The influences that
teachers have in student’s thoughts
Human learning is inductive –
deductive that depends on each person (from his memory, motivation,
concentration, attitude and behavior), it does change your mindset and achieve
a higher level of diversity, complexity and integration. Part of the mindset
that the person brings (preconceptions) and recognizes the level of logical
thinking that has to encourage experiences that promote their skills of
observation, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and review.
All this is based on the conceptual structure of each
person, some of the ideas and preconceptions that he brings about a subject of
analysis, provides conceptual change is expected from the active construction
of new concept and its impact on the mental structure; confronting
preconceptions and ideas related to the subject, with the new learning concept,
as applied to specific situations (and relates to other concepts in cognitive
structure) in order to expand their transfer.
All social groups establish their rules, their values,
their practices and specific knowledge, define its mission and goals, within
these goals are also the goals of training each group seeks to achieve social
and individual identity and make it part of their reality.
Human learning is a process whereby construction
involves four fundamental aspects like:
1. The Self is the apprentice, who makes a significant
learning of cognition structured learning activities.
2. Knowledge is the key information and content or access
the sources of which are real objects, experience, educational materials,
libraries and tradition.
3. The role of parents, teachers, guidance tutor or
teacher who sets the audiovisual language teaching tools aid in sustained
switched.
4. The teaching methodology for adults to develop
their learning projects.
To give a clear idea of how humans think, we should be clear
what their learning process are, how it behaves, motivation and how the process
is done when the interaction between the student (apprentice, son), the teacher (parents) and
content to get a good learning process and the transformation in the thinking
of man.
Human learning is done in non-hierarchical and
interrelated levels that lead to the formation of formal thought as quoted
below:
1. Sensory: Is the object world begins to operate in
the form of concrete thinking.
2. Perceptual: The subjective world is sensory
interpretation.
3. Neuropsychological or cognitive: Is cerebral
interpretation.
4. Configurationally: The psyche, mental linking new
knowledge or behavior. This way we can get a proper evolution permanently
linking these levels to each other.
Similarly, I cannot ignore Piaget's theory of
constructivism, interactions and critical realism, giving concrete and formal
thinking in humans. This theory allows visualizing the evolution of concrete
thinking to formal thinking in a simple way, for this we will take each element
(constructivism, interactions and critical realism) and we will see what role in
this evolution.
Constructivism is opposed to empiricism and PTO
building knowledge from the interaction between subject and object.
Interactions, generates a dialectical movement between
subject and object generating knowledge construction.
Critical realism is where we perform a consensus
between what we know of the object in reality as such and relate within our
schemes.
Thus we can say that humans develop their thinking in
a associative way, starting with
inductive learning (making specific data entry and delivery models or general
rules) and reaching a deductive learning (making models or general rules and
delivery specific rules).
The success of all this development is linked to motivation that humans have to perform
a learning process. Motivation is the inner strength that leads man to discover
and learn new things, which compels him to meet the different needs that arise
every day and guide you to explore on your areas of interest. I could say that
motivation is the engine of human beings, if the engine is in perfect condition
and has a goal to reach, push the entire machine to it, but if the engine is no
strength, no goals, the machine will be, static, just watching life pass.
If we combine motivation with the learning process of
human beings in an objective way we can get a proper result and optimum process
lived as in the classroom. If the teacher spends time studying, knowing and
understanding the process of learning of each student, he or she may have a
greater chance of succeeding in the methodologies used, and if we also add
motivation, we may have a group of people not only present in a classroom to
hear but motivated to explore science fields of interest and with an open mind
willing to acquire the knowledge and experiences that the teacher will provide.
A student looks at his or her teacher as a model of
life, professionally and in labor. If the teacher shows his students an
integral being, ethical, intelligent, with a life plan clear and structured,
motivated to succeed every day, and enjoys teaching, the student may take him
as a role model.
It is important therefore that teachers never forget
that their own life is a model for their students.
Source: http://www.eumed.net/rev/cccss/08/rdce2.htm
