DEFINING EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION

EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION REACTION
The term educational innovation brings a lot of controversy and doubts due to the way we as professionals had been taught. Most of the second language teachers follow the same strategies and we teach just what is showed in the syllabus. To think about a change in the way we teach make most of the teachers feel uncomfortable. It is easier for an English teacher to follow the same steps day by day but, it becomes routine and it makes the educational process to be boring and customarily for the students as well to the teachers.
There are many situations that affect the application of the innovation in our classrooms I believe that the afraid of failure that many teachers have in reference with the topic as well as the much work it implies make teachers get back when thinking about the theme. As the reading says “educational change should be part of the basic intellectual preparation of all language teaching professional” must have but, in real life educational systems do not prepare us to face the idea of innovative strategies.
To promote the educational change many aspects must be taking into account as the cultural, economic and political factors. We cannot think in making a change without taking into account all the matters involved in the society. The world is constantly changing as well as the way people think so we cannot separate the real life when trying to innovate in the educational system.
The idea is that teachers as well as learners adopt the innovation in order to success in the application of the new strategy; without adopting the idea the educational innovation will fail. Other and one of the most important elements when trying to implement an innovation is to take in to account the context; it implies the students way of learning all their differences and the real needs they have. In this way we can be sure that the innovation we are going to apply works in the best way. Teachers must work a lot in order to get their students involved in the learning process.
In my own opinion I believe that to get the application of this educational innovation the educational system need to make a great change and it takes a lot of time; for that reason and because of the conformism of teachers as well as the high authorities to innovate in our classes is like a dream. We as teacher are obligate to follow some rules and to develop some specific topics so we are limited to what the government is asking us to do. Also it is a must that the universities make the change; without professional well prepare to develop an innovational system it is almost impossible if not impossible to make the difference.