Rebecca Palacios
Logroño, (EFE).- Students must be the protagonists of their learning and the teacher must guide them with different tools and adapt to the way each student learns, psychopedagogue Ana Reynoso told EFE.
This professor of the Degree in Pedagogy and the Master’s Degree in Psychopedagogy at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR) has defended that teachers cannot teach all their students in the same way, nor use the same methodologies, because “each student is different”.
Reynoso has detailed that the theory of multiple intelligences of the American psychologist Howard Gardner proposes eight different types, compared to the paradigm of a single intelligence.
In this sense, he has cited that they are: linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, intrapersonal, interpersonal and naturalistic intelligence.
“Each of us excels in some intelligence, but it is important to remember that not all students learn in the same way. Everyone has their rhythm and their learning style”, she has confirmed.
For this reason, he has defended that each teacher must adapt to the way their students learn, which can be active, reflective, theoretical or pragmatic, and from there “guide” learning so that students “do not get bored in class and They like to keep up with the rhythm.
don’t compare
With this diversity in the classroom, this pedagogue has considered “very important not to compare” students with each other, “just as a mother should not compare siblings”.
He has explained that the external voice of the teacher can become an “internal” voice for the student, so that the student can develop a “self-fulfilling prophecy” and “believe that they cannot do something”.
For this reason, he maintains that the teacher must use different methodologies with each student to help them “learn to learn”, because each one is “different”.
In this sense, it has rejected “master classes” and has proposed the use of other tools, such as Kahoot, a platform similar to a video game that allows evaluation questionnaires to be carried out, through initiatives such as contests with which the teacher can evaluate or reinforce The learning.
Need for a state pact
Reynoso has advocated reaching a State pact on education, which avoids changing educational laws every four or five years, because “there is not enough time to evaluate the regulations after they have been implemented.”
This pact should be carried out “by specialists in education, apart from politicians”, he stressed.
In addition to all the “bureaucracy” that teachers must complete, students are increasingly “more unmotivated, they don’t want to learn, investigate and excel, because there is no culture of effort.”
“Just as children do not arrive with an instruction book for their parents, teachers do not have a magic wand to attend to their students: you have to put enthusiasm, desire and have a vocation, so that the profession you like, fills you and excites you “, has declared.
In this way, he indicated, the teacher can “engage his students and get them motivated” and, as a trick, he has proposed the use of humor “to surprise” the students.
In his opinion, “the subject is made by the teacher”, so that the interest that a certain subject arouses in the classroom is mainly due to the work carried out by the teacher.
“The good teacher is one who cares about his students, helps them when they are down and motivates them. They will remember that one over the years, because, in education, not everything is teaching content ”, he concluded. EFE