Is the Great American Teacher Dead?

Micaela Libby  06/06/2018 TESOL 103  Cultural and Psychology  "Cultural psychology is the study of the way cultural traditions and social practices regulate, express, and transform the human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity for humankind than in ethnic divergences in mind, self, and emotion."   Richard Shweder Everyone have their own culture. Maybe some cultures we like and maybe other not. But we are no here to judge. We are here just to learn and respect. That is what I am going to say on  my classroom when I saw differences. We are not better than other. All the students that are here on this room to my eyes are the same, PEOPLE, and everyone would need to see your next with the same way.  Remember who you are. Remember where you are from. Remember what your parents taught you about respect and love and lets apply this here.  We don't will call our companions with nicknames that can hurt them. Everyone has their own name ...

Micaela Libby 06/05/2018 TESOL 103 Difference in Manners I think that difference in manners is something cultural but also personal too. Talking about cultural I had a lot of fun experiences having trouble to communicate with other people when I was on my mission (Brazil) and when I came to live in USA.  Like I said on other blog that I wrote, in Argentina we use a lot of hand gestures, a lot.  I didn't have idea how much we use it until I came to USA. A lot of things that I was doing always was wrong here and I felt that I cannot do anything and not offend someone else.  Now I remember those experiences and I laugh and is funny to me but before that was not funny.  In Argentina we don't use our fingers to eat. We use the knife, bread to put the food to the fork and eat. I was in shock when I came to USA and I saw on the restaurant, people putting their fingers on the food and after eat that. To me that is super disgusting but is something that a l...

Micaela Libby  06/04/2018 TESOL 103  Cultural Students in the  Classroom I think that during on the classroom, needs to have equally for all the students. The teacher doesn't need to be judge for the students and also the students don't need to be judge for the teacher. Everyone on the classroom need to respect all the people that are there to learn.  The teacher would need to search about the countries were her/his students are from. Doing this, would help to develop a better lesson.  Also, I think students need to respect the teacher always and do what the teacher says. Because the teacher wants the best for them and they need o know it.  I think that would be good let the students at the end of the class say something about the class or write in a paper an anonymous feedback about  how they felt on the classroom and also what the teacher can do to develop a better lesson.  Opinions and tolerance are important bu...

Micaela Libby 06/02/2018 TESOL 103 Attributional Tendencies Is so easy to judge others the would like to say that we forgot our self. I didn't have idea that to judge our self or other had a name that is the Attributional Tendencies.  I often can hear people said "wow, you never won", "I had good luck". And this can be classifieds as Internal Attributions  and External Attributions.  So now, how can we control it during the lesson in our classroom?  Is easy to judge, but also is not easy to recognize that is wrong.  During the classroom the teacher can explain what is attributional tendencies and that would be allowed to have an opinion and say what they think but working together we can have like a "Discussion Board" where we can learn about the opinion of others and respect everyone. Also, nobody is perfect so that's why like Carlos Romani said on his blog  "Failure and success are part of our temporary existence" an...

Micaela Libby 05/31/2018 TESOL 103 Personal Space Differences Is interesting to know how each culture has their own personal space and also is not each culture, this is also like the title says, is a personal space.  In Argentina we like to be very close to people that we like, family, friend and also we are very good to talk with people that we don't know. Also I think that everybody put their own space.  When I went to my mission (Brazil) as a Sister a few men wanted to hug me at the moment to say "Hi", and the same happens with the Elders in Argentina, woman want to give a kiss on the cheek when what to say "Hi" too.  I recognize that this is a culture that we have. When I went to USA for first time my husband present to  me his friends and also I kissed everyone, they open their eyes, wife and girlfriend wasn't happy with me and I didn't understood what was happening, and my husband never explained me nothing.   Few days after we ...

Micaela Libby 05/30/2018 TESOL 103  Individualism vs. Collectivism Individualism is the idea that the individual’s life belongs to him and that he has an inalienable right to live it as he sees fit, to act on his own judgment, to keep and use the product of his effort, and to pursue the values of his choosing. It’s the idea that the individual is sovereign, an end in himself, and the fundamental unit of moral concern. Collectivism is the idea that the individual’s life belongs not to him but to the group or society of which he is merely a part, that he has no rights, and that he must sacrifice his values and goals for the group’s “greater good.” Individualism and Collectivism both are super important and this not only depend with the country or culture, this depend on each person too.  Knowing about this would help during the classroom to know more the students and have an idea how to work with them and also prepare different activities, because not all t...