"A Complex but Beautiful Profession"

After reading the articles “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” by Jane Jacobs and “Designs for Working” by Malcolm Gladwell, we realize about certain aspects or ideas that could be or could not be applicable to the different classroom settings.

In the article “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” we could appreciate that the author try to show us that most of the social inequality is the result of bad projects. The same thing happens when we think in the classroom setting. Jane Jacob says “Under the surface, these accomplishments prove even poorer than their poor pretences. They seldom aid the city areas around them, as in theory they are supposed to”. Therefore, a teacher that, for example, prepares a class without thinking in her children’s needs, will not get positive results from it letting children anchored without option.

If we, as future teachers, really want to change the bad quality of education now, we do have to go through our children’s hearts and satisfy their real needs putting in their hands such a useful tool as English language is. Teachers have to teach pupils how to use this magnificent tool to discover what is behind themselves and the world that, most of the time, we think we know.

On the other hand, from the article “Designs for Working” we can think about and get important ideas to improve the interaction among children which is fundamental for them could learn, support and foster from each other. To do this, as future teachers, we have to prepare as pair as group works for our pupils. As examples of pair and group works we can mention dialogs, interviews, plays, etc.

Finally, studying to be a better teacher every day thinking in our children benefits for them to be comprehensive human beings we could get that spiritual change that we have been whished for a long time.