How important are feelings at school?

After the practical class of the Wednesday 25th,we realized that emotions and feelings are very important in our life.

We live depending on our emotions. If we are happy, it is supossed that the day is going to be good, if we start the day with the left foot (an expression that we don´t really know if is correct or not in English), we are going to be like lost souls.

In school it happens the same. Depending on the type of teacher, students will have different feelings.

If we have had good and funny teachers, we are going to talk positive things about school. On the contrary, if we have had bad and severe teachers we are going to talk bad things, and we will try to avoid going to school.

If the experience between teachers and students has been positive, students will have obtained more personal autonomy.

The relationship between teachers and families, is very important for students' learning. The family is a great support for teachers. In this way, it will increase motivation and desire to learn from students

As our classmate Francisco said in the forus, there are lots of students profiles so we can talk about different emotions or feelings depending on the person.

School, and many of the subjects that are taught on it, are considered as boring things. The boredom is one of the most traditional feelings at school, in the past, and right now.

Children stay too much time at school.

At the same time, when we are at school we are in a multicultural situation. People that are from lots of places, with ideas and with habits that are not the same as the ones we have. Being in community is not easy. Children are cruel, they always make jokes and it is difficult to get along with everyone. Feelings such as sadness, embarrassment, loneliness are usual at school, and teachers have to fight to solve it.

In the activity we did last wednesday, one of the components of the group wrote that sentence:

I am completely sure that school has helped me to feel comfortable, to build up my personality, to understand what and who I am and to learn the environment values that everyone has to know.

That is really remarkable because it shows us that school is important.

We totally agree that the most negative feeling by students is exclusion.
We are not talking about exclusion in a friendly way, we talk about the exclusion that teachers usually do with some students that are different from the rest.
It can be good students, who are always on the top of the class, who finish their activities so fast and have good results or the bad ones, who don´t like studying or people who are nervous etc... In conclusion, people who are not the typical ones.

"Teachers used to punish these students who have a nervous personality, not letting them to explain their thinking and more important, if they had any question or doubt, so I was in this case. I was always alone, without any classmate around me and in first line on the class. When raised my hand, teachers used to ignore me, which had felt me really bad. Later, they realize that in spite of I was really nervous, I was a good student"

Here we have an example, wrote by a classmate of the Group 1 "The feelings" the other day.

When people feel bad, the rest of us have to encourage them to contiue fighting and to think positive things.
We think teachers have that necessity. The necessity of helping students to feel good on what they are doing and the necessity of being able to help all of them without exception.

References:

- Leite Méndez, A. E., Rivas Flores, J. I., Cortés González, P., & Nuñez, C. (2012). Voces para el diálogo: la participación del alumnado en un centro educativo.
- Valderrama, R. (2006). “Maestría en educación. Los sentimientos de los alumnos hacia la escuela”.  Recuperado de: www.profesaulosuna.com/.../LOS%20SENTIMIENTOS%20DE%20LOS%20ALUMN...



Thank you for your understanding.