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 To
Be or
Not To
Be a
Teacher
January
23, 2010,
3:21 pm
By
Iris
Hernandez
Rodriguez
neysi@enet.cu
Translation:
Ernesto
Gutierrez
Pino
There
are
communities
where
the
teacher
is an
authority.
He is
consulted
for the
taking
of
decisions
and is a
paradigm
for
everybody.
This is
not a
utopia.
It is
achieved
by means
of a
good
behavior,
ethics
and
responsibility.
The loss
of
exemplary
behavior
and the
not very
attractive
place
where he
has to
work
constitute
some of
the
reasons
why this
career
doesn’t
motivate
the
future
professionals
and as
result
there is
lack of
teachers
in all
Cuba.
Up to
now the
Ministry
of
Education
has not
been
able to
cover
its
necessity
of
professionals
and the
figures
of young
people
in the
pedagogical
universities
will not
solve it
in a
short
term.
To
analyze
that
panorama
would be
necessary
to know
the
reasons
each
student
has to
request
a
career,
to
obtain
it and
then not
to
assume
it,
because
in some
of cases
they are
pressed
by the
family
so that
they
make
another
choice.
The
exact
sciences
are one
most
affected
specialties
by the
lack of
professionals
and to
make
matter
worse,
few
people
register
in them.
On the
contrary
those of
Foreign
Languages
are a
little
more
attractive
for many
students.
Furthermore,
the
national
tendency
is a
preference
to the
subject
of
Humanities
Once
in the
road
When the
students
arrive
at the
Pedagogical
University,
the
retention
in the
institution
not
always
behaves
as it is
expected.
The
number
of
graduates
is very
far away
from the
initial
quantity
registered
students
at the
beginning
of the
careers.
At
present
the
Pedagogic
University
of Las
Tunas
eastern
province
is
creating
a
website
to help
in the
professional
training
of the
students.
Each
faculty
also
selected
experienced
and
noted
professors
to offer
conferences
that
help the
vocation
for the
pedagogy.
All the
schools
count on
the book
entitled
What Am
I Going
to
Study?
Moreover,
the
scientific
researches
related
with
these
topics
are also
generalized
among
the
students.
All
these
actions
are
guided
to offer
a wide
knowledge
on the
different
careers,
sot that
the
pedagogy
doen't
continue
being
the
black
sheep in
the
students’
applications.
These
ideas
are not
enough,
mainly
because
the
Ministry
of
Education
cannot
carry
all the
responsibility.
The
family
and
community
help is
also
very
important.
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