Antonio Pérez, best secondary school teacher: "A father asked me to teach as God intended"

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Antonio Perez Moreno

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Villamartín, Cádiz, 1969. He has a

account , but he doesn't dance, a

channel and profiles on all social networks.

All for bringing his subject, Physics and Chemistry, to his students.

This teacher from the IES Sierra Luna de Los Barrios is among the 50 best in the world in the 2020 Global Teacher Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for Education.

And this year, he has been chosen the best in the country in the Abanca awards.

At the end of this month, he collects the award for best Secondary Education and Baccalaureate teacher at the Abanca awards.

What is your secret? The secret is that you like what you do: teach, be with the children and work.

I get recognized for things I do outside of school hours, like the videos I post on YouTube.

I apply it with my students in class, but I prepare it in my free time. He teaches Physics and Chemistry, a subject that does not enjoy a very good reputation among students. Yes.

Along with Mathematics, they are the two subjects that most students like the least.

They're tough. With subjects like this it's harder to connect with kids, but you talk to them in their language. Yes, I started my YouTube channel eight years ago.

It's about experiments that students do, not only in Physics and Chemistry, but also in Engineering, Biology...

They choose the material, look for the scientific explanation, record it, edit it and upload it to the channel.

That is already an injection of impressive motivation for them.

That's where you hook them. Do traditional methods no longer work in the classroom? It's just that they haven't worked for centuries, I'd say.

When I studied, the traditional methodology is what there was and, as there was respect for the teachers, you did not protest much.

But the students of the 21st century are used to moving on the networks, in video channels, they say what they think, what they like and what they don't.

The traditional methodology no longer applies to them.

Would you like an 18th century surgeon to operate on you?

It is what we are doing in education.

The methodology that is taught, in a very high percentage, is the master class, where the

They look for the scientific explanation, record it, edit it and upload it to the channel.

That is already an injection of impressive motivation for them.

That's where you hook them. Do traditional methods no longer work in the classroom? It's just that they haven't worked for centuries, I'd say.

When I studied, the traditional methodology is what there was and, as there was respect for the teachers, you did not protest much.

But the students of the 21st century are used to moving on the networks, in video channels, they say what they think, what they like and what they don't.

The traditional methodology no longer applies to them.

Would you like an 18th century surgeon to operate on you?

It is what we are doing in education.

The methodology that is taught, in a very high percentage, is the master class, where the

They look for the scientific explanation, record it, edit it and upload it to the channel.

That is already an injection of impressive motivation for them.

That's where you hook them. Do traditional methods no longer work in the classroom? It's just that they haven't worked for centuries, I'd say.

When I studied, the traditional methodology is what there was and, as there was respect for the teachers, you did not protest much.

But the students of the 21st century are used to moving on the networks, in video channels, they say what they think, what they like and what they don't.

The traditional methodology no longer applies to them.

Would you like an 18th century surgeon to operate on you?

It is what we are doing in education.

The methodology that is taught, in a very high percentage, is the master class, where the

That is already an injection of impressive motivation for them.

That's where you hook them. Do traditional methods no longer work in the classroom? It's just that they haven't worked for centuries, I'd say.

When I studied, the traditional methodology is what there was and, as there was respect for the teachers, you did not protest much.

But the students of the 21st century are used to moving on the networks, in video channels, they say what they think, what they like and what they don't.

The traditional methodology no longer applies to them.

Would you like an 18th century surgeon to operate on you?

It is what we are doing in education.

The methodology that is taught, in a very high percentage, is the master class, where the

That is already an injection of impressive motivation for them.

That's where you hook them. Do traditional methods no longer work in the classroom? It's just that they haven't worked for centuries, I'd say.

When I studied, the traditional methodology is what there was and, as there was respect for the teachers, you did not protest much.

But the students of the 21st century are used to moving on the networks, in video channels, they say what they think, what they like and what they don't.

The traditional methodology no longer applies to them.

Would you like an 18th century surgeon to operate on you?

It is what we are doing in education.

The methodology that is taught, in a very high percentage, is the master class, where the

Do traditional methods no longer work in the classroom? It's just that they haven't worked for centuries, I would say.

When I studied, the traditional methodology is what there was and, as there was respect for the teachers, you did not protest much.

But the student body of the 21st century is used to moving on the networks, in video channels, they say what they think, what they like and what they don't.

The traditional methodology no longer applies to them.

Would you like an 18th century surgeon to operate on you?

It is what we are doing in education.

The methodology that is taught, in a very high percentage, is the master class, where the

Do traditional methods no longer work in the classroom? It's just that they haven't worked for centuries, I would say.

When I studied, the traditional methodology is what there was and, as there was respect for the teachers, you did not protest much.

But the student body of the 21st century is used to moving on the networks, in video channels, they say what they think, what they like and what they don't.

The traditional methodology no longer applies to them.

Would you like an 18th century surgeon to operate on you?

It is what we are doing in education.

The methodology that is taught, in a very high percentage, is the master class, where the

on video channels, they say what they think, what they like and what they don't.

The traditional methodology no longer applies to them.

Would you like an 18th century surgeon to operate on you?

It is what we are doing in education.

The methodology that is taught, in a very high percentage, is the master class, where the

on video channels, they say what they think, what they like and what they don't.

The traditional methodology no longer applies to them.

Would you like an 18th century surgeon to operate on you?

It is what we are doing in education.

The methodology that is taught, in a very high percentage, is the master class, where the

explains and sends exercises.

In Secondary, six consecutive hours, over and over again, with the same methodology, the students themselves say that they disconnect after the second or third hour.

You have to apply innovative methodologies, in which the student is really the protagonist of learning.

Master classes, nothing.

I haven't given them for years. How many years have you been teaching?

About 25 years.

In Secondary, I started like everyone else, with master classes, but from the beginning I introduced changes because I saw that you managed to hook a percentage of students, but there was another that did not.

The first big change was to apply project-based learning.

It was eight years ago and, as it went very well, I started four years ago with the inverted classroom, with the video channels.

And it went very well too.

What should they see at home?

It lasts about ten minutes.

In class, we see what doubts they have and, as a group, I try to solve them among themselves.

Then they start with the exercises.

In the classroom we do this or we chat.

If there is a current issue or another such as drugs.

We talked about the chemistry of drugs, the effects they have... A subject that interests them, but they take their ration of Chemistry... Yes, Chemistry, and you also educate them in values... Another day, we talked about satellites, with electrolysis, we discuss how the hydrogen car works, the fuel cell, Tesla, the vehicle models that they like... You want them to learn Chemistry and it reaches them because an environment is created in which they you are putting concepts of the subject in the middle of other things.

And they stay, which is the important thing.

Of course, because there will be those who wonder,

But do the students learn Physics and Chemistry? My classmates told me that I was crazy because the Second-year Baccalaureate students have to do the Selectivity and the method that I apply is the same.

They warned me that I wasn't going to have time to give the syllabus, but I have a month to spare and it gives me time to review.

My students have an average of between one and two points above the Andalusian average in Selectividad. And the periodic table of the elements, does it force them to memorize it?

All the classmates who have passed through my institute force them to learn it, not me.

I leave you the table.

Only in the middle of Second year of Baccalaureate I take them off because they won't have them in Selectividad.

The last six months are not with her, but they have worked with her for so long that they know her without realizing it.

And they haven't had to spend hours and hours memorizing something that doesn't make sense.

For many, this first contact with the subject to learn the table of elements makes them flee in terror. It is that not even in the Faculty of Chemistry do they force them to learn it.

In the end, you know it, but nobody tells you that you have to learn it.

For this reason, I see it as illogical that they are forced to do so in high schools.

It does not make any sense.

What should a teacher do before teaching or motivating? First, motivate, and then know how to transmit and be a communicator.

You don't have to be a genius in Physics, Mathematics or Chemistry because what you are going to explain is very basic. But there are some teachers stuck in traditional ways.

They are not some, they are the majority.

Applying innovative methodologies requires training that is currently deficient.

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And then, they give a master's degree for a year, which isn't well thought out either, and in a year you already know everything you need to know to be a teacher, and that's it, that's it... light years remain for them to learn.

The master's degree should last two years, perhaps, with a whole year of internships.

Should we focus, then, in another way the career of teachers?

Clear.

When I studied in Granada, there was a specialty in Mathematics called Didactics of Mathematics.

They are graduates in this subject, specialists in teaching Mathematics.

That should exist in all degrees that could end up teaching.

But if in the institutes the methodology is outdated, in the University, turn off and let's go.

You can be the best mathematician in the world, but you don't have to be.

To teach in an institute,

you have to be the one who best transmits what the children have to learn.

And that's where teachers fail.

The teachers say that whoever gets out of the routine ends up crushed by the parents or the directors of the centers. It is like that.

If you innovate, you are going to have problems with the inspector or the director of your center, although it has not happened to me and they have supported me.

Also with parents.

Once, a father told me: 'can you do the favor of teaching as God intended'.

But, when they see the results, things change: 'go ahead, go ahead'. The bureaucracy that teachers in high schools have to deal with has a difficult fit with a way of teaching like his.

Bureaucracy has no place in any way of teaching.

The amount of documentation that we have to fill out is such that there are colleagues who tell me: '

or I teach or I fill out papers'.

Just by preparing classes, correcting exams, preparing activities and reviewing notebooks, you eat up the time in your schedule.

A high school tutor is buried in papers and that is nonsense and sad because they are papers that no one sees.

We do preventive education, just as doctors do preventive medicine so they don't report them.

Papers in case the inspector asks for them, in case... And then there are students with whom it must be really complicated.

Clear.

The fact that you use innovative methodology does not mean that all your students will work hard.

I explained to a mother that her son had failed because, between September and February, she had only studied for 21 minutes.

I guess that time she will be recorded from the videos.

Yes,

with an application that records the time that each student spends with the videos that I upload to the channel.

Ma'am, her son doesn't need adaptations, or roles, or stories.

He needs to study.

I show him and the incredible thing is that this person looks for the excuse and covers the child.

He doesn't tell you that he's going to ask you to study more.

Any recipe against school failure? There is a very nice idea on paper, but it is not real.

Not all children have the same abilities or the same educational needs.

In the north of Europe there is an adapted Secondary School.

And something else;

If you want to dedicate yourself to something as important as education, you must be the best.

The figures would improve if the teachers were well selected. And then there are the different educational laws that each party approves when it is in government. Eight laws in forty years;

That sums it up.

An educational law should last the same as a generation: from Infant to University.

And so you can tell if it works or not.

Educational laws should be approved by 2/3 of the House, not by majority.

Thus, the right and the left would have to sit down and negotiate, and when the other came to power, he would not change it.

It would not be the law of the PSOE or the PP, but a law in which we are all comfortable.

There is not a single political party that has had the generosity to do this.

It would not be the law of the PSOE or the PP, but a law in which we are all comfortable.

There is not a single political party that has had the generosity to do this.

It would not be the law of the PSOE or the PP, but a law in which we are all comfortable.

There is not a single political party that has had the generosity to do this.

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