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Which training courses would you like to have access to as a teacher? Why?

As the world advances, pedagogy is becoming more innovative. All the changes we have experienced

over the years are extrapolated to education. Therefore, teachers need to be updated.

Knowledge is constantly growing up, so we it is modified and more complex. On present, teaching demands that teachers are capable to adapt at themselves because teaching is not only about concepts. Teaching is about people, culture, concepts, skills, thinking, values, etc.

Teachers must be qualified in their subject but they also have to be proficient in different aspects related with education as new technologies, values, languages, pedagogic techniques...

Personally, I would take courses about the topics that I’m going to explain:

• Firstly, I would like take courses about didactics. I think that knowing how to teach is essential to work as a teacher. For instance, you can’t transmit the content as you studied it in college: you must carry out a didactic transposition. It is also interesting to learn strategies to plan the content, the activities, etc.

• I also think that it is very important to know different languages because maybe you are going to use them to teach. For this reason, you have to be able to speak but it is important to study the specific vocabulary to teach your subject.

• In thirst place, nowadays there isn’t doubt that ITC are more and more used in teaching. Therefore, I think that is very important to take courses about using ITC, about tools and resources and about safety in Internet. 

Which is, in your opinion, the best way to share good practice amongst teaching professionals? Why?

I personally think that nowadays is very easy to share information. In one hand, we can use traditional ways as conferences, professional meetings, department meetings... to learn new strategies and to explain our own experiences. In the other hand, we can draw on Internet. On the Internet, there are different ways to find out and to share lot of information: blogs, wikis, WebPages, online courses, etc. 

For that, I think that any teacher have to be prepared to give students the best of himself.