About me
The Global Teacher
The global teacher presentes a current view about the globalized teacher.
Here, we think of students as the main characters in a process that teachers design with them and for them.
This Process always emphasizes the best techniques and methods to accomplish
our main goal: Teaching beyond
the classroom.
Priscila Furlanetto Lund
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Priscila Fernanda Furlanetto-Lund has a Bachelor’s in Language Arts-Portuguese/English (2004) from São Paulo State University (UNESP), a Master’s degree in Literature and Social Life (2008) from UNESP, and a Master’s degree in Education, Learning and Technology (2019) from Western Governors University in the United States. Since she was a little girl, she knew that she would be a teacher and that through this profession she would contribute socially, contradicting everything she heard about being a teacher.
Teaching for her is more than a job, it is a passion. She discovered she had a talent to teach as a child while she pretended to be her younger brother’s teacher. Doing that, her brother learned how to read before starting Kindergarten. Then, her destiny was traced: she would be a teacher.
She went to a Technical High-School (2000) in her hometown, Jaú, located in the countryside of São Paulo State in order to become an Elementary Teacher. In 2004, after finishing her Bachelor's Degree in Language Arts at UNESP in Assis, São Paulo, she started her career as an English language teacher in a large network of language schools, where she also worked as a Coordinator and a Pedagogical Director.
In 2011, she started working as an English Professor at a private college in the city of Curitiba, Paraná. There she helped the Coordinator implement an innovative methodology for the institution, based on the socio-interactionism. She worked with different techniques in order to gain the fluency of future English teachers, giving them support, not only to learn the language itself, but also in matters of teaching methodologies.
She also worked as an Elementary and High School teacher at an International American school in Curitiba (2012), teaching Portuguese language classes to foreigners, which provided her with extensive experience in this area. From all the knowledge acquired at this institution, she was able to participate in a contest that selected teachers to teach Portuguese language classes to Americans in the United States, a program funded by the Utah State Government, in which public schools support a Portuguese language immersion program.
Since then (2016), she started teaching Portuguese at an Elementary Public School in Utah, USA. This experience has helped her understand language teaching in an even more dynamic and different way. She hopes to be able to spread the knowledge she has acquired there to teachers and future teachers in this area of teaching. Also, she hopes that her dream can come true, which is to make her profession a means to improve the society in which we live, always believing that education is the key to build a nation that is able to think in a critical way.
In 2019, she published the book The Global Teacher and English Language Teaching: a post-method view through Intersaberes publisher. This book was the motivation to start The Global Teacher Channel - Canal do Professor Global (2020) on YouTube.This way, she feels fulfilled by being able to write, discuss and contribute, even if minimally, to the teaching/learning process of teachers and future teachers. So, as the scholar Paulo Freire says: ‘Teachers are invited to not neglect their mission to educate, to not be discouraged by challenges, or to stop educating people to be ‘eagles’ and not just ‘chickens’. If education alone does not transform society, without it, society itself can not change either’ .(1996, p. 1)
Priscila still believes, like that little girl from the countryside, full of dreams and ideals, that her students can also, like her, always desire the impossible. She learned from her experience as a teacher that one day, suddenly, we can meet with our dreams, since they never die for those who believe in the power of education.
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