Keirsey temperament

We had to do a test from the web site www.keirsey.com. The Keirsey Temperament Sorter is a powerful 70 question personality instrument that helps individuals discover their personality type. After 71 questions, this is my result:

"ARTISAN"

All Artisans (SPs) share the following core characteristics:

• Artisans tend to be fun-loving, optimistic, realistic, and focused on the here and now.
• Artisans pride themselves on being unconventional, bold, and spontaneous.
• Artisans make playful mates, creative parents, and troubleshooting leaders.
• Artisans are excitable, trust their impulses, want to make a splash, seek stimulation, prize freedom, and dream of mastering action skills.

Artisans are the temperament with a natural ability to excel in any of the arts, not only the fine arts such as painting and sculpting, or the performing arts such as music, theater, and dance, but also the athletic, military, political, mechanical, and industrial arts, as well as the "art of the deal" in business.

Artisans are most at home in the real world of solid objects that can be made and manipulated, and of real-life events that can be experienced in the here and now. Artisans have exceptionally keen senses, and love working with their hands. Artisans will strike off boldly down roads that others might consider risky or impossible, doing whatever it takes, rules or no rules, to accomplish their goals. This devil-may-care attitude also gives the Artisans a winning way with people, and they are often irresistibly charming with family, friends, and co-workers.

In the Artisan view, today must be enjoyed, for tomorrow never comes.

Cuban Educational System

This class Katherine, Pedro and Fabian presented their topic and debate about Cuban Education.

Some important facts:

• Cuba maintains the highest rate of literacy in Latin America.


• If they graduate from the preparatory college school, they can attend college for free if they choose.


• The record of Cuban education is outstanding: universal school enrollment and attendance; nearly universal adult literacy.

And they have:

• Great attention to teachers (extensive pre- and in-service training, high status and morale, incentives, transparent system of accountability, strategies for developing a culture of professionalism, rewards for innovation)


• Low-cost instructional materials of high quality

After these valuable information our classmates separated us in two groups to start the debate.

the debate was really entertainment because all of us had something to say, so we share opinions and as a conclusion we think that we are not prepared for use this method in our country, because the government prefer to invest the money in other matters, and I think do not take serious the education in our country.

British Educational System

Today was the turn of Evelyn, Maria Teresa and Rodrigo.
They presented about the British educational system and focused on "Public School".
Schools that are very different from what are our public school just look at the picture that belong to Wellington college (a public school)

I enjoyed the presentation because I learnt about a different educational system and also because it was really precise in terms of time and very well prepared by my classmates.
Ones the presentation finished we started a nice debate where we gave our arguments about this topic.
And as I said in the debate as a conclusion "I prefer my children are in school learning and studying instead of being alone at home"

Wordle.net

This picture is the result of the page in the tittle http://wordle.net/.
this web site allowed us to do that, we just have to put our paragraph or what we want to write and the web side transform that into a nice form of letter. There are different fonds and you can write what you want. Pretty nice!

Educational research

In the last class Mr. Litman gave us as homework look for the term "Learning to learn"
in a new search page www.cuil.com. I got different web pages with this concept.
Finally I decided the following page http://www.indiana.edu/~reading/ieo/digests/d163.html
In this web page I found a work Prepared by: Karen Ngeow and Yoon-San Kong and it was called "Learning to Learn: Preparing Teachers and Students for Problem-Based Learning"

Problem-based learning (PBL) is an educational approach that challenges students to "learn to learn". Students work cooperatively in groups to seek solutions to real-world problems and more importantly, to develop skills to become self-directed learners. Here, the goal of problem-based learning is viewed as learning for capability rather than learning for the sake of acquiring knowledge. PBL is unique in its integral emphasis on core content along with problem solving (Gallagher, 1997). Within the context of reading in the PBL classroom, learning thus becomes much more than the process of mere knowledge seeking. Students develop critical thinking abilities by constantly relating what they read to what they want to do with the information. They question the writer's assumptions and analyze information presented, all within the context of finding answers to "What can I do with this information?" and "What does understanding this mean to me?" This digest discusses some of the challenges in learning that students face, and identifies web resources that teachers can use to support student learning.

So this research was really interesting. I got excellent information about how to use the PBL method in the classroom and also how to asses this method. This method will be very useful for me, because with it I can help my future student to learn by themselves and get involved with updated information taken from different sources and promote the critical thinking of them.