WE DID IT! WE MADE IT! WE GOT HERE!
We have just finished another semester from our program! And this is so exciting because we are only missing one more semester to graduate as degreed teachers!
Right now I feel like this semester passed just flying in front of my eyes, but I think that during the process I didn't see the light at the end of the tunnel. This was pretty much a good semester. Although I realized some ugly things from my personal life and now that I know I won't be the best student from the program, I feel like I really learned about my whole process and now I feel that I've grown up so much.
As the semester ends, this project does it too... at least during vacations.
I don't know.
I kind of made a dream come true with this homework, to be honest. I have already had three other blogs and they haven't had so many entries like this. Even if this blog is being only read for one person, this exercise is pretty much what I've always wanted to do.
I feel like this semester my English did improve, my writing kind of got better, at least I've deleted some of the fossils I had, like "people is" or "I didn't saw". I tried to be more constant with my own process and I feel that it was because of my teacher, and even I know comparisons are not ok, I have to analyze the two messages that I received from my English courses this past two semesters.
The previous semester I had such an amazing teacher but so soft too. He was always saying that we are the ones who need to be engaged with our process, and he proposed a similar exercise than this one, but it was vague and not really clear for me. I have to admit that every class was a surprise for me because I never knew what was the homework or the task or what part of the course we were in. The thing is that he didn't want to give us homework because he thought the process must be natural.
Now, with my last teacher, the first thing that I notice is that she never spoke in Spanish, not even once, even when we talked to her in Spanish. Second, she did kind of express that it was our responsibility to have our process but, she just told us "you need to create a narrative blog every week to practice your writing, I'll be checking" I think that was enough for us to get engaged and committed with the process.
So what I can see here is that some teachers... I don't know if it's believing too much on their students, but they think that only by explaining how important a homework is your students are going to get that idea and kind of idealize the homework and enjoy it. No. Most of the times it doesn't happen. Sometimes you just have to assign homework and hope for the best, not trying to convince students but also not leaving the motivation process behind.
So... yeah, this is how this ends. Thanks a lot for allowing me to have this experience. I think I have never written so much in my whole life... IN ENGLISH. I really enjoyed this.
Thanks for reading.
