Motivation!

Generally speaking, the motivation to learn is one of the most important teacher’s helper in a classroom. Because you, as a teacher, are working with the student’s desires, so you can do more productive things with them. In fact, the motivation is the teacher’s responsibility, I mean; he/she has to make up classes which can to be interesting to the children and in this way can learn more with the classes.

To be honest, in the classes you can have a very special link with the students, and some of the teachers can not make a good use of it. Personally I think that to be a teacher is the most rewarding experience that a person can have, because you can have a big influence in the students for the rest of their lives. To put in another way, teachers have to do their best while they are teaching, because they are in charge to people, who can be great if they have the best teachers.

Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School...

Dave Eggers created a Tutoring Center, which give to the students a one-on-one attention. To this center go students who have troubles with their reading and writing English. Most of these students come from families where English is not spoken at their homes, so for them is more difficult to learn it. During the process, the tutors realize that the students improved their reading and writing skills. They even create a book, which publish the students’ work at the center. Nowadays this project spreads all over USA, and now the tutors are working at school hand by hand with teachers.

I think it is a great project and Chile has to copy, because we know that some of the teachers in the chilean education have a lack of sense of duty with the students. So, it’s really hopeful to know, that in the world are people who care about the others, and want to do a better world.


Dave Eggers. “Talks Dave Eggers' wish: Once Upon a School” TED, March (2008). Online. May 12th 2009.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/dave_eggers_makes_his_ted_prize_wish_once_upon_a_school.html

"Swine flu may be more infectious than we thought"

It is a worrying situation that we are not prepared to face it. The Scientifics are trying to find a vacuum, but the searching is turned more difficult. The illness is getting more transmissible, the Scientist`s Community is really concerned about it.
Fortunately, in Chile are not anybody with flu-like symptoms, but it’s impossible to think that we are save, because of the globalization, every single day arrives to Chile people from all the world. So, the authorities have to be aware to face this imminent pandemic.
The people, who is infected with this illness, is being told to stay at home to avoid infecting other people, because if the flu spreads, it will become more severe. In Mexico, the Swine Flu has killed 42 people and it has 1,112 confirmed cases. The lasts 5 cases were found in Argentina and Brazil.
Some ones think that the end of the world is closer; others think it’s just a new illness, like the Influenzavirus A (Bird Flu) and we are going to face it like the other sicknesses. I hope, as human beings as we are, we can overcome this terrible situation.

Sarah Boseley, “Swine flu may be more infectious than we thought – health chief” The Guardian UK (2009), May 9th 2009.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/08/swine-flu-who-advice

Grammar!

It’s difficult to correct our mistakes, because we are in the same process of learning. But the most common mistakes are the grammar ones. We don’t pay attention to past tense and when we have to use it. It is the same problem with other grammar tenses. I think all of us know how to use grammar, as I said before; we don’t pay attention to our mistakes, we don’t correct them. Another common mistake is we don’t improve our vocabulary; we use the same words all the time, we need to use the vocabulary that we learn at classes. Our blogs are good chance use and improve it!