teach the
children so many things since they are so
little ones thinking that we press them
in some way that we stole the
space that should be dedicated for the
game but you know we’ve never
forced any child to do anything
we simply enrich their environment with
stimuli with opportunities the
nature is responsible for making
On the other hand I am convinced that
the words learn and play are not
mutually exclusive are not antonyms
neither are the words on the contrary
complementary the child learns more
when he is playing and learning is the
most exciting game of life here
we have a small video of children of 4
years that are playing a lottery of
words in an open class with their
potatoes
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I did not have
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I saw these pretty little ones
fun I do not know about you I do not think
were struggling or suffering with
this reading experience if many
Sometimes they have asked us and because
teach children so many things if
at these ages they are not interested and the
they need but I would like to change the
question and why not why not
teach these things to anyone is going to
interest nothing if you do not know it first
when we teach our children
we are opening the appetite and the
curiosity about the most beautiful things in
our culture and knowledge
human
also when we teach our children
we are developing their brains
we are creating the structures
basic brain that will help us
to learn more and better today and during
rest of our life why not give them
that gift to our children
to yazira which is the television network
most important of the Middle East made
a documentary about our proposal
educational for its brief series the
education or rebel education and title
our documentary mexico the power of the
early education
when I’m excited to hear
these three words in one sentence in
mexico power and education and so
positive because they will not let me lie
usually when we hear the
Mexican word and education is the same
phrase is not good news
the fact that suddenly mexico and
education can be recognized
education in mexico as something innovative
in the international context and in a manner
positive is something that excites me a lot
I would like to introduce you the little video
promotional of the documentary that he made to the
yazira about our proposal in which
it summarizes very briefly what it is about
our school
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why
rebel in mexico
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this story started with three children
small and a restless mom
today we reach directly
with 10 schools in 4 countries around
800 children indirectly we have reached
to more than 50,000 children through
our textbooks in schools in
all of Latin America we have gone over
5 thousand teachers of 52 who are
thousands of children attending school
public schools of private
rural schools of indigenous schools
of marginal schools of all kinds of
schools but they know it’s still not
enough missing a lot to do is
unthinkable that millions of children
around the world do not reach their
potential simply because in the house
and at school we do not give them the atmosphere
what they need with the opportunities and
the stimuli to develop it
it is unforgivable, it is unacceptable that
let’s develop the brain of our
children that we do not open their minds and their
hearts with human interactions
warm and with programs that can
awakening the spark of curiosity
the intelligence either out of ignorance
out of fear or habit during
too much time we have taught to
our children very little too late and very
Evil is time we do something
respect all the children have inside
of itself the seed of genius but
it depends on us parents and educators
give them that favorable environment so that
little seed grow and germinate and if that
It means being rebellious and starting a
revolution in education because that way
be welcome the revolution many
Thank you
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