Second Reflection

This weekend session was very interesting and meaningful as the one before. However, I have to say that some topics really impacted and increased my personal and professional knowledge. Topics such as knowledge base, learning to teach, teacher´s identity, positioning, and agency, among others, drew my attention. First, because some of them were new for me and I realized that in the field of teacher education and development there is still too much to learn. Second, because some of those terms are closely related that sometimes were a little confusing for me. In this part, I really appreciate the teachers’ help and the way he explained us some concepts as much as possible, to make us understand them. 
Additionally, from the concepts we worked on, I found very interesting “positioning theory” and “agency”. It was very interesting to see the close relationship among these terms and how they shape and reshape every day what we are as a person and as teachers. I have never thought before about how people see me or how I position myself in regards to them. It was surprising realized that my thoughts, attitude, acts, and behavior make of me a different person in each stage of my life. Though it can sound rare, I have never put attention to this fact. Also, I would like to highlight the concept of “agency”. Although I have heard this word, and I remember I talked about it in a previous course in the master, it was just until this session that I understood it. I comprehended that it has to do not only with your way of acting but it is a matter of attitude. Agency is our capacity to think and act by ourselves and to make our own choices, that latter on will also define us.