Blog Post No. 9 What core skills are necessary to have when applying for a job of a teacher?

                Not everyone can teach. A particular set of skills is required to be a good teacher.

                First of all, a person who wants to be a teacher in the future must know his place. This individual has to have in mind that he is no longer with his equals. Therefore, the relationships between him and the students should be as such. Since an abnormal interpersonal relation with a pupil could lead to trouble. So if someone is looking forward to teach, his acting must fit his role.

                Second, a nice teacher must encourage his students to learn as much as they can. Helping them with their weak pionts and cheering their strengths, instead of punishing the ignorance, as some other people tend to do. In that way, a better learning eviroment is developed and because of that, the students will be more interested in learning the subject-matter. So the teacher should pushthe students to give the most of them in order to improve the class.

                Finally, if anybody wants to teach, the most iportant quality to have at the time to perform as teacher is patience. Because none of the other characteristics are important if the one who is teaching has no patience at all. In fact, if the person does not have patience or is unable to be calm, even in the most annoying situations, he would not be able to teach properly. Leading to a very uncomfortable learning enviroment.

                In conclusion, whoever wants to teach, needs to have a really special list of attributes.

Blog No 7/8 - School v/s University life

                School and university are both learning stablishments where you spend several years of your life and have a lot of things and aspects in common. However, there are also a handful of facets that distinguish one from another.

                In the university the learning enviroment is less stressful than the one from schools. Or so should it be, since in the academy you just have to study what you decided to, oppositely of what it is in schools where the children are forced to study every subject-matter. Although, even if the students decide what to study, it is their responsability to fulfill the assignments, because there will be no other to tell you what to do than yourself. The atmosphere is also more relaxed due to the lack of obligation to attend to every class. So even if the university is something new, it can be easier than school.

                With the begining of a new cycle, it comes a new self too. Because of the new place you enter when you start going to the university, you can be a better version of yourself correcting the little problems you may have had in school. Nonetheless, you will soon have to face the new problem: New people. With new people comes different styles and personalities. Therefore to coexist with your new classmates in this "new life", you should grow more tolerant. In that way you will evolve into a new person in this very different stage of life.

                Flexible schedules make a big difference. Unlike the timetable in school, the flexible hour hands that you acquire allow you to organize in a better way your daily life. With them people can easily plan activities with distinct times. In that way, people have a unique way to orginize their necesities.

                So even though school and university have several similarities , they also have unique sides that makes them unique.