[ESP-ENG Iniciativa: Pedagogía 📚 // Initiative: Pedagogy 📚

Today I am pleased to join an important initiative of the #Humanitas community, where I was tagged by my dear friend @acont and where we will address the topic of Pedagogy and Education.

As I mentioned in the introduction, the educational issue is very important in these "strange" times that our society is living, where values seem to not exist and where we call good things bad, and bad things we call good. . It should be noted that although the first school is the home and the first teachers the family, always from the classroom there is something that can be rescued, because there is still a very important aspect and that is that children try to model behavior and attitudes of his teachers... how many of us have not heard the phrase “That's not it! It's like my teacher says”.

That is why, as teachers, we must be very careful about our behavior and the things we do inside and outside the classroom. Something that we must be clear about is that we exercise power, we are leaders in the classroom and we must appropriate it to exercise a Humanist Pedagogy and be able to achieve that society that we want and yearn for, where respect for others prevails over all.

Education is a social process whose function is the integral development of the personality, capacities and attitudes of an individual; it contributes to the integral formation of man as a priority resource for the social, economic, political and cultural development of a nation. That is why it can be affirmed that education is the guarantor of all social developments, where it is teachers as leaders in the educational process, who have the job of guiding and mediating students in this active acquisition of knowledge.

In the same order of ideas, we have Pedagogy considered as a “social science focused on research and reflection on education”. It arises with the idea of systematizing and optimizing educational processes in order to improve these processes and be able to acquire meaningful learning, where the pedagogue has the task of building theories related to educational research.

Now, after taking a short walk through education and pedagogy, it is appropriate to answer How important is pedagogy for me? The answer is simple, it is extremely important, as a teacher of natural sciences, my mission is to seek, investigate and implement different innovation strategies that help students in understanding the different physical phenomena. My greatest desire is to eliminate the label of "the three aunts" and encourage interest and desire for the areas of basic sciences and all related careers, without neglecting the demand and quality that they deserve.

Another question related to the initiative is: Did I have good teachers? Do I remember one in particular? I remember with great affection my elementary school teachers, especially the one from 1st to 3rd grade, who was a teacher that with discipline, respect and love taught me to read, write, add, subtract, multiply, divide, as well as all the areas programmed for those years of schooling. As to whether I remember a teacher in particular, there are several, but I think it is appropriate to mention my Physics teacher in 3rd grade, who made me grow in my love for such a beautiful science. Professor Enrique Martinez, whom I remember with great affection for his jocularity in class and for looking for the necessary strategies so that we all learned at least the basic contents of Physics.

Next, how do I believe that pedagogy has influenced me? Analyzing the meaning of pedagogy, I can say that thanks to the pedagogy promoted by the teachers who have taught me throughout my academic life, I have managed to achieve my university career in a meaningful way, with values and love for it. Did I dedicate myself to education? Yes, how did I make that decision? I am and will be dedicated to education until the end of my life, although it was not what I had in mind when I graduated from high school, I believe that God placed me there because I knew it was where I belonged and where I would be very happy. When I had to go through the process to enter the University my priority was always the Bachelor's Degree in Physics, but because of the distance and how expensive it would be to go to live in the state of Merida, I had to take plan B which was to become a Physics Teacher, what I never imagined is that I would end up leaning more towards didactics.

A very good question is Do I believe that current pedagogy needs a change? Pedagogy always needs a change, because it must adapt to the social, political and technological advances that different societies experience, in order to be able to meet the demands of each region. Pedagogy is like medicine, it must advance every day and new techniques and strategies must be investigated. What do I propose for the construction of a new pedagogy? First of all, I think that there must be a reform from the alma mater of education, and that is to incorporate from the first semesters subjects with professional practices, so that future teachers can discover their vocation from the beginning of the career. On the other hand, it is time to overthrow traditional behaviorist education and employ innovative strategies where students are no longer seen as repositories of information, but as critical and thinking beings capable of constructing their own knowledge in a meaningful way.

La escuela no puede ser reflejo de la sociedad que tenemos; la escuela debe ser reflejo de la sociedad que queremos. Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa

The school cannot be a reflection of the society we have; the school must be a reflection of the society we want. Luis Beltrán Prieto Figueroa