KOI FISH

I did my poster according to the koi fish tale, I don’t know if you sometime have heard it before.  First of all, Koi are considered good fortune in business or academic life is also associated with perseverance with the adversity (fortress) and the persistence, on the other side is also considered a symbol of patience and longevity.

 Also the Chinese and Japanese legends refer to the strength and value of the koi. One of them is the legend has it that there was a Dragon Gate on the Yellow River and only the fish that could swim upstream the river and reach the door could become a dragon. The koi will swim valiantly to win glory.  It is said that the rise of the waterfall koi means "to be succeed in life." 

As you can see, the Koi beyond the earthly inspires strength, determination and triumph. Because of that I wanted to compare it with my life, since I have always had to fight against the obstacles  of the path as well as get up again and over again in order to make my dreams come true. This fish is all that I want to be, represents my wishes of arrive to the end and become what I want to be an excellent teacher. It is a source of inspiration, and although it is legend, is something that makes me think that if a fish could, one day I will be a dragon.

Besides, the dragons have been seen as friendly and helpful creatures. They have proved to remain a symbol of strength, good fortune, wisdom and longevity.  There is a special kind of dragon that I think is the perfect one for my metaphor and my representation as a future teacher, this is an EARTH DRAGON because it is a quieter and reflective Dragon.

 It will be appreciative of others' opinions even if it fails to agree with them, as a teacher that has to hear all the students’ opinion without make judgments. Also it is leader that demands respect and knows the value of cooperation, that is what I talk about, I want that my students see me as good leader that tends to orient them through of the team work where everyone can express ideas, feeling as well as inculcate in them  a critic thought.

 Comment about the movie: "Freedom Writters"

Through the movie, "Freedom writers," we had the opportunity to know a real educational experience through a group of students impossible to control and to educate; at first, they could not stand each other. But, over time, they begin to obtain a positively transforming, thanks to the help of their teacher, and they begin to form a family, where they start to find: peace, love and companionship that did not have at home.

Other important thing to take in account in the drama of the movie was about the learning. Because, they studied many kind of literature.

These guys, at first, they only joined with other, for their lack of future, began to call themselves proudly Freedom Writters. Nowadays, this group of students gives us an example to many young people in thousands of schools that go through similar situations.

By: Diana Marcela Gallego.V.

MY METAPHOR:  "THE PUZZLE OF LIFE"
Written By: Diana Marcela Gallego Velásquez

This is my poster, I did the poster in this way, because I think people build their lives step by step as a puzzle. Therefore, my poster is a puzzle..... "The Puzzle of Life".

The poster is divided in three parts. The first part explain, how I can show me as a teacher in the future, but I am a teacher many years ago, then I will show you some pictures, about my experience in many schools that I worked.

In the first image you can see my  my first students, this was my first experience as a teacher. Every photo is important to me, because with every group of students, I could learn significatives things to apply in my work and my own life.

 In the second part, I explain my recent academic life, because I am preparing to teach in other contexts, and I'm learning and acquiring new skills in order to put in practice my new knowledge in the future.

In this process I had to face many problems, but thank God I'm here. Trying to follow this beautiful way, that allows me to continue teaching.

Finally, In the third part of my poster, I want to show that through my learning process, and the construction of a new profile as an educator, I can get more and better things to convey to my students. For this reason I put this celebre phrase: "He who dares to Teach, must never cease to learn".

THE PYRAMID

First of all I wanted to show my learning and my teaching with people working, because it reflects a process that is done with effort, the stones represent the need to reach knowledge and the process of building a whole, each block is a phase must live to reach a goal, for that reason you can see categorizations from the base to the top.

The pyramid stays in a natural environment, because I would wish to teach in many places not just in a classroom, in my metaphor the pyramid is located in the center of the town since it is as a point of reference, for that reason I would like to be a point to reference to ask for orientation or help depending on the case.

I decided to do the metaphor with the pyramid, because I wanted to represent my teaching with something solid, with strong bases in order to transcendent beyond the time.

By: Fernando López Niño.