Existen eventos que nos resultan sorprendentes y por lo inusual se quedan grabados en nuestra memoria, estoy seguro de que todos tenemos ese mecanismo de recordar las cosas que nos resultan tan sorprendentes e inusuales, hoy les vengo a comentar un recuerdo que me marcó de muchas formas y que me motivó a preocuparme por aprender de pedagogía.
Los números se inventaron por una sencilla razón, nuestra necesidad de contar, el primer número que contamos fue el 29, tallado con líneas en piedras y huesos hace más de 10.000 años. Hasta el momento la mayoría lo domina, no es complicado, la forma en la que le damos nombre a los números es inteligible, no tienes que conocerlos todos para saber el nombre que tienen; recuerdo que fue lo primero que me gustó de la matemática y eso que no era muy bueno con ella hasta que llegué a la universidad. Desde entonces me gusta incluir estos temas en mis conversaciones y aunque no tengo formación pedagógica, la mayoría de las veces me hago entender, supongo a que tomé cursos de recreación y fui parte de un grupo de demostraciones físicas que iba a los liceos de la ciudad a impartir charlas sobre sus fenómenos. Esto me enseñó a conservar un lenguaje sencillo al momento de dar mis charlas y me gusta aclarar en los cursos de ciencias que en realidad se trata de una clase de idiomas donde se aprende conceptos nuevos.
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There are events that are surprising to us and because of their unusualness they remain engraved in our memory, I am sure that we all have this mechanism to remember things that are so surprising and unusual, today I am going to tell you about a memory that marked me in many ways and that motivated me to worry about learning about pedagogy.Numbers were invented for a simple reason, our need to count, the first number we counted was 29, carved with lines in stones and bones more than 10000 years ago. So far most people have mastered it, it is not complicated, the way we name the numbers is intelligible, you don't have to know them all to know the name they have; I remember it was the first thing I liked about mathematics and I wasn't very good at it until I got to university. Since then I like to include these topics in my conversations and although I have no pedagogical training, most of the time I make myself understood, I guess I took recreation courses and was part of a group of physical demonstrations that went to high schools in the city to give talks about their phenomena. This taught me to keep my language simple when giving my talks and I like to make it clear in science courses that it is really a language class where you learn new concepts.
No me gusta subestimar la capacidad de un estudiante y atribuyo su rendimiento a su interés. De hecho tengo un primo que jamás fue bueno para las matemáticas, pero cuando quiso una página web para promocionar sus productos lo consiguió y actualmente es una de las cosas que lo mantiene. No obstante, el evento que presencié era algo que jamás había visto y le di un momento para que caminara mientras yo pensaba que iba a hacer, dejé pasar 5 minutos mientras me calmaba y organizaba mis ideas, nos volvimos a reunir, me disculpé preguntándole que si había visto algo sorprendente, me dijo que una vez vio una Tragavenado en el terreno de su familia y yo continué diciéndole que yo acababa de ver algo sorprendente y no sabía como reaccionar, pero qué seguro fue un bloqueo por la presión del examen.
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About 3 months ago I attended a student that I didn't know was going to give me the best lesson I can learn as a teacher (Not to say it was the biggest dismay of my life so far). After months of work, talking, explaining and practicing, I noticed signs that he was learning, but not quite understanding, things like knowing how to solve the problems, but not being able to write the solution; after many pages of exercises, tailor-made so that the first ones would form parts of the last ones, simple arithmetic exercises; the event occurred that would shake the idea I have of the student population, it turned out that doing an exercise, I write a result that gave 110*10, I write the usual = 1100 and end with the phrase ! My response to his silence and ignorance of the figure that was written on the paper led me to a deep abyss where insecurity and ignorance took over me creating a feeling of frustration, I did not know what to do in those 5 seconds of introspection that for me lasted an eternity.I don't like to underestimate a student's ability and I attribute their performance to their interest. In fact, I have a cousin who was never good at math, but when he wanted to have a website to promote his products he succeeded and it is currently one of the things that keeps him going. However, the event I witnessed was something I had never seen and I gave him a moment to walk around while I thought about what I was going to do, I let 5 minutes pass while I calmed down and organized my thoughts, we reconvened, I apologized asking him if he had seen something amazing, he told me he once saw a Tragavenado on his family's land and I went on to tell him he had just seen something amazing and didn't know how to react, but what I'm sure was a block due to the pressure of the exam.
La inseguridad es un sentimiento que opaca nuestro intelecto, con miedo no pensamos, recordé que a mi primo lo lastimaban mucho física y verbalmente; a mí, por el contrario, no me valoraban las cosas que hacía, es decir, siempre había un regaño si lo hacía mal, pero sí lo hacía bien no era suficiente. Volviendo a lo que les contaba, todavía tengo la motivación de trabajar en ese caso porque me ha enseñado mucho de mí, de enseñar y de la gente que me rodea; me parece que enseñar es una habilidad que todos debemos dominar, primero con los que más queremos y luego con nuestros hijos, además, en diferentes fases de nuestra vida tenemos la intención de compartir nuestra experiencia con las personas que más queremos para ayudarlos a tomar mejores decisiones. Ayudar a otros en momentos de dudas nos garantiza de alguna forma contar con mejores personas en el futuro, el bien que otorgamos a otros siempre se nos retribuye de alguna manera y la paciencia es una actitud que hace que nuestra vida sea más armoniosa.
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Insecurity is a feeling that dulls our intellect, with fear we do not think, I remembered that my cousin was hurt a lot physically and verbally; to me, on the contrary, they did not value the things I did, that is, there was always a scolding if I did it wrong, but if I did it right it was not enough. Going back to what I was telling you, I still have the motivation to work on that case because it has taught me a lot about myself, about teaching and about the people around me; it seems to me that teaching is a skill that we should all master, first with the ones we love the most and then with our children, besides, in different phases of our life we intend to share our experience with the people we love the most to help them make better decisions. Helping others in moments of doubt guarantees us in some way to have better people in the future, the good that we give to others is always returned to us in some way and patience is an attitude that makes our life more harmonious.
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