The importance of Innovation

The importance of Innovation

Innovations is a great tool which enables students to learn in a better way and of course efficiently, innovations is not a new phenomenon, people know about it and know how to innovate, but be able to do it it´s a different story.

People and especially educators know about this subject, they know how to innovate, sometimes he/she does not want to complicated themselves, they just perform the easiest way. It is much better, because be innovating mean to do many things in order to obtain good results, for that reason teachers in some cases, try to avoid the innovative decisions, I am talking about isolated cases for instance, lazy teachers.

The importance of innovation in the learning process in our educating system is the improving of the learning process; the question is how can we get this improving? In order to get with this objective we must work on the way of teaching, many people have been thinking that innovation is something totally new, for example the creation a new method or even strategy, it is not regarding this, innovate means do the same method or strategy, but in a different way, with the purpose of avoid the same thing over and over, the idea it´s basically give our class using the same topics with different activities, transforms the old and monotonous strategies, in something different, that allow student´s attention.

By the way, professor must be updating day by day, researching, looking for fresh ideas, applying into the classroom, so that´s part of our profession, innovations is not a decision or it is something that if I apply or not, be innovated is a must, I consider that is a requirement for educators.

Students complain and parents, too, about the teaching method apply for a specific teacher, a professor not well prepared student´s reactionis going to be negatively, they demonstrate uninterested, they become pessimistic, unenthusiastic and also the student´s expectancy is going to decrease in a high level, because the teacher is so bored. The idea of Education Innovation is prepared instructor with a clear objective that is definitely get excellent results in the Teaching Learning Process.

Nowadays the world has been becoming more technological advanced each day, that mean that we need to go through, going at the same step, that´s why updating is extremely important in our job. The technological advises have an important role in the Education Innovation, because technology is a tool that help us as teachers by using new way of teaching.

Today´s life, education provide a successful and fulfillment life style, have a Bachelor degree and other is the key to get into labor marketing, education provide us opportunities in order to get good future.

Creativity go through innovation, some professor said I do not know how to innovate what can I do? That happened when the instructor is lacking of imagination or maybe they have forgotten how to use it, imagination is an important key in order to be an innovate professor.

The innovation goes a little bite beyond, regarding what the syllabus or program ask for, we must make the difference in the tradition education and the education innovation. Teacher´s must be motivated to teach in an excellent way at the same time students are motivated to learn. In this situation motivation is another important key element to success teaching learning process. Every professor needs to be concerned about motivation, it is a quality that pupils, students, teachers, parents, school administrator and other members of the community, because the proposal of the educational system is to prepare people adequately for the demands into our society.

An educator is a professional who helps pupils and students learn and progress through their life. For that reason be a an educator is nor very simple, because it is not just give classes, we need to take into account, students motivation, students’ self-esteem, students’ needs and abilities.

In order to conclude, the innovation has a significant role in the educational system, so education without innovation does not have the expected result, that´s why student´s academicals result depend on the instructor way of teaching, as much innovate class we apply better results we get into our pupils.

The Minister of Education and the Education system demand us be innovate for the only one purpose, help our customer and who are the costumer? The costumer means our students.

We are giving a service, as a result of that; we need to give it in an excellent quality. On the other hand, if it does not happened or never occurred, our clients are going to desert, we do not want this, working on innovation is the best technique to avoid students’ desertion, and students lack of interest, and lack of motivation.

By the way, the main purpose of the innovation is the improvement of the learning process. Improvement is the key of the successful, there is no option and no way, the only one is innovate for student ´s benefit.

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Teacher´s attitude

Teacher´s Attitude

There are some factors that affect students Learning-Process such as economic situations, cultural aspects, cognitive problems, and one point very important it is related with the teacher´s attitude that is the concern in this paper. Those are internal and external situations that really affect directly positive and negative, the student´s Learning-Process.

When we refer to the Teacher´s Attitude in the Learning Process, it involves a plenty of situations for instance, lack of confidence, lack of coherence in the subject, lack of motivation, and in some cases the conditions or the environment under which teachers work.

Before I start to develop those situations, I am going to give a concept about what Attitude is? The word attitude (from Latin aptus) is defined within the framework of social psychology as a subjective or mental preparation for action. It defines outward and visible postures and human beliefs. Attitudes determine what each individual will see, hear, think and do. They are rooted in experience and do not become automatic routine conduct.

Attitude means the individual's prevailing tendency to respond favorably or unfavorably to an object (person or group of people, institutions or events). Attitudes can be positive (values) or negative (prejudice).

Since the first day of classes students are paying attentions, and watching up about his or hers teacher´s attitude, how she/he is? The way she/he is teaching, as a result of that, if the instructor has a lack of confidence regarding his/hers subject matter, students feel it. This issue happened when the professor does not care about his/her teaching. Unfortunately there are teachers just waiting for a salary or even a simple job. In this profession, we as educators must be confidence in what we are doing, In order to avoid uninteresting students in our subject matter, we need to be secure, believe in ourselves.

Lack of coherence in the teaching learning process, means that the professor is not well prepared, students are so intelligent they perceive if the instructor is improvising or not, so they lose the interest, provoking student´s distraction, lack of class control. We need to be careful, if we are a really educators, we must be self-prepared, because we are educating people, with the purpose of integrating into our society capable, to think, react, through problems, and give possible solutions to the problem presented.

One the most important aspect presented in this reaction, it is the motivation. Teacher´s attitude affect directly, the student’s motivation positively or negatively, in this position we have two ways help or destroy.

If we want to motivate our students, it is necessary start by ourselves, because if we as educators are not motivated, this feeling is transferring into the student´s mind. The class must be innovated, the activities, the techniques, the method need to renew, in order to catch student´s attention, and so that our motivation is going to splash into the environment, motivation is like a kind of contagious song, if he/she likes or get into, they feel our need, our speciation, our goals, for that reason his/hers desire is going to, or become in just one. As teachers, should be able to do something beyond our teaching and if can make or have a good relationship with our students, in order to achieve that they can see not just like the serious professor, it is even more than that, become into theirs friend, provoking better comprehension into each other, trying to know what are theirs necessities, abilities, doing so we get strong results. According to Barry (1999), students are humans first and learners second.That means, if we want to get good results in the academicals process, teachers should be interact with theirs students, become confident, I consider that this issue should be apply as the first strategy, get our students as the teacher´s friend, with that objective achieved, learning process is going be much easier. Sometimes it could be something dangerous, we must take care about it, in order to distinguish the teacher´s role, for example; a student could be thinking, I am the teacher´s friend, so I am going to pass the course, it is not the purpose obviously, be the teacher´s friend mean, be the person who listen that student in a difficult situation, try to know what are goal he or she want, with the purpose of helping them. So as a result of that be the teacher´s friend does not mean be the teacher´s pet, because that is another connotation.

The question, how our attitude as educators affect the students? It is very simple; we are educating, teaching, instructing, and forming good people in order to introduce into the society. Students are watching up to another, looking for a model (teacher, parents, mentor, and friend), that´s why attitude is very important in the teaching-learning process. Because in some cases students try to imitate the model, good or bad they are going to imitate, so the idea it´s that imitate a good model, for the students benefits.

Sometimes the environment in which professor works, affect his/her attitude positively or negatively, for instance if the instructor is working in a school or high school with an excellent infrastructure, excellent materials, the school or high school location is not difficult to access, so I mean the professor has all the comfortable conditions in order to work with the best effort, there is nothing to do, just make our job that is educating. On the other hand, a teacher is going to teach in a school with terrible conditions, regarding infrastructure, very difficult to access, is not the same attitude of the instructor, affecting directly students learning process.

To summarize, we choose this job, which involve plenty of situation in which we are not costumed to, but it is something mandatory do our best, teacher´s attitude toward teaching learning process plays a very important and significant role, that´s why we must be enthusiastic even more than optimistic. Student´s positive attitude depend on the teacher´s attitude, it has a relationship between both of them, because the attitude of the professor mold the students one.

Motivation one of the most important point discuss in this paper, motivation is not something that I choose or not, is a little bite more deeper, is part of our process as an educator. Professor motivated equal students motivated, result goal achieved. We are molding people it´s something that we need to care about that situation, as much we motivated ourselves the teaching learning process become so easy, because is something that we like very much, in addition students reflect our way of being.

Furthermore, teacher´s dedication that he or she gives to the job, increase in a high level the student´s self-esteem, and getting interest in the subject. The environment where the professor is teaching, I consider that it should not be affect the teacher´s performance. Because it is supposed we have vocation, that´s what we want. Finally if we want to get succeed in our profession (educators) motivation is the key.

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React toward Defining Education Innovation

Defining Educational Innovation

When we listen, the Word innovation many people think about computers, internet and many others technology devises, but this way of thinking is not totally wrong, if we are talking about innovation it is a little bite wider: According to Merriam Webster, it's defined as: 1) the introduction of something new, 2) a new idea, method, or device: novelty .

So as a result of that, as English teachers we need to take into account this important issue. In order to be clear that educational innovation is not give a class with the most modern equipment or using the most expensive technology devises, it is not so. It is very simple, when the professor introduce a new idea or even method in order to innovate we are applying educational innovation with the purpose of avoid the monotonous class, that provokes better result in the academy purposes.

There is one important point that called me my attention; it is when the abstract refers to the following question, why does a new textbook succeed in the public education system of one country while identical materials fail in another? We need to take into account some factors such as economic, political, and cultural aspect, but the most important issue that I consider in order to get the successful or fail any course, it is the way the textbook is going to be taught. It could be the best textbook with the best strategies, wonderful activities, tested in the best University or Collage, but if the instructor does not apply well or even apply in a monotonous way, the best textbook does not work.

So, this is part of the innovation, the way of any professor teach has to be innovated in order to get better results in the learning process. For instance two professors are using the same textbook, teacher “A”, uses it in a normal way, he does not complicated, apply monotonous activities, teacher “B” uses it applying innovated activities, new strategies, make the students to be motivated, as a result of that, the first teacher does not get enough results, but the second one get the best results. So, that means innovation is extremely important especially when we are talking about Education, we as educators must be innovated as much as possible. For me innovation means get successful. That´s why new textbooks do not work at the same manner, the difference between one teacher and other it´s very simple, it is the way of teaching, the way professors apply innovation.

Another issue discussing in the abstract refers to the teacher´s optimism, I totally agree when it said that nowadays educators are less optimistic. Many years ago teachers were more optimistic, enthusiastic and of course very motivated, they knew very well the word vocation. But why professors are less optimistic there are some factors in consideration, for example lack of committed, lack of motivation and the methodology used. If we analyze those situations, a teacher without committed, or without motivation, become into bored teacher and even lazy teacher, provoking a series of consequences in the Teaching-learning process, due to this situation students are going to get the worse part, because the negative effect of the teacher, is going to act in the academicals results on his or hers students, that´s why optimism and enthusiasm needs to be part of the Teaching-Learning process.

Nowadays competitiveness is really hard, that means that many “teachers” are looking for a job, some of those teachers are looking for just a salary, and not a profession. In this job need to be committed, motivated and something very important have a vocation; with those aspects his or her teaching process is going to become excellent.

The idea in the process syllabus, has a good direction innovated through a problem solving model change, students need to interact in real situations by thinking critically, learn by doing that´s one of the most important goal, the idea of this purpose is that our students create their own solutions to the problematic presented in the society . There is one aspect that I disagree with; it said that the content, materials, methodology and assessment are negotiated between the instructor and learners; with this methodology we have advantages and disadvantages. If we talk about the benefits we have students get more confident, less shy, less complications, because they negotiated the way they want to be taught, with so, students become more comfortable, I am not saying that negotiated some points of the contents, materials and even the methodology is bad or terrible, but negotiated the whole course, for me it does not work. Discussing the negative effect, if the learners select what they want, it could be possible that reject some contents that are important, in this case students share the authority with the professor by adding or deleting information in the program or syllabus.

In order to conclude, Educational innovation must be apply every single day in the Teaching-Learning Process, educators need to be updated in their subject matter, using different activities, strategies, methods, approaches, with the purpose of benefit the students, innovation is part of our profession.

By the way there are plenty of textbooks; technology devises that are suppose the best, for study purpose, getting them is not necessarily get the best method in order to learn the one hundred percent, if the teacher or instructor does not apply efficiently.

If we want to get excellent results we must innovate our class, which means try to eliminate bored and monotonous classes, by introducing fresh ideas, creating a good environment, all of this, is with the purpose of get our students motivated and enthusiastic for the subject matter.

References.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/innovation