By Maria dela Lama
Dear readers
What are those factors that
seem to haunt teachers’ development?
Sometimes very talented
teachers are not able to thoroughly develop all their professional potential.
Although they have the required knowledge, preparation and experience,
something holds them back: their fears.
Fears are dangerous feelings that impede teachers´ development. How to overcome them? A first good step is to be aware of them. Here
is a list of some of the most common teachers’ fears: the fear of programming, of
setting goals and be able to stick to them; the fear of incorporating technology
to their daily teaching practice; the fear of evaluating and being evaluated
and finally the fear of assuming new challenges.
In our next post, we will
be dealing with each of them. Please, do share the post with your colleagues.
Nowadays, empowered and brave language teachers is what is needed the most.
BIODATA:
DE LA LAMA, MARIA, Bachelor in Education, has a
master's degree in Applied Linguistics and a Bachelor's in Linguistics, both
obtained at the University of California, Davis. She also holds an MBA from
Universidad del Pacífico. She currently serves as the Director of the Language
Center at Universidad del Pacífico.
