Final reflections

I think that nowadays the teaching task is somehow a little bit discredited. It is said that getting the CAP certificate is a really silly and easy procedure we have to pass in order to become teachers. Does it mean that everybody can work successfully as a teacher without any problem, only by getting the CAP? I do not think so. As teachers, we have now to assume an important role. Being a part of the knowledge scaffolding process is such an important thing that deserves to be one of the main focuses of attention of our society. Assuming the importance of this role is essential to develop our task properly. Maybe I am wrong, but I think the teaching practice needs to be done by vocation. You can be waitress despite you hate it, you can be a bus driver despite you do not like driving, but from my humble opinion, you could never be a teacher if you did not feel a strong sense of vocation about it. I do not want to play the CAP training down with it. What I want to say is that, on the one hand, teachers should receive exhaustive preparation in order to work as teachers. I wonder if the new master will solve that problem. On the other hand, the vocational sense should be an indispensable requirement to be teacher. Maybe it could be solved as well with the new master, because paying more in order to et the certificate may make people think it twice, by analyzing whether if they are motivated enough to do it or not.
However, despite it is said that the CAP course does not prepare trainee teachers properly that was absolutely not the same in our case. We have been working a lot through the theoretical classes, we have been writing our main reflections in our weblog through the entire training stage, and we have lived a complete teaching experience. I was wondering at first whether if doing the English CAP or not, as I am studying Journalism and everybody told me to do the social one. But now once we have finished, I am very pleased with my choice. I have learnt lots of new things, and I have had the opportunity to implement these new things in my classes. Along these lines, I have to thank my coach for her help, as well as I have to thank also the CAP teacher for making this experience so profitable. I was lucky also with my class; I had really nice, motivated and participative students.
I was also helping a teacher, Marta Ponti, with her study of the CAP certificate, by sending her a detailed report of all the activities I was doing in my classes. I have to admit that it helped me a lot when teaching and also when writing this final report, because it gave me the chance to analyze my teaching practice day by day, trying to work harder on my weak points.