Thursday, July 26, 2012

Proactive teachers Transformers


Universities in the scenarios unfold in this changing dynamic in which the various disciplines that lead to the formation of professionals that the country needs, need to be trained, formed according to the challenges that this requires to ensure effectiveness , development, performance, productivity, achievement. However, many national universities, in the Venezuelan case that concerns us, which shows a significant lack of teachers, teachers proactive, able to face challenges and make way for a new paradigm of education according to needs this claim. Why should it? Of course, a vice that has swept the universities, such as no generation of teachers to plan relief and to hire more professionals on the basis of friendship, political commitment, family, regardless of the support of academic excellence, educational, experiences, skills of the teacher that this need. Added to this is also where a significant number of teachers are not updated, repeat the knowledge they have been providing for years, making no effort to adapt to the advancement of the disciplines that require new knowledge. Of course, excite other factors that have been instrumental in the recruitment of university teachers, like the mafia, power groups clearly identified in the authorities that many universities have dominated preventing the entry of professionals with rigged contest, where you know who will join, who will be selected to discriminate many times more qualified than other they recruit, particularly to ensure the perpetuity and continue to operate according to their interests.

Are recruited, selected by professionals with no experience without academic endorsement, simply based on the commitments made, but which guarantees handling, in order to continue driving to college, regardless of the deterioration of education and research, a fact that still occurs in some public universities in the country. To this is added, the absence motivational respect to wages, salaries offered to teachers, respect, that the country has left a lot to say and where there is a state responsibility and the same pro guilds to pay and claim, fair wages, adequate to the economic characteristics of the moment, something that governments have run at will. Today teachers are required proactive, dynamic, capable of generating the necessary changes for the new generation of professionals, whatever their discipline avoquen in solving the serious problems facing the country and need to have to drive along the path that globalization, ensuring its people's quality of life they are entitled. The late Indian teacher Krishnamurti and referred to the importance of being a proactive teacher when he said that throughout the world is becoming increasingly clear that educators need to educate him, it takes a visionary educator, dynamic.

Not a question of educating the student, but rather the educator, he needs much more than the student. The student, after all, is like a tender plant that need guidance, help, but if you are unable assists, narrow, bigoted, nationalist and other things, it is natural that their product is what it is . It seems, therefore, it is not so much the technique of what has to teach, which is secondary, which is of paramount importance is the intelligence of the educator himself. It is well known that throughout the world, education has failed because it has produced the two colossal and destructive wars in history, and since it has failed, merely replacing one system with another seems utterly useless. If there is, however, a possibility to change the thinking, feeling, the attitude of the teacher, maybe then can a new culture, a new civilization It's time to usher in a new role of the educator, to be more creative, innovative, able to motivate participants to contribute new ideas, another way to tackle the problems they faced in accordance with their training, can not remain a teacher transmits knowledge that is not adapted to reality, as a teacher provides information only when the whole world groans in his ears, is certainly not an educator.

The Venezuela of this requires new teachers college, more committed to the requirements that their reality requires more, when the current government is launching a contaminated Socialism many contradictions, which will have many difficulties in an era where neo-liberalism, capitalism is the predominates and where the country with different actors, was not prepared for it, where there is a large gap in political culture paramount, and an absence of political opposition that leaves a lot to say. It requires teachers who can make use of research that may lead to tackle the serious problems facing the country, give their opinions and take action programs that promote educational excellence in a range capable of collaborating with the weak programs that often national government presents. Definitely, you need dynamic teachers, educational leaders who possess the ability of their students modeling, creative and intellectual, innovative, research, participatory, fully identified with the needs of your environment and also know to motivate, inspire students to search of truth, provide the knowledge, tools, which give way to the necessary changes that the country wants. I expected that the new university authorities that many national public universities choose this year.

give way to a leadership that knows how to make good use of educational management, availing themselves of qualified teachers, and consider as has been stated that education is the ideal way to encourage the man to amend its behavior and its attitude, and make them commensurate with their role in a complex society, in addition, education is the best tool to develop in this man the reflective and critical thinking, applied to the national reality. It's time to give way to the need to reform and revitalize education that demands a human resource that meets these needs, ie teachers, who have skills, attitudes and skills-oriented participatory activities and implementation of innovative strategies to allow greater community participation and and how to make efficient use of research.

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