Pular para o conteúdo principal

Week 6: Response to "Individualism vs Collesctivism" - 10/21/2021

    Living in society demands certain written and non-written rules about what is permitted and what is prohibited. To be accepted we must do the permitted thing and avoid the prohibited. But have you known that these rules changed dramatically according to the place that you live?

    We have what is called Individualism and also Collectivism. In Individualism, you are the center. You are the most important part of society. This means that you satisfy first your needs and then the others. But when you are doing something wrong, is just your fault. In Collectivism in another hand, the group needs to come first. This means putting your need aside for the benefit of the group.

    When teaching we need to understand this background from our students to better understand and know how to conduct the class. Which will be the best approach to use? The student will receive and perceive our conducting in the same way? How to extract their best-in-class activities?

    I invite you to share your ideas!

Comentários

  1. Wenderson Silva22 de outubro de 2021 às 07:55

    I like to be in the center of the circle of my friends.
    Am I individualist or collectivist?
    I'm kidding... excellent job.
    Thanks for sharing this awesome post.

    ResponderExcluir

Postar um comentário

Postagens mais visitadas deste blog

Week 7: Response to "Cross Cultural Students in the Classroom" - 10/26/2021

      Today we will talk about Cross-Cultural Students in the Classroom. How we as Teachers can conduct a class with a variety of cultural backgrounds? How can we use the differences in our favor? How can we anticipate some possible barriers/issues?     As we go deeper in this discussion, I want to invite you to read my opinion regarding Cultural issues such as Paradigm, Differences Concerning Time, Miscommunication, and so on, as you can find here in this blog. All of those mentioned topics help us to answer my initial questions. You see, I am deeply passionate about music. When I was younger, I used to sleep listening to a cassette from the Tabernacle Choir. And when I was listening, I was supposed to be the conductor. It always impressed me how one single person can produce such a difference in the interpretation of music! For a non-music-taught person, it seems that the conductor is just making movements with their arms. But for a music-taught person, each m...
Postar um comentário
Leia mais

Week 6: Response to "Attributional Tendencies" - 10/23/2021

 For the last post from this week, we will talk about Attributional Tendencies. According to Wikipedia Attribution " deals with how individuals perceive the causes of everyday experience, as being either external or internal." So, for example, when people have success is due because of their effort, their desire, or some kind of meritocracy. But when the success is from another person, then is because of the environment, or some kind of external help. The same occurs in the failure, but then changes to external reasons to explain our own failures and the failures from another person is their fault. This is important to have in mind when Teaching. How our Attributional Tendencies can affect our judgement about our students? It's an exercise to put this aside to really understand and help better our students. How do their Attributional Tendencies affect their performances? This is a subject to be studied deeper for sure!
Postar um comentário
Leia mais

Week 02: Response to "Is the Great American Teacher Dead?"

In this week's assignment, I read an article by John J. Ivers called "Is the Great American Teacher Dead?"     Ivers is a Ph.D., currently Dean of the College of Language & Letters from Brigham Young - Idaho University. In his article, he invites the reader to think about the U.S student culture and their lack of motivation and inspiration. According to his study, this issue is faced in all U.S colleges, even the most famous and elite Institutions. It seems that teachers are now just the delivery of a message, and the students are just listeners. The Institutions are facing a lack of depth in their teachings. They spread an environment closer to a war zone than a supportive, inviting, creative environment as the Colleges are mean to be. I need to say that here in Brazil aren't so far from the same perspective. We can see Colleges full of students, but we are not seeing their growth during their pursuit of a degree. The most important discoveries and innovations ...
1 comentário
Leia mais