Eight days.

Current Mood: Worried
Current Music: Starlight - Muse
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My current mood reveals my situation.

Technology

Current Mood: Satisfied
Current Music: What if I stay - Melanie C
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A few decades ago who had a television was considered rich by the others. Some people didn’t even imagine how would be possible to send an instantaneous message and receive the answer as well. Children used to play a lot more outside their homes with balls or strings to jump over and cell phones were utensils strictly of adults. Now, in the twentieth one century, these things seem to be trivial.

Much of what have been invented is thought to become people lives easier. Reducing time that information travels, connecting people from different countries in less than a second and providing a full integration of the world. These transformations have grown faster each year.

In this way, technology has helped society. One important example of the benefits originate from its advance is related to the availability of study materials on the internet. Probably the past generation of teachers, professors and also students didn’t have the facilities of finding international books besides the ones that used to be found in the library. At some locations was very difficult to be updated about the newest topics that were in fever in the most important universities. But these days it’s possible to be part of any discussion with just one click.

Furthermore buying things or services could not be more effortless. There are many websites offering everything you need and with good prices. It’s better to buy of websites than physical stores. The same thing has happened with the payment of bills. Waiting in lines was an irritating problem more common in the past.

Comparing and observing the changes that have been happening from the past decades to nowadays, we may notice that technology is so presented in our lives that the abstention of it would turn our lives into a chaos. We should also read technology as a word that expresses the progress of society in all kinds.

Qualities of a good teacher

Current Mood: Hungry
Current Music: Television?
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There are some qualities that should be inherent of a good school teacher. Three most important of them are: punctuality, assiduity and commitment to education.

The first one, punctuality, does not refer only to the action of being on time with the activities, but also reveals the importance and respect that the teacher attributes to their students. The students usually take more serious classes in which teachers are in almost all the cases on time, and if they are not there is a good explanation.

The reasons why assiduity is an important quality for teachers is similar to the punctuality. Teachers that are too much relaxed about missing classes tend to be devalued. For instance, if there is a assignment scheduled for a determined time and the teacher is not there on class, students start to feel capable of not doing it straight anymore. Responsibility related to the hard work is something built using as example people that are near and in a major frame of reference.

The third, last and maybe the most important quality is commitment to education. We could synthesize both punctuality and assiduity at the last one. Commitment to education involves the entire process of teaching. Besides what were discussed before, it also refers to the relationship between students and teachers. Good teachers dispose themselves in order to help their students. Generally they don’t complain if some student spends more time than other to understand a specific subject or issue. What really matters is efficiency of education that must be universal, offering possibilities of learning for all.

Finally, these characteristics are not so easy to find in every school teacher, but are what everyone should expect of a good teacher. Intuitively students judge their teachers taking into consideration these aspects, and it’s also common to observe them punctuating which teachers are the best based on these criteria. Therefore is fundamental to make a good impression on students.

Teachers

Current Mood: Hyper
Current Music: None
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If I could change one important thing about my country it would be the symbolic value that is given to the teacher’s profession. By symbolic value I must clarify that is the importance that teachers have in our society and how people seem to understand it. Differently from others professions, like lawyers or doctors, teachers do not carry status. Precisely, if someone intends to be a teacher in almost all the cases he or she suffers of prejudice.

Generally, this kind of prejudice has its origin connected to the poor salary that a teacher receives. In other words, if someone is clever enough he or she should not “lose” his or her ability in order to have a bad salary. It means that just bad students must lose their time teaching. This thought is contradictory because to produce skilled labor it is really important to build a good basis that is actually made on the basic education. Then it leads us to the conclusion that one of the major professions that we have is the teaching action. Future lawyers, doctors, engineers, scientists etc. all of them to became what they are had to pass from basic education to a higher.

For instance, in my country politicians tend to have exorbitant salaries without doing any efforts. Even more revolting is that they can also increase their own salaries for irrelevant reasons when nobody else can. So, it’s clearly that the situation is not fair to all workers, in our special case, for the teachers. Unfortunately that is what happens. They work too hard for being bad recognized.

So, my hope is that someday this predicament will change giving more respect in all the ways for our teachers. This change is fundamentally important. The time pass and the needed for new educators increase, but the will of most of the people do not follow this growth.

Gêneros

Current Mood: Grumpy
Current Music: Sweet Lorraine - Nat King Cole
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A música está praticamente em toda parte. Porém, não todo gênero musical. Existem gêneros musicais que fazem mais sucesso e consequentemente se tornam mais populares do que outros. Como explicar essa desvantagem de alcance ao grande público? Como fica aquela minoria que aprecia um estilo musical menos privilegiado pela mídia?

É impossível não enxergar que a "música" popularizada recebe mais atenção das produtoras de shows. Numa sociedade em que o dinheiro move até as montanhas, a música de qualidade dificilmente se destaca no meio de tantas porcarias, ou melhor, lixos comerciais. Podem me chamar de preconceituosa se quiserem, mas deprecio músicas com letras estúpidas. Geralmente são duas ou três palavras que se repetem exaustivamente durante 4 minutos. Então, como esse tipo de baboseira cai na boca do povo... é comum promoverem eventos em massa de tais gêneros musicais. Explicitando meu desgosto por sertanejo, axé, brega, funk e afins. Faça-me o favor.

E a minoria? Não tem muita voz. Embora eu devo admitir que alguma boa alma infiltrada nessa rede de negócios tem bom gosto para promover uns (poucos) shows diferenciados. Reportando especificamente eventos na cidade de Belém, ano passado tivemos Toquinho e MPB4 e Ney Matogrosso. Mas, sabe o que é extremamente curioso... Esses nomes da MPB permanecem vivos na música por muito mais tempo que qualquer "bandinha" ou "dupla" meia-boca cujo sucesso é passageiro.

Enfim, eu só queria John Pizzarelli em Belém. :)

Carga de pensamentos

Current Mood: Indescribable
Current Music: In a little while - U2 @ Rose Bowl Stadium
Icon credit: LJ/untasted

Recebi uma carga de informação nos últimos dias. Aconteceu muita coisa em pouco tempo, tanto que fiquei atordoada. Leva-se um tempo para processar tudo de maneira organizada. Um dos meios de refletir sobre tais eventos é escrever, portanto, retorno a postar no blog. Como comentei nos últimos posts, não há nada de "criativo" falar sobre experiências do dia-a-dia. Entretanto, a necessidade não exige argumentos para justificá-la. Não para mim.

Uma das novidades nem um pouco atrativas foi descobrir que terei aula nas duas semanas que antecedem o carnaval. A consequência disso é que não poderei dançar frevo pelas ruas de Olinda/Recife. Ótimo, não? Mas, como dizem: "precisamos avaliar nossas prioridades". Ano que vem (se tudo der certo) não terei mais impedimentos. De qualquer maneira, isso é algo que ainda posso relevar...

Para balancear o ponto negativo exposto anteriormente... Aprendi a fazer sushi! Pois é, não sou uma expert, mas ficou muito saboreável. rs

Cut off

Current Mood: Restless
Current Music: I Am the Walrus - Bono
Icon credit: LJ/untasted

Vontade de simplificar minha vida... :)