I-WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR FEARS IN THE CLASSROOM? HOW HAVE YOU DEALT WITH THEM? WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED ABOUT YOURSELF AND ABOUT FEAR AS A RESULT?

Well, one of my fears in the classroom is that students hate me because sometimes you aren’t pleasant to many people and they can be unkind with you. Other is don’t know enough about a topic and when students ask me I don’t know what to say them.

-Well, when I am going to go to school to give a class I try to read and study about the topic that I am going to teach to avoid whatever problem if my students ask me and also I try to be polite with all of them to have a good relationship.

-Well, I have learned that all people affront different fears every day, but we have to be valiant and fight against these; in my case I have learned to trust in myself and believe that I can do wonderful things in my life.

II- Palmer writes, “Good teaching is an act of hospitality toward the young, and hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest”. IN WHAT SPECIFIC WAYS DO YOU THINK A TEACHER HAS TO BE HOSPITABLE TO STUDENTS? IN WHAT WAYS DO YOU TREAT THEM AS UNWELCOME GUESTS? HOW DO TEACHERS BENEFIT FROM PRACTICING HOSPITALITY TOWARD STUDENTS?

-For me one specific way that I think a teacher has to be hospitable to students, could be the way that we teach to students because as Palmer says good teaching is an act of hospitality in that way we help students through our knowledge to learn every day.

-My answer to the second question is because when someone is hospitable this could bring to him or her more benefits that help him or her in different ways, but sometimes unwelcome guests don’t help them to connect with their students and this create a cold environment between teachers and student.

-Well, as teachers we can get multiples benefits practicing hospitality towards students; for example they can feel comfortable learning with us in that way we can get good potential from them and that can help us to discover good skills in our students.

III-WRITE ABOUT A FEAR, NOT NECESSARILY RELATED TO TEACHING THAT ONCE CONTROLLED YOU, BUT NO LONGER DOES. WHAT CAUSED YOU TO CONFRONT THAT FEAR? WHAT HELPED YU GET LOOSE FROM IT? WHAT THE RESULTS? WHAT DID YOU LEARN?

-Since I was in basic school I only studied with girls, but when I went to high school I had to study with boys and that made me feel uncomfortable because I felt afraid of them, but then I had to work in groups with some of them

 and that made me feel more comfortable because my classmates were so kind with me and that helped me to know new people and discovered that boys can be good friends. Now I have many friends that are boys and they are as brothers for me sometimes I feel afraid of them but I have to trust in myself.

IV-Evelyn Fox Keller of Nobel Prize-Winner Barbara McClintock that her knowing came from “the highest form of love, love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference”. DOES THIS KIND OF LOVE HAVE A PLACE IN EDUCATION? IF NOT, WHY NOT? IF SO, HOW MIGHT IT BE THAUGTH? HOW MIGHT IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF WE COULD TEACH STUDENTS TO LOVE THE WORLD IN THIS WAY?

-For me the first question could be true because as teachers we need a since of love to teach and create an intimacy relation with our students that help us in the way to create a good environment for them.

-That could be though as a possible solution to avoid our fears and feel comfortable teaching. Loving difficulties and working together in education.

-That can help to our students to love what they are learning that could make the difference in the way to learn and love the education avoiding differences with other students. They could love the way that the teacher teach them and be more comprehensible with them.