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Universidad Austral de Chile.

Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades.


Pedagogía en Comunicación en Lengua Inglesa.
ILIN - 113 English Language III.
Teachers. Yesenia Soto and Carolina Fuentes.
Catalina Rivera.

Good values create a safe environment, which is a significant part of students’ learning

process

A lot of methods are used by teachers inside a classroom in order to improve the

learning process of students of different ages. Using storytelling techniques, doing dynamic

activities and changing regularly the activities are a few methodologies to make the learning

process more interesting and amusing for the learners. I want my classroom to be a place

where students can feel comfortable to flourish themselves in order to reach a proper learning

process. Creating a safe environment, promoting values as respect, empathy, kindness, and

teamwork is an alternative to achieve that aim. Those simple strategies can make a change in

a classroom. The benefit of this method is that it does not need to be adapted to the different

range of ages.

A teacher who is interested in their profession wants their students to properly learn

the content which is being taught. For this kind of teacher the environment in which their

students develop their activities is essential because even if it is something minimal, a change

must be begun from the start. For this reason, teacher’s attitudes should be taken into account

as a significant matter at the time of being in contact with learners. The use of values is

substantive in a classroom because students may see teachers as role models. Pupils learn the

knowledge that teachers give them, nevertheless they learn from the variety of attitudes that

are shown in a classroom as well. In consequence, what I will do is to show respect to my

colleagues and to my students as well because I want to be a good role model. The way a

teacher manages the classroom has an impact on the students’ learning process. Therefore,
for me it is important to have a good impact in my future students. I want to show through

my attitudes what I want they replicate to create a proper environment.

At this point, it is important to separate two concepts that can be confused in this

context: fear and respect. Some teachers think that the students feel respect for them because

they do not speak in the classroom, however, in some cases, students could feel afraid of the

teacher and their reactions. If a teacher uses fear as a strategy to teach and make the learners

be quiet during a class, they would not learn properly because with attitudes as those, they

would not feel confident in the classroom. Hence, it is important to promote respect among

those individuals. Thinking about students as human beings with feelings and emotions

could be a useful technique for me to do this in my future. I believe that it will help me to

make the pupils feel comfortable and not to make them feel stressed or afraid in the class

because for me it is important that my future students enjoy the time in the classroom. I think

that will make a change in the way they learn the subject.

Another influential value in a classroom is empathy. This is often described as the

ability to stand in the place of the other, thinking about questions such as: How would I feel

in that situation? How can it affect me? or Would I like to be treated like this? Those

questions give a concrete idea of what empathy means. This value can be shown when

teachers are conscious that their students have more than just one subject at school, university

or whenever is expressed a teacher-student relationship. Sometimes students have a lot of

tasks to do and the teacher only makes this load harder to fulfil. Empathy should be mutual,

because teachers’ workload is huge as well. Besides, a teacher is an individual likewise

students, not a full-time worker. Students may know that they have other obligations to cover

in their lives. Because sometimes, a teacher is seeing as a character that only gives

knowledge or contents to learn. An example of what was said before is when a teacher has to

correct a test and students press them to have the results as soon as possible without thinking
that a teacher has more tasks to do outside of their professional life. This value can also be

expressed when teachers are aware of the student’s needs and when they promote the weakest

areas of the student’s learning process in order to improve their abilities. One of my

aspirations for my future is being a teacher who knows that not every pupil is interested in

learning the content that is being taught. In this case, empathy can be expressed if I, in my

future as a teacher, use activities that can be attractive for those ones who are not into the

specific content trying to catch their attention in order to make them learn.

In addition to the values that were presented before, there is kindness, which is one of

the most important values inside the classroom and outside of it. To start thinking about this

value is significant to know that every person is different in several ways, however this is not

a reason to treat every person differently in an incorrect manner. As it was said before, every

person has different needs and in a classroom. When that idea is plain to see, teachers could

try to be kind to every student and they should try to confine themselves to the different

situations presented in their job. In my future, I will try to make up for the needs of my

students because I think it can promote a lot of areas in the scholar life of the students.

Kindness is highly important when there is a learner with different abilities. It is

important that teachers and students try to make that student or students feel comfortable, as

everyone should feel, they could make them feel part of the community created in a proper

classroom. They can try to make them feel comfortable because for everyone is important to

be a part of that community and work together to achieve goals. A person with different

abilities cannot be an obstacle to achieve that aim. Another aspiration I have is to make of

my classroom a place where every single student can feel comfortable, to achieve that it is

important for me to follow what was said before.

This value can also be used to motivate students to achieve big goals as Pliskin (2000)

said, a kind of speech can inspire a human being to reach what they want or need. It can be
helpful to encourage students to get aims they think they cannot do, through kindness

teachers can make a change in student’s lives, which leads to creating bonds between

teachers and students. I aim to practice that because I want to teach my students that they can

make their dreams come true. For me it is significant to be a teacher that encourage the

students to reach their goals even though they are not completely sure of what they want.

Teamwork. On the other hand, is a method that can be essential to create a safe

environment in a classroom. It can promote the confidence between the students, which is

pretty useful to improve students’ learning process. In this context, there are different ways

to use that method. One is to allow students to form groups with the classmates they have a

better relationship. The other one is when a teacher makes the groups. In the first case is

better for the learners in the sense that they work with people they feel confident, they may

not feel afraid of making mistakes and to speak about certain topics. In contrast, when occurs

the other alternative, students can feel shy at the time of speaking and have issues connecting

with the group. However, I would like to use that method to create a community within the

classroom. Sometimes it is not a useful idea to let the students in their comfort zone if there is

an opportunity for them to learn from their pairs, which is what teamwork does. I believe that

a lot of activities can be developed through this method and working in groups may make the

students feel more comfortable speaking English

Additionally, another benefit of teamwork is when teachers want to foster multiples

intelligences. Nowadays, it is indispensable for teachers to know about that concept if they

want to take advantage of the students’ learning. A helpful alternative to increase the other

intelligence that students have is to recognize the strongest intelligence of them and then mix

them in groups. With that method, they can learn from each other and they can make

stronger the other intelligence in which they are weaker. I believe that to create a suitable

environment for my students, then it is important to use teamwork as a method to strengthen


bonds among learners, which is better than make students work alone, in order to improve the

learning process.

In my personal experience I had a teacher of English in High School, who was always

worried about us, she helped and encouraged me to decide what major choose. She also was

my first example of the teacher I want to be in my future. Hence, I am worried of my future

students I want to make their learning process a good experience, not a hard load for them. I

believe that if I use all those values I would be capable of creating a safe environment in

which English Language would be something interesting and fun to learn.

In conclusion, there are a lot of methods to improve the learning process of students,

however, the results are not going to be always positive if those methods are applied to a

weak base. This means that a classroom environment should shape the base to apply every

method that a teacher thinks is going to get better results. A classroom with all the values

presented before should work as the base to have better results in the learning process of

students, which leads to developing a good communication between pairs and teacher and

students created by a safe environment. The use of those values can make a big change in a

classroom and in students’ life. Even though values can seem like something minimal.

Attitudes based on empathy, teamwork, kindness, and respect can form a strong base where

other strategies can be developed in order to reach a stronger community step by step within a

classroom. All those values have benefits on its own if those are used correctly. In such

manner, if all the values mentioned are used together in a classroom by teachers and students,

good results are going to happen. It can improve the learning process of students because

they are going to be learning in a place where the teacher is aware of the need of comfort to

the development of learners. In addition to that, they are going to be working as a

community. We as future teachers should be inspired to build in our future classrooms what

we think is better to take advantage of all the abilities of our future students. With all the
values presented we can improve their learning process. Likewise we can encourage our

students to dream and achieve what they want.


Reference list

Z. P. (2000). Kindness: Changing People's Lives for the Better(1st ed.). New York: Shaar Press.

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