El Faro: A Reading Tour

El Faro: A Reading Tour

Introduction.

It is a very interesting book structured in a prologue, an introduction, seven chapters and a final annex. In each chapter, the protagonist tells both both positive and negative things that are happening to him, giving the reader his point of view and a lesson or guide that serves both the protagonist and for the one who is reading. The author will try to deliver a message to the reader giving his opinion on such a basic and essential topic as communication. We will give us clues about making a good conference effective and succeed.

Everything points from the first moment that the author himself is the protagonist of the book. Many data from his biography are exactly the same as those of the protagonist. The reading begins with a character who is dedicated to giving conferences and, at a given time, at the end of a conference, he realizes that he does not reach the success he intends to achieve. The message he tries to convey does not reach the audience that attends the conference, the protagonist does not understand it and decides to look for the reason, since he had spent a lot of time preparing that conference.

Developing.

Throughout the reading we observe several characters, but in reality they are only part of the work the author and Max. Max’s figure will play a vital role throughout the book. Thanks to this teacher, the author feels motivated to know and reconsider about the things he should change, and it is one of the personalities that everyone should have by our side, giving us the necessary support and, at the same time telling us with respect theThings we have not done well.

After talking to the teacher, it is clear that he needs help so that his communication can improve and connect effectively with his audience. Max will simply recommend traveling. Travel to Menorca, where the protagonist has a little house, and that during those holiday days he has only dedicated to observing the headlights of the islands that surround him. The protagonist will not know, but each lighthouse will give him guidelines to improve his communicative message.

In this simple way an itinerary begins that will give you answers of the communicative keys that you will need to give a good message. Each lighthouse will discover how he can make the listener arrive and that the public ends up convinced after hearing it. Launch an effective language.

The first message will be given the Favàritx lighthouse and it will be as simple as when communicating the important thing is to have a great and unique idea and rely on this. When presenting to the public this idea you have to touch all the points so that it can be understood well, without leaving much of what really matters. The listener has to capture the idea and be able to apply it to his day to day. There will be when the message has the expected success.

 It has to be an effective and convincing message, the author proposes not to deviate from the main topic. The second message will be given by the arthrutx lighthouse, giving us the clue that when communicating we must adopt a strategic position, which speaks must "shine" above others, so that total attention is paid. Therefore, the message that demos must be made remarkable.

 Currently we are all receiving many messages day by day, and, when we want ours to reach the listener and be effective, this must be done so that it impacts and is in memory. It would be interesting for this to make a creative message, with personality and include some history or metaphors (as Professor Max says) so that the message is more durable and unique.

The third message is quite interesting. It affects the language that we must use when expressing ourselves. We must opt for a simple and effective language to be able to understand each other with the listeners, we must think that there will be people of different personality in the public and that if we opt for a complex message it may not reach the public, possibly not everyone can understand it. 

Language has to connect with the listener. You have to take into account its social characteristics and adapt the message to whom you will receive it. In a classroom and giving a message to our students, the same language will not be used as when you want to make an exhibition before an audience that for example is dedicated to finance. Vocabulary, syntax, or expression are factors that must always be adapted to the listener.

The fourth lighthouse provides something as vital as what is going to be received will be the real message. We can broad. Personal feelings are fundamental and when communicating we must empathize with the listener, always looking into the eyes and trying to know what he is thinking. In addition, the expression of our feelings when communicating says more than one’s words.

From the fifth lighthouse we can extract that, at the time of communication, it must bring the listener closer, not to coerce it and leave it in a corner. True communication is the one that invites you to participate, the dialogue is essential and thanks to this you can share new ideas or experiences. Here was one of the protagonist’s problems, instead of approaching his audience, he moved him away. It is essential that there is freedom, and for this you have to listen, try to be generous and not coerce.

All these little ideas that the headlights give them are fundamental to change. In the end the reading will end the performance of the different premises views and how they manage to be effective.

Relating reading to psychology we could link all the theme of the book to motivation. Acquiring the role of the teacher, we will influence extrinsicly in the student as well as Max in the protagonist or the headlights themselves. Each lighthouse can be considered an incentive that will help the author achieve what he is looking for, those clues that will help him communicate better. Do not forget that communication and expression are fundamental competences that must be acquired throughout the educational stage.

With the second lighthouse, we could stay, if we apply it to our future practice, with which we must try our student to learn and stay with the message. Creativity will be fundamental, and the teacher’s role will have a lot to do with this aspect. Innovation is one of the vital elements when incorporating new methodologies in the educational field.

The third message refers to the use of simple language, and as a teacher it will not be less. The teacher, as we have seen with theories like Vygotsky’s, will be a guide, a mediator, an counselor, in which the student supports. The characteristics that a teacher must have are related to the teacher-student relationship. As the reading is arguing, that both the exponent and the listener must complement each other, in a classroom it is the same. 

The teacher must actively observe the student, as well as here the protagonist to his listeners when he makes this reference at the end of the reading saying that he forgets papers and wants to have a good connection. Also the use of "messages" will be fundamental. Both in a conference and in the classroom we have to be ourselves, being natural and empathizing with the public. If this is added to this, the person who is listening (student) comes to us more directly, since the emotional levels of both are linked. 

Communication, as reading says well, must be done in an assertive way, that is, firm and affectionately. The exciting, moving feelings, using stories, connecting with our language. You have to get our students touch. Therefore, language is a vital tool that favors our expression and understanding by others.

You can see in turn as the protagonist is thinking and reasoning throughout the reading, while the headlights are observing. This could be linked to rationalism. Authors like Chomsky defended that learning was based on this: thinking and reflecting, and it is what the protagonist will do. In addition, it will acquire significant learning that will be very useful.

In the course of reading there is a key element that Ferrán Ramón knows how to use very well: motivation. The basic idea of the book is this, having a motivation for something and not stopping until the proposed challenge. Extrinsic motivation can be observed (the teacher’s case or reaching the objectives and knowing what each lighthouse holds), but there is also enough intrinsic motivation by the author. 

We can see how the protagonist wants to be a competent person, who struggles to achieve some ends;In addition, self-determination or autonomy also acts, since it will be only whoever finds each test, and the part of gregarious will not be missing, seen in the author when in the annex he explains that we are beings that we need to communicate because it is a way of approaching thepeople around us. It will be necessary to establish links with the people around us. 

All these factors, which we can appreciate in the book, affect the intrinsic motivation of the protagonist himself. Thanks to them, the character can acquire intrinsic motivation and the teacher has only been support. An aspect that could be criticable would be the ease of the character to discover those clues. Simply with putting in front of the lighthouse discover what is the message that hides after it, and there is hardly any difficulty (the chapter that goes in boat and is quite cold) could be saved in this).

Conclusions.

Therefore, we could extract from the island of the five headlights that, as teachers that we are going to be, before we put ourselves in front of a class with twenty -five students, we must be clear that we want to tell you exactly and provide them with a main idea. A simple teacher is more effective for the student than one who tries to give a lot of subject and content and in the end it ends up reaching a few. We must not forget that the teacher’s work goes beyond transmitting content and knowledge;is to be a person and all that this entails. 

We have to be creative and original, so that our students see the traditional and authoritarian in another way. Each student will be a world, and therefore we must take into account that the narrative mode must be synchronized, teaching the content as a story or story so that the student arrives better;With the analytical mode, since there will be people who need more specific communication. Language must also be close to the student and at their level of thought and knowledge. 

If we use a technical language, the student will feel that he moves away from the teacher, and this will lead to learning that can be achieved, but it will not be really optimal. Education goes beyond transmitting knowledge, we have to train people in values. When expressing ourselves, the tone with which we say things is very important. You have to control what we say. The feelings are going to be noticed in our appearance, but we must know how to control it. It will be necessary as teachers knowing how to control our feelings, since sometimes they can betray us.

If we want to carry out an activity with students we must convince. You have to be excited, motivated so that people see us and encourage. A convinced teacher is a basic tool for motivation. The respect and treatment of you. You have to listen to all students and not reject visions that have different. Very interesting that if they attack us we rely on the group and ask them their opinion. Most of the time they get on our side.Naturalness is essential and very comforting. "You have been yourself"