TheNetworkedTeacher

In my view, the three forms of education are equally valid and, what is more, can complement one another.  One of the great things about the new education is that any form of practice can be valid in order to obtain knowledge. I identify myself in the three kinds of education: I received a traditional formation and I did a degree as part of my formal education. Then, aiming at learning languages, I enrolled in an academy for learning English, in a non-formal context. Finally, I spend a lot of hours in front of the computer doing MOOC and NOOC courses in order to learn about other themes and disciplines.  All in all, I consider that any form of education will be valid to achieve success in our development as professionals and people. 

I think I wanted to be a teacher all my life: since I was a child when somebody asked me about my future, I had very clear ideas about it. Only in the moment of going to university, I must do an important choice, if I prepare to be a teacher for your students or to join a degree in History, that was my passion, in order to become a Secondary Education teacher. I went for the second one and I must say that I don´t regret this. One of the good things about being a Secondary Education teacher is that you deal with students who have their own opinions, who know or are trying to know, what do they want to achieve in their lives. I like to work with them and, even when the relationship with all of them is not the same, at the end of the day I still being in contact with some of them. Another aspect of being a teacher is the change of heart experienced by this profession. Nowadays we feel the need of adopting the last technologies and that forces us to keep studying in order to contr...