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My identity as a teacher

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Quito, julio 1 de 2017 Photo by @gerarldauc "Everybody is a genius.  But if you judge a fish  by its ability to climb a tree,  it will live its whole life believing  that it is stupid" Albert Einstein A question difficult to responds is, what is your professional identity? If you try to answer, I am sure that you are thinking much about yourself. But first, I would like to share a concept of identity according to Palmer., (2010) who said that “identity is a nexus where all the forces and that constitute the life converge in the mystery of self”. Well, I am going to try to answer this question through deepen about myself, and maybe, I will die trying it.   I conceive that the best option is to perform a retrospective about my university career. During undergraduate studies, I had the opportunity to know certain characteristic about me, and my teachers who were raised up my interest about science and the teaching. With respect to characteristics, I rea

What is education?

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Quito, julio 1 de 2017 Photo by @gerarldauc The term “education” may go beyond more our common understanding, because it involves a set of concepts, process, beliefs and it is not only an idea of a book, schools, students and teachers. Basically, a definition accepted of Education is “the wise, hopeful and respectful cultivation of learning undertaken in the belief that all should have the chance to share in life”. However, each term of this concept carries a series of deeper process at the person during its learning. Sometimes the learning will be as personal as collective, but at the end of the day, the outcome is a new understanding or appreciation of our world. To improve this learning, educators are the first whom create environments and relationships that helps to drill knowledge into people. From here, we can divide in different modes of learning. The first is formal education where the educator has a clear idea of what the students need to perform during the learn