Interview guide

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Objective: The interview is carried out in order to reach a reflection on the

teaching work, highlighting important topics that will allow us to understand the

purposes of education, the elements and the importance of didactics.

Interview characteristics

Semi-structured interview, flexible in nature and with open questions in a

friendly and educational manner, with an approximate duration of 2 hours between

the formulation, organization and application of the questions.

Link to the recording of the interview:

Description of the interviewee and the place where they work

Questions and answers given by the teacher

1. What do you understand by education and didactics and how do you

implement it in your teaching process?

 I see the education or training process as that level or process in which

people are trained, and in relation to didactics it would be the evaluation

that I would carry out to determine the effectiveness and relevance of that

training process, then, I apply education on a daily basis, forming good

people. Didactics is also applied on a daily basis where the process used in
 students is evaluated and thus determine the relevance and effectiveness

of the education that is being implemented. in the population served.

2. What do you think is the purpose of education and how do you apply it in

your daily life as a teacher?

 As I just mentioned, education is to train people, this would also be its

purpose, the purpose of education should be the training of people with

the necessary skills and abilities that allow them to be competently

working and autonomously emotional, in application, that is the

implementation of different strategies and methods that allow the student

to develop competencies and skills that will allow them to be competently

workable in the future, that is, to enter the labor market and, in addition

to that, have a fairly defined autonomy for the management and control of

your emotions since you are going to face multiple situations in which you

will require it.

3. What are the characteristics that you consider a teacher should have?

 Characteristics within my consideration, being flexible, adaptive,

investigative, innovative and above all very resourceful.

4. How has your experience been as a teacher?

 I consider it good, since it has brought with it many challenges and facing

challenges that one encounters on a daily basis allows one as a teacher to

learn much more.

5. How do you plan your class, make a protocol, scheme, implement methods

or strategies that respond to the students' learning rhythms and styles, or do you

use the same strategy for everyone?

  When preparing, only one is made for each grade where the three

moments are handled: exploration, development and evaluation, but the

adaptations that one considers necessary in the classroom are made;

Since we have students in a multigrade classroom, we encounter multiple

situations where the pace of learning and the way of learning varies too

much, so there are some activities that can be used with other grades and

if the student at his or her learning level can be linked to the process. ,

links are made or adaptations are made that are considered necessary and

relevant according to the context in which they are found.

6. What elements or strategies do you use to motivate students in your class?

Share some that you consider have been significant in the teaching processes and

that have allowed students to better acquire knowledge.

 Motivations, everything that has to do with rounds; There is an activity

called “I listen, I act, I reflect and I conclude” which is something similar

to round tables, treasure hunts, analogies, word searches, active pauses,

quick cards, the construction of sentences or stories. , and the

fundamental or most effective thing for you to motivate students is the

use of rounds and dynamics that respond to the topic that is going to be

taught.

7. Within your experience as a teacher, what has been the innovation that

allowed you to strengthen the training process of your students?

  In 2020, last year, I developed an innovation process or an application

called “Victorian readers”, which allowed students to strengthen a very

fundamental process in the development of learning, which is reading and

writing, so This application was the innovation that allowed me to

strengthen my students and the entire educational population, because we

linked the educational triad in which parents, students and teachers

participated to strengthen and enhance these abilities and skills in relation

to reading and writing. .

8. What is your relationship with your students like and why do you consider it

that way? Could you share a significant experience you have had?

 According to what is experienced on a daily basis, I consider that this

relationship is good, because being able to dialogue with the students with

confidence and, above all, with a lot of respect, allows me to consider that

this relationship is good; Students have good confidence that is closely

linked to respect and that allows good communication and the

development of good learning processes. Significant experiences, perhaps,

confidences or advice in the midst of those dialogues that we have had

with the students; There are some spaces in which they decide to tell you

confidences and give you some type of advice or suggestions according to

what they are asking for.

 Within the experiences, does it provide extra-class spaces or is it only

limited to time during classes? – Where I work we run a boarding school

and this allows us to have a much more extensive interaction with the
 students, so we are with them from the moment we get up until we go to

bed, we are in the communication process and it allows us to maintain this

relationship that I just mentioned.

9. Do you consider that didactics is important within the teaching and learning

processes?

 Yes, of course, didactics is important and should be mandatory in every

teaching and learning process since, as it is a process, it must be

evaluated and with that evaluation determine its effectiveness and

relevance in the group served and in the population or context. in which it

is located.

10. How do you develop pedagogical mediation within the classroom?

 The main thing is reading and deciphering the content to leave it in a

common language so that they understand and comprehend what we want

them to learn and little by little new words are introduced and thus they

expand their vocabulary, in addition to that The aim is for the activities to

be flexible and adapt to the context in which we find ourselves.

11. Taking into account the context in which you find yourself, what do you

consider to be the challenges when it comes to innovating in teaching processes?

 My context does not have connectivity, not even the radio can be heard

there, so that seemed like a challenge or a difficulty to be able to innovate

in relation to the use of ICTs, the electrical fluid is not as fluid as we would

say, so Many shorts are handled and now the school is having a fairly big

problem with that fluid, so again for the use of ICTs it becomes a bit

complex, and in addition to that the distance and the times of the
 students, since they are students who They spend an hour and a half or

two hours getting home, and in the afternoons when they get home after

leaving school, their time is limited to the support of their parents at

home, so in order to innovate, the population is also required to wants to

innovate and does not have the space to develop it.

12. What is your teaching methodology or what factors characterize it?

 The Montessori method called “the pioneer” is done or applied in a

moderate way, where the tasks are adapted to the abilities of each student

and the teacher, in my case, becomes more than a transmitter of

knowledge, a companion for that the student acquires and develops his

cognitive, physical and spiritual phases, on the other hand, we also have

gamification or gamification, which is the use of games or strategies that

respond to the topic that one is going to teach, for example, some rounds,

some activities recreational activities that attract and make teaching more

effective, and also since our context is rural and we have plenty of green

spaces, some forest school strategies are applied, where students learn

from their context.

13. What do you consider to have been the most important teaching challenge

throughout your experience? Because?

 We could also mention the application that was used, because this

application made it possible to evaluate the teaching and learning

processes in relation to reading and writing of the entire institution; We

were 17 locations, each with different numbers of students and different

 grades, but it allowed the teaching and learning process of reading and

writing to be evaluated, and to restructure it with contributions from the

entire educational triad, contributions from parents, students. , the

teachers and the rector of the institution himself.

14. What characteristics do you imagine a future teacher should have, taking into

account the challenges you have faced?

 According to my context and the experiences I have lived, I must say that

a teacher must have a lot of flexibility, he must have a lot of adaptability,

he must adapt to any type of context and any type of population, any type

of community, he must manage good leadership, Because one arrives as a

leader of that community to seek or form a joint combo, one must have

very good empathy, one must be innovative and, above all, one must have

excellent control of feelings and emotions.

15. What do you consider to be the relationship between school and life?

 The school is a part of the training that will allow the individual to face life.

Why is it considered a part? Because the other part is carried out or done

by the home, and the most important part ( because this process is

divided into three) would be the experience, then the reflection would be

that as they are future teachers, look for these three parts to work

together and with a single objective, which is to train good people.

 Leave us a reflection for future teachers. – Basically it is being very linked

to the fact that they are going to reach contexts where their support and

accompaniment will be of vital importance, so never stop learning, always

 look for spaces; The interesting thing about a teacher is that every day

they are learning, whether from a parent, from a student, from the

context or from a situation, but they will always be learning, so look for

every situation that occurs regardless of whether it is good or bad, rather

than evaluating it as good or bad, it is evaluating it as What did I learn

from it?

Reflection

How do you think the Didactics course can contribute to your training as a

teacher? And how can the conception of didactics as a scientific discipline of

education be an added value to your training as a teacher?

 I consider that the Didactics course is a determining factor in my training

process as a teacher since it allows me to understand how educational

innovation is developed within the teaching and learning processes and

provides me with many tools to recognize how to evaluate these processes

and what implement methods and strategies according to the needs,

capacities and abilities of the students, as well as look for the best

alternatives to overcome the academic difficulties that arise.

 These concepts and contributions allow me to reflect on the teaching that

some teachers carry out within the educational process, since sometimes it

is customary to work from the traditional model, perhaps because at some

point it was considered the best option or because there is no the

necessary knowledge to recognize what strategies to implement according

to what you want to teach and the context in which it is found, for this

reason I consider that this course is important in my training process since

it also allows me to understand that within the classes that are developed,

teaching strategies must be implemented that allow knowledge to be

transmitted in a better way and contribute to the transformation of

student learning through didactic research that allows determining which

are the best methods to achieve the proposed objectives, an example of

this is recognizing that evaluation is not synonymous with sanction, but

rather should be taken as a motivational and training factor that offers the

possibility of acquiring knowledge and strengthening learning.

 Regarding the added value that guides didactics as a scientific discipline of

education in my training process as a teacher, it is basically that it allows

me to understand the way in which educational research occurs, how

projects are proposed and techniques are proposed to contribute to the

bases of education, since this allows them to be developed in learning

plans for students. This added value is important since it allows students

to build their learning and contributes to the teacher developing better

professionally. In this way, from my training process, it can be understood

that didactics as a scientific discipline has allowed the educational models

that are applied to be more flexible and to generate dynamism in the

teaching and learning processes. And that they generate dynamism in the

teaching and learning processes, it is then that as a future teacher I

understand the importance of implementing various strategies so that the

learning that students acquire is meaningful and productive and that they

can apply them in their daily lives to contribute to the strengthening their

critical reflective and self-critical capacity, which allows them to develop

skills and abilities to actively function within society and to endure the

demands that arise.