ALFABETIZACIÓN....

From the begining of this program we all felt very excited with the idea of teaching people. The first assignment that was given to all of us, was to look fot 2 people that would like to study all Saturdays. For this, we went to the streets to ask all the people if they would like to study, it was very difficult because most of the people didn’t like the idea. When I finally found the 2 people we had to write as much information as we could about the people that we found. The first day of school we had 120 students and many kids. Unfortunately, it was rainning so many people got wet. We had to use all the umbrellas we had to take them to the classrooms. Once in the classrooms, the teachers welcomed them and the started to hand out the tests. The test helped us to know to which “modulo”they had to go. The ”modulos” we had are: Modulo 1, Modulo 2, Modulo 3, Modulo 4. This 4 “modulos” are just for people from 15 and up. All the children and babies were taken to diffrent places. From 6-15 were taken to “Nivelación” and the younger guys were taken to “Guarderia”. I had to go to “Nivelación”. The first day, we played a lot of games and the kids had a lot of fun, but the next days, we split up in groups and every teacher had to teach or help to do homework to a different group of children. The experience was nice and stressfull at the same time because there were children that liked to play and make a lot of noice, also, there were children that didn’t concentrate and didn’t learn or understand what we said. It was also stressfull because, some days, we had 40 students in the class and we had to teach to many children and control them and we got tired very fast, but also there were very peaceful days were we had just 15 hildren and we could play and relax. The experience was good and nice. In the middle of the school year, Lic. Campaña and his wife, deided to transfer us to other classrooms. I was transfered to Modulo 3. The first days, the students and us felt a little unconfortable because they were new students for us and we were new teachers for them. We met all the students and started to teach them. It was easier to work with this people because some of them understood faster and easily. At the begining I used to teach them English and later I tought them Spanish. Sometimes we felt very stressed because there were this two women that didn’t like to study, didn’t pay attention in class and didn’t have a good class participation. In the tests, everybody did them fast and had good grades because they studied, but Magola and Maria in the first tests took very long to do them and also, they did them because we helped them and when we decided not to help them, they didn’t even noticed that we had a test and they hadn’t studied, and what is more, they had terrible grades. We felt very dissapointed of them. They didn’t like to study. In the oter side, there was an excelent man that was the best student. His name was Benito and he was the only man that studied everyday and participated in class, had good grades in homeworks and tests.

As the time passed on we started to get tired so the last days, we just gave our class and then left to Guarderia t play with the children. For the lunchs that we had to give the students, we decided that Physics had to do the lunhs first, later Chemistry people did the lunchs and the next day Socials and everyday different paople had to do them. When we finished giving to all the students, we started to eat if the was any food left. Everyday before and after teahing, we had to go to a meeting with lic. Campaña and Estela. These meetings helped us to learn more and tell them what was missing or what we thought was wrong and they gave us a solution. Also they took the attendance and later we left.

This experience is unforgetable, because we experienced nice and awful things with the student and also with our friends. We learned how to control us when we were mad and stressed and we also learn to apreciate evrything we have because these people don’t have everything we have and they were happy to study and learn more. I liked a lot spending time teaching all the people. This experience at the end, bored a lot of us and we really wanted to go because we felt tired but i think that just by experiencing this, we noticed what it takes to be a teacher and how much we have to apreciate the time and the work teachers spend on us. Being a teacher is difficult, stressfull but also a nice experience because teachers don’t only teach; the can also learn.