the courage to teach, fears!

I.       What are some of your fears in the classroom? How have you dealt with them? What have you learned about yourself and about fear as a result?

 Well, my fear in the classroom as a student are many, and have to deal with them every day I realize that before now I used to have more fears than now. I know thats fears are weeknesses but they can be strenghts, if we work on it, for instance when I had to performing a class in front of my classmates a feel nervous, and very frustrated because I don’t want to make mistakes, I don’t want to look like a fool, so my insecurity make me get confused, and I don’t have clear ideas on my mind. Now I know that I have to work on that because I want to improve on my skills in order to be a good teacher. One of my fears as a teacher is not to be a good teacher because I really want to be a good one, and help the students, motivate them, know their needs, and increase in them the feeling of be success in life, but first of all, I need to do it for myself.

II.     Palmer writes, “Good teaching is an act of hospitality toward the young, and hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest” (p. 50). In what specific ways do you think a teacher has to be hospitable to students? In what ways do they treat them as unwelcome guests? How do teachers benefit from practicing hospitality toward students?

In my point of view the there are many ways of be hospitable with the students for instance, know their names, communicate between classes, greet outside the class, ask if they understood the topic or how the another subject is going, what I mean is to show interest on helping them in whatever they need, tell, or congratulate them when they have done well job. some ways that you as a teacher could treat them as an unwelcome guest it can be not only don’t take into account none of the aspects described before but also don’t give the students the information they need about the course so as to alleviate any unnecessary apprehensions. Then they can focus better on the learning; another point is the teachers’ patient with students’ slow learning, added that the teacher should take seriously  the students’  work If we as teachers try to be hospitable to students the environment in the classroom would be safe and the students are going to learn in a better way. they are going to engaged in the learning process, And when hospitality becomes a natural and integral part of the classroom experience, the results are well worth the effort.
 

III.    Write about a fear, not necessarily related to teaching that once controlled you, but no longer does.  What caused you to confront that fear? What helped you get loose from it? What were the results? What did you learn? 

Well, when I was a little girl I remember how much I wish to have a bike, and ride it around the neighborhood, and when my parents bought it for me on my birthday seven I  was so happy, and I cannot say thanks to my parents enough. When I tried to ride for the first time I felt down, and I almost broke my leg, I cried a lot, and I didn’t want to try again. Every afternoon I used to sit outside home, and I used to see my friends riding their bikes, they used to yell "hey get your bike and play with us”, but I always told them lies like “sorry I don’t feel good I’m sick, my mom told me don’t ride it today, or just no I don’t like it”, and I remember how disappointed I felt with myself. One day my aunt and her little daughter came home, and my cousin saw my bike and told me if she could play for a while and I laughed and said yes, when she rode  the bike I got surprise because she was younger than me, and she can did it perfectly. I felt terrible when my parents told my aunt that I cannot ride it yet, and my cousin laughed about me. I felt so ashamed, but the next day I try to ride my bike again, and I remember that I felt down many times but I was determined to learn, then I have learned perfectly. I learn that it wasn’t so difficult how I thought, and it was my fear to fall that don’t let me try and enjoy it, but when I have controlled my fear all was ok. 

  Evelyn Fox Keller says of Nobel Prize—winner Barbara McClintock that her knowing came from “the highest form of love, love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference” (pp. 55).  Does this kind of love have a place in education? If not, why not? If so, how might it be taught? How might it make a difference if we could teach students to love the world in this way?
 well in my point of view i think this kind of love take place in the classroom because since we have decided to be teachers is a feeling of love because it's not something easier. if we as teachers teach with love in the classroom, we're going to build strong relationship with our students in order to provide a good environment in which we'll spend more time teaching than disciplining the students; also the students are going to feel important, and care to us, and they are going to achieve the learning with less stress, so they are going to work in the class with extrinsic, and intrinsic motivation. we as teachers have to realized that our students will be the future of our country, and we have the obligation of transform them in good persons, so we have set the stage in which our students have the opportunity to grow into responsability and caring adults.