Promoting Overall Health

EME2040 was invited to attend a discussion given at the Miami Dade College North campus on the importance of promoting global education. Professor McNair and Dr. Kenny broke down the urgent necessities on teaching literacy through out the world especially to woman and the high number of orphans left by AIDS.

There have been many attempts by different organizations to reduce illiteracy; UNESCO began a Global Education Initiative in 1990 where 155 countries gathered to conclude of the urgency it exists to teach how to read and write to all of the world’s citizens. Unfortunately, due to differences in cultures, women are less educated than man. They do not even get the chance to attend early education. If women had the chance to be educated even if its only learning how to read and write, they would increase there chances of survival and independency even if there duties have already been arranged by their culture; because what happens when their husband leaves them or dies? What happens to their children whose only resource is their mother’s knowledge? This is high stake matter for women to be educated is best describe by one of the professor’s McNair’s quotes, “If you educate the womb, you educate the Nation.”

AIDS was declared to be an epidemic in 1984 after the first spread in Africa, which became an epidemic in Zaire, Burundi, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania and Kenya. The AIDS virus is believed to have started from African primates and monkeys; I personally believe that it was a man made virus to be spread out through out the world as per Kissinger’s number 200 policy for the sole purpose of reducing the world’s population just like the H1N1 virus is.

If we all become aware of the grand necessity needed to promote literacy and act upon the matter by volunteering, becoming a tutor or an activist; united we can eliminate the problem but usually we are lazy and if this matter is not affecting us personally, we tend to disregard it completely. If we promote literacy we can also expand the education on how to protect from any virus through pamphlets, billboards, etc.. At the same time we must be fully conscious of our surroundings and understand that we are part of a chain, therefore anything that happens to any distant neighbor eventually will come back to affect us.

My Class Experience

By attending 2009’s fall semester at MDC, and taking a course in Introduction to Technological Education; I have learned the importance of understanding the purpose of becoming a teacher. I have learned, to listen to what my insight is responding to a class discussion on types of philosophy of education, I objectively analyzed perennialism, essentialism, progressive education, existentialism, social reconstruction and pragmatism/experimentalism and came to the conclusion that regardless of the educator’s philosophy on the method of teaching, it lays the importance sense of the educator to be aware of the current state we live on. Human beings, are in an oppressed society where they do not use their inner wisdom, only using primal senses. We have not tapped into our inner wisdom to its maxed. Therefore, for an individual to become a teacher, a guide into the innate, a sense of a higher responsibility should take into place. That is to be as awake as much as a being can be. Applying critical thinking to every action educators take at all times, not only inside of a classroom, but outside of the classroom As educators we need to tap into our wisdom and allow the flow of white light and radiate its light at all time. If a teaching profession is chosen, the individual shall understand fully the magnificent energy it holds. This energy has endless possibility to turn into a sour lemon or a sweet melon. We hold the keys to another being’s creation. It is important to be awake in the world we live on and begin to awake everyone else. One way I propose is to hold seminar using the transpersonal lesson plan and promote it through out the community so everybody can be involved in society’s molding. I have also learned about behaviorist lesson plan that is more of direct teaching and no collaborative learning; I have also learned about constructivist lesson plan where its integrated with collaborative learning, inquiry-based learning and is more student oriented, which I like very much.

Extra Credit - National Hispanic Heritage Month

I was born in Medellin, Colombia and left my country at 10 years old. My father came to the United States before my mother and I came; the reason for this new future was because of a horse. The horse’s name was Plebeyo; he was a white stallion full of brio and elegance. My father was his trainer in Colombia when the owner decided to conquer North America with the Paso Fino breed; taking us back to when I was two years old. It was our first trip across the Atlantic. We moved back shortly after I turned three years old because my mother was not happy, so we went back to Colombia to later come back to the states when I was 8 years old. He came to set a foundation for the family, then soon after I turned 10, my mother and I moved back to our new home, United State of America. Forming a new life in a new country was difficult, there were a lot of things that I had to adjust to; learning a new language, mix cultures, the roads, e.g. highways, the eclectic foods, and the amount of police patrolling the streets. But just like anything else that is part of nature, I adapted. I integrated my being to this new living and embraced its adjustments. I love how I became part of a new world, how I enveloped into the collage that forms the United States. I love waking up and reading the newspapers, always encouraging the Latin community to embrace their heritage. We are all now, Americans. Coming to the National Hispanic Heritage Month celebration this year at the Miami Dade North Campus, took me back or should I better say, it embraced what my background has brought into this new world we are residing today; United States of America. If it wasn’t for the spoken word uplifting our spirit to another realm, or the Mariachis that Professor McNair invited to proclaim what most of us Latinos grew up listening to, coming from our great grandparents, grandparents, parents, uncles, aunts, cousins and friends singing their heart out to, or the Flamenco dancers taking us back to our true heritage, Spain. Reminding us how much passion, dedication and identity we have evolved from, or the salsa dancers from the New World School of Miami or Kiki Sanchez Latin jazz we would not be who this country has become to be. Thank you! America for allowing us to be all one.