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John Freddy Garcia

1) The author discusses their journey to becoming an English teacher, including initially majoring in English without fully considering what being a teacher entailed. 2) While currently in their practicum, the author finds teaching rewarding but also challenging, as teachers in Colombia face issues like low pay and large class sizes. 3) The author sees themselves as a teacher who cares about bringing engaging materials and activities to their students, and who pays attention to their students' learning processes and styles.

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COMPOSITION AS AN IN-SERVICE TEACHER In every time in our lives arrives a moment where we have to decide what to do in the future as adults, what we want to be as professionals and we have to decide what career is appealing to us. From that, taking the first step to choose what I wanted to be was not so difficult. I already had a background from English and I had the passion for it. However, I realized that if I were proficient in English I should choose a career linked to the language and finally I decided that Major in English was the right option for my future academic life. What I didn´t do was to reflect about whether I actually wanted to be an English teacher or not, if I would enjoy being a teacher, the challenges I had to face, what I had to teach, how to manage a classroom, to realize what could be my actual role being a teacher, what kind of learners I could find or I would like to have. Surely, these previous questions would help me to figure out if actually I had the famous vocation.
Currently, I´m in seventh semester and I am doing my second practicum, I already have experience in other institution and I am working as an English teacher in a local project. Although I have a previous experience, I sometimes wonder why I am involved in this. I am conscious what kind of career is this one and I appreciate it so much. I know I am in the last period of my career and I find that being a teacher is an authentic challenge for all the life. However, I am sure I want to be a teacher because I can change lives through the use of other language where people feel motivated expressing themselves about their everyday life, improving their English background or learning more about target language. For instance, one of the greatest moments into the classroom is when learners realize how important, useful and entertained English language can be, when students are able to greet you in English, when they are able to ask you something using the English language and when they can apply their learning strategies to get a meaningful understanding in and out the classroom. Something I love to do is when the topic is very attractive to learners because it lets more interaction, participation, contributions, reflections and questions about what we are covering.
In the other hand, everything in education isn´t how we want it works. First at all, the recognition and the respect to the teachers in the society have felt down. The salary paid to teachers in Colombia is not the best, taking into account the great role of the teachers in human beings. In addition, the politics which cover teaching in Colombia aren´t appropriated and contextualized, for those reasons, we as teachers have to face a lot of problems into the classroom including goals by the government which are very difficult to get by students according to the Ministry of Education, the quantity of students per classroom in public institutions is other challenge for us as teachers. Their context, their needs are very different in comparison with what government wants to. Moreover, into the classroom we aren´t only teachers, we are sharing a single space with other worldviews, perspectives, needs, likes, thoughts. All this context force us to take not only a single role, but other roles as parents, advisers, partners, psychologist, listener and all of those roles involved into the social life because of we are sharing knowledge and personal experiences when we teach.
Finally, I see myself in my practicum as a teacher who care about what I´m going to teach in the next class, as I´m working with children, I always try to bring appealing materials and activities that they actually enjoy and learn through the practice, also I´m all ears in their process, how they are learning, what they are learning, how they are catching the information and how they are using the language. For example, I have noticed they are very visual and auditory; they get the information easily through images and songs. However I´m conscious I must to encourage other learning styles. Something to emphasize is their behavior into the classroom, when I arrive they get excited. To be honest, they are the students a teacher wishes to have, they love English, they practice it, they have the motivation to it and learn easily. One aspect to improve in my teaching practice could be the dependency of the ICT use. Fortunately, the high school has the technologic tools to implement in the classroom, but I have to explore other alternatives to teach without depend of these tools. As you have noticed, being a teacher requires a deep vocation and motivation to work with other people; and although there are a lot of obstacles, after you see the positive results surely you will figure out your job worth.

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  • 1. COMPOSITION AS AN IN-SERVICE TEACHER In every time in our lives arrives a moment where we have to decide what to do in the future as adults, what we want to be as professionals and we have to decide what career is appealing to us. From that, taking the first step to choose what I wanted to be was not so difficult. I already had a background from English and I had the passion for it. However, I realized that if I were proficient in English I should choose a career linked to the language and finally I decided that Major in English was the right option for my future academic life. What I didn´t do was to reflect about whether I actually wanted to be an English teacher or not, if I would enjoy being a teacher, the challenges I had to face, what I had to teach, how to manage a classroom, to realize what could be my actual role being a teacher, what kind of learners I could find or I would like to have. Surely, these previous questions would help me to figure out if actually I had the famous vocation.
  • 2. Currently, I´m in seventh semester and I am doing my second practicum, I already have experience in other institution and I am working as an English teacher in a local project. Although I have a previous experience, I sometimes wonder why I am involved in this. I am conscious what kind of career is this one and I appreciate it so much. I know I am in the last period of my career and I find that being a teacher is an authentic challenge for all the life. However, I am sure I want to be a teacher because I can change lives through the use of other language where people feel motivated expressing themselves about their everyday life, improving their English background or learning more about target language. For instance, one of the greatest moments into the classroom is when learners realize how important, useful and entertained English language can be, when students are able to greet you in English, when they are able to ask you something using the English language and when they can apply their learning strategies to get a meaningful understanding in and out the classroom. Something I love to do is when the topic is very attractive to learners because it lets more interaction, participation, contributions, reflections and questions about what we are covering.
  • 3. In the other hand, everything in education isn´t how we want it works. First at all, the recognition and the respect to the teachers in the society have felt down. The salary paid to teachers in Colombia is not the best, taking into account the great role of the teachers in human beings. In addition, the politics which cover teaching in Colombia aren´t appropriated and contextualized, for those reasons, we as teachers have to face a lot of problems into the classroom including goals by the government which are very difficult to get by students according to the Ministry of Education, the quantity of students per classroom in public institutions is other challenge for us as teachers. Their context, their needs are very different in comparison with what government wants to. Moreover, into the classroom we aren´t only teachers, we are sharing a single space with other worldviews, perspectives, needs, likes, thoughts. All this context force us to take not only a single role, but other roles as parents, advisers, partners, psychologist, listener and all of those roles involved into the social life because of we are sharing knowledge and personal experiences when we teach.
  • 4. Finally, I see myself in my practicum as a teacher who care about what I´m going to teach in the next class, as I´m working with children, I always try to bring appealing materials and activities that they actually enjoy and learn through the practice, also I´m all ears in their process, how they are learning, what they are learning, how they are catching the information and how they are using the language. For example, I have noticed they are very visual and auditory; they get the information easily through images and songs. However I´m conscious I must to encourage other learning styles. Something to emphasize is their behavior into the classroom, when I arrive they get excited. To be honest, they are the students a teacher wishes to have, they love English, they practice it, they have the motivation to it and learn easily. One aspect to improve in my teaching practice could be the dependency of the ICT use. Fortunately, the high school has the technologic tools to implement in the classroom, but I have to explore other alternatives to teach without depend of these tools. As you have noticed, being a teacher requires a deep vocation and motivation to work with other people; and although there are a lot of obstacles, after you see the positive results surely you will figure out your job worth.