The Emperor's Club movie. A reflective teacher.

On her lecture, Professor Luciana worked with the Theme: Becoming a reflective teacher.

There are many details about being a reflective teacher, about our professional development, limitations (teachers and students), the language teaching, lesson plannings, the resources, the whole process, and so on and so forth.

According to Paulo Freire, "A Educação é um olhar interior que sai de nós para o outro".

Watching the Emperor's Club movie we can clearly see that in everyone's life there's that one person who makes all the difference. Teacher must make a great effort in order to have eyes to look inside them and transfer this same look to the other. His students. But this effort is worth it. When you see you could positively influence at least one student with new ideas, concepts, ethics.

Being a teacher is not only a question of transmitting knowledge but forming people. Being a reflective teacher must be the central goal when deciding teaching because you can make your students grow effectively.

We can make a good comparison between this movie and the song presented: "Another brick in the wall". The teacher there is totally different from the one in the movie. He was not worried about his students and treated them as if they had the same shape, color, emotions, intelligence. Just 'bricks'. Both song and movie remind me about Howard Gardner and his studies on Multiple Intelligences. If we really want to have a good influence on our students we must treat them as unique. Different intelligences, different ways of learning, different ways of approaching them.

There is a Chinese proverb we worked with on this workshop, in which we can identify these ideas:

"Tell me and I"ll forget;

Show me and I may remember;

Involve me and I'll understand".