Hello everyone¡ It's me Irene Barreiros an English teacher at the Sucre Language Center.
Welcome to our Sucre on the go podcast, an audio space to learn English in a different way everywhere you go.
Regarding the month of the teacher, today we will talk about a very important topic.
The Role of the Teacher
Education is a process that generates learning, transmits knowledge, develops skills, values, beliefs and habits about the discovery and construction of reality. It is immersed in all spheres of society, family, school, university. People start the educational process based on a standardized scholastic system from our earliest years of age. We are constantly finding ways ofacquiring knowledge. The exact sciences, the human sciences, the natural sciences, etc., are an example of this.
This sometimes forcesteachers to comply with the contents of a curricular program. However, we must understand that education goes beyond academic training. Our true role as teachers is to contribute to a generation of critical human beings, capable of reflecting, of understanding themselves and the society that surrounds them, of creating, and establishing empathy with their historical realities to create a type of transformative praxis from there.
Being a teacher, therefore, implies reinventing not repeating. It means raising awareness about freedom and establishing a commitment with others and with yourself. His responsibility implies making education become a task in permanent change and construction, in tune with the social, political, economic, and cultural reality. The classroom is the best setting for this, not only to impart knowledge but to promote the noblest work of the human being: thinking. "Education as a practice of freedom implies committing to the transformation of the subject and the world" (Freire, 1971).
We have all had excellent teachers throughout our live, but there is one who has marked our lives. Ruth Martínez Pastel was the English teacher at that girls' school who taught me two things: to believe in myself, and to think.
Now we will listen to students’ real experiences about teachers who marked their lives!
Josselyn Espín, B1.1
Throughout my student life I met many teachers, each with different ways of teaching and diverse personalities. I didn't have a good math teacher at school, but grades weren't a problem. However, in school, the low grades made my parents hire a private teacher. His name is Cristian Mejía, who with his patience and love for numbers was able to awaken my interest in mathematics; so far I am very grateful. Thanks to him, not only did I get a good grade on my tests, but my taste for mathematics and physics returned. Now I can also help my friends who are still in school with their homework.
Michelle Cadena, B1.1
The name of my best teacher is MaríaBelén, I met her when I was 15 years old, and I was in the first year of high school at the Consejo Provincial de Pichincha School. My teacher taught me Physics. I remember that she was very patient, dedicated, intelligent and loved her work.
I did not know Physics and thanks to her I came to love the subject. My teacher taught me that with dedication and time I can learn whatever I want. Now I enjoy studying physics as my teacher did every time she solved a problem in class.
Carlos Sellan, B1.1
The name of my best teacher is Gladys Aroca. She taught me in my tenth year at the "Humberto Mata Martínez" public school. With her I learned English. When I remember it, I feel joy and satisfaction. What keeps my memory of her is that she taught me with dedication and demand an infinity of language resources that led me to learn this second language with ease. Regular, irregular and compound verbs, as well as the structure to make sentences in the present simple, past simple, present perfect and much more ...
Jorge Erazo, B1.1
The teacher who taught me what to do with my life is at the same time my father. Cesar Erazo was my teacher in 2015, at the Dr.
