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What or who influences a student´s perception towards a subject?

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   Image Source: https://amprensa.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/estudiantes.jpg      The role of teachers involves more than just coming to a classroom or starting a video conference and teach information to the learners in order for them pass the course. While teachers create evaluations, develop their lesson plannings (adapting them for the different groups and taking into account the students´ necessities), and look for activities or ways for them to be interested in the subject, we as educators must be aware of the power we have to influence our pupils to love or hate our class, but it depends on how well or not we know them, how useful they perceive the activities in everyday situations, but also their families are part of this core of great impact. I will use a Costa Rican short film production made in 1970 and related to education, to exemplify what I say.      At the beginning of the movie we see "Lito", a low-socioeconomic scho...

Becoming a teacher is... predestined?

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       This is the experience of Josué David B.O, a third-year college student but who is its ninth semester for different reasons, but many experiences behind that does not regret.      I remember the time when I started my studies in the English Teaching Major at the University of Costa Rica, my first thoughts were that I needed to change my career because I aimed to enter to Graphic Design; two were the attempts I created to do so, but no positive results awaited me. I was resigned, and with remorse, I finally decided to finish that career.      Throughout the semesters, I started to fall in love with English Teaching, something that I would never imagine in the past. Before I finished high school, I was telling me that somehow I would have liked to help people, but I was not sure how to do it. Now that I am at my junior year (2020), I feel that me, Josué Bonilla, was meant to be a teacher because somehow life or something ...