Rough draft of the final essay

Outline:


1. What is the book about?
 Brief summary
 Personal understanding about Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing

2. How can we take this understanding into the classroom in order to help our students’ learning?

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The idea of this essay is how we can relate what Chapter 1 of the book “Ways of Seeing” by John Berger, says with our Pedagogical practice inside the schools. For the ones that have not read this chapter I am going to write a brief summary and then I am going to relate the chapter with our pedagogical practice.

The main idea in this chapter is that the way we see is affected by what we know or what we believe, because we have our own perceptions of things, we have our own point of view of everything and it is created through our lives experiences. As we are different persons, no one has had the same experiences that you, because we are independent persons with different thought and ideas.

In simpler words, when we look at a photograph we are looking at the “photographer’s way of seeing”. But the perception or appreciation of that image, photograph or painting, depends also on our own experiences and feelings.

Another important thing that the chapter talks about is that “seeing comes before words”, which means that we have to see and explain what we have seen in our words. For example, a child sees before she is able to speak and when she does, she speaks what she has seen or what she is seeing in the world, but what she says in her own perception of things.

After have an idea of what the chapter says, we can infer that what the chapter is trying to explain is as we all have different perceptions and beliefs we learn in different ways, I mean we have different strategies and styles in order to learn something.

Some teachers teach in one way using just one method, because they think that all the students learn in the same way; however they do not realized that all the students learn differently. They have different methods, to some students is easier to learn by seeing, other by listening, writing or using many other methods that we create according to our personality and learning styles.

We as teachers have the necessity to be aware of our students’ needs, in order to develop their skills in a better way and improve their knowledge. Doing this we are not just helping them in improve their learning in our subject, but we are helping them in other subjects too, because they figure out which are their learning methods, so once they are aware of that,