Sunday, September 9, 2012
The Method of Currere: A process of self-discovery
Pinar (1975) wrote The Method of Currere, a method that allows us to explore what we have conceptualized through time, the complex relation between the temporal and conceptual, thus we can discover our self, its evolution and education (p. 19).
After reading, The Method of Currere (Pinar,1975) reflect on the stages and discuss what you think the process will let you discover.
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As I read the method of Currere, my mind constantly shifted to thinking about my past educational experiences. Pinar mentions this as being the first stage of the method. One must go back and observe, to view our past educational experiences by using our current mind sets. Regression helps us visualize where we come from, how did such experiences affect our development, and how do they continue defining certain aspects of our lives. It allows us to accept, be freed of our past and see it in a whole different way. Progression, being the next step, is a view of the future. Considering our interests, where we think we’re headed, becoming future teachers in our case. We must view this future state as reasonable and possible, not take it for granted. In the third step we evaluate our present. We place our past and future aside but remain conscious of them. Our present should be seen as realistically as possible. The current critical vision we have as individuals. It’s important to understand what roles do the past and future play in our present. Last we have the synthetical step; it’s basically where we connect everything together as a puzzle. We become aware of whom we are as we perceive our past, present and future as a whole. We acknowledge ourselves and our personal and professional perspectives.
ReplyDeleteThis process reminds me of praxis and reflective teaching. Though it’s not the same process, I believe that like the others it helps you grow and become a better teacher. To me it seems like a process of very deep reflection. You go from your roots all the way to the future expectations you have as an individual. It’s a way of putting your whole life into perspective and viewing how it affects your profession, the way you function and think. As a teacher, you’re able to evaluate yourself and acknowledge the fact that you will affect and influence others, like your students, in their own processes.
William Valentin
For me it reminded me a little bit about reflective teaching too. Now that I see that you did also I'd like to point out that of the two, I like and agree more with reflective teaching. I agree that both are meant to help us grow as teachers, but for me of this method I think the most important thing is stage one. After that I believe that all it takes is some recognition of what went wrong and then take a new approach on how to fix it.
DeleteBTW: I don't know if this is allowed but great job with your comment William, you actually helped me get a better idea of the method. Thank's.
We definitely need to evaluate ourselves and acknowledge that we're going to be influencing the lives of our students no matter what. And we need to make sure that we are influencing them in a good way. Our present is a reflection of our past, therefore our education, our past teachers also influenced who we are today just as much as our families have.
DeleteRosa N. Gonzalez
The similarity between the method of Currere, praxis, and reflective teaching is definitely something to think about. All these three methods seem to somehow work together by feeding off each other. I think all three are great tools for our development as teachers.
DeleteI really enjoyed reading your reflection because I understood the method in a better way. It is very important for us to go back to our past and remember details that will benefit us as professional teachers. This process will definitely improve our way of thinking. Although we had good and bad experiences with different teachers, our goal is to fix them and expand our education. Moreover, this will guide us to understand better the world we live in, and most importantly the students we will be teaching. Like you explained, praxis and the method of Currere are a way to transform better human beings.
DeleteI believe they are extremely important in our lives; we should be constantly reminding ourselves “this will affect our future generation”. Therefore, let’s be different as educators by not staying in the little “box”.
Monique Ruiz
The method of currere was proposed by William Pinar, a curriculum theorist, in 1975. This is an autobiographical method that provides a framework for reflection on educational experiences using a subjective and narrative perspective. The method of currere (infinitive form of curriculum) consists of four steps that asks the person to slow down, think of their past and imagine their future, in order to understand the present they are living. This method focuses on the experiences of the participants and their reflection and voicing of these experiences in order to transform themselves (Kissel-Ito, 2008).
ReplyDeleteThe steps in the method of currere are:
Regression: In this step, the participant is encouraged to remember educational experiences from their past and how these have guided them in their development, attitudes, and beliefs of education. This helps them understand how the past has affected them, in other words how their experiences have molded them (like with Dewey).
Progression: In the progression step, the participants have the opportunity to consider their future. The participants imagine the future they want or have planned. They consider their long-term goals and ways these can be achieved.
Analysis: In the third step, participants are encouraged to analyze their present (aside their past and future, but considering its influences), the here and now, in other words what they are living through.
Synthesis: In the synthesis step, participants consider the three previous steps. They see how their past, present, and future have molded them into a professionally complete being. In our case, as educators, we see ourselves becoming teachers through the experiences in our past, present, and our goals for the future.
This method provides educators with a tool that can help change the educational process. Kissel-Ito (2008) quotes, from Pinar (2004):
“Currere offers possibilities for change in public education as it encourages reflection on educational experience that connects academic content, subjective knowledge of teachers and learners, society and historical context.”
Personally this process will help me truly think of my past and present experiences and my future goals. The method of currere will allow me to understand what made me want to become an educator and why I made this choice. I will understand why I stopped thinking of medicine as a field of study and moved into education and literature. It will also give me a chance to think about my future, to consider where I am going and how will I get there. Finally this method will help me understand how my past, present, and future have molded the person I am now. It will help me evaluate myself and consider ways to change by improving.
Source: http://old.religiouseducation.net/member/06_rea_papers/Kissel-Ito_Cindy.pdf
Wow, Marilyn you explained it better then the article. This view is great, and even more wonderful how you can use it to your advantage. Hopefully this method can help you and many more. Medicine is a great field, but only you can understand why you choose a different rout. This method will truly inspire many, just as it has you, to regroup and understand their choices better.
DeleteI wanted to thank you Marilyn, Your explanation of the method help me understand the reading better. I was having trouble understanding what it all meant, after your explanation and the point of view of others I was able to understand better and do my work.
DeleteEvelinda Rivera
Interesting to know that you were considering medicine, you would have made an excellent doctor. Yet, in a way I am glad you ended up in education because it is here where you can change somebodies life =)
DeleteAixa Tello
After reading The Method of Currere I was able to auto-reflect and examine every aspect of my being. In the first stage, the regressive one, because it involved my educational past I started to remember my formative years in school. I remembered while my aunt gave me 4th grade science how I made a comment to her about me wanting to teach some day. The second phase called progressive allowed me to imagine my future as an educator, here I see myself as an example and role model to my students. I wish nothing more than to be an exemplary teacher that affects, in a positive way, young lives (creating critical thinkers). In the analytic stage I set aside my present educational experience and then seek the relationship of past, present and future. Being at the point where I am, almost finishing my bachelors to become an English teacher, is great. I look back at all those restless nights where I studied till 4am and it’s worth it. Even though teaching will be a new experience for me I’m up for the challenge, I know it will be an exciting journey. The last phase, the synthetic stage, is where I practice an individual and personal engagement with the educational world. Thanks to the Currere method I made great self-discoveries, realizing my passion to nurture minds and helping others achieve greater.
ReplyDeleteJeiny L. Hernández Cancel
I guess you can say we all learned a bit from each other after reading the Currere method. It made us reflect on who we are as individuals and more importantly as future educators
DeleteAixa Tello
I admire your aspiration to become a teacher. It just shows the compromise and dedication that you put into it. I liked how you took all those phases and applied them in a realistic way to your life as a student, learner, and person.
DeleteAfter doing the Currere assignment I have learned so much about myself that I never realized before until now. It is an outstanding method for auto reflection. This exercise allowed me to think about my strengths and weaknesses in terms of academic, professional and emotional development. . I found this method very helpful for me to strengthen my goals and to motivate me to keep going on my trajectory as a teacher. It allowed me to gain greater insight into my mind and just how important self-reflection and retrospection are to the educational process. I can't say that it was an easy process. It provided me an outlet to highlight important aspects of my life that have built me to who I am today. I consider that this was a great way for us as students to get to know each other better. It allowed me the opportunity to examine my weaknesses and understand my strengths. The process helped me evaluate and understand my priorities and how these are present within my educational and professional development. This process also allowed me the ability to gain insight on how the emotional and social aspects are an important part of the educational process. It also helped me understand my classmates, as well as myself a little better. Thanks to the Currere assignment I can finally accept it and be proud of whom I’m going to be in my future and that is a great and hardworking English teacher.
ReplyDeleteJohnny A. Soto Ruiz
I forgot to mention the emotional aspect of the method, I am glad someone included it in there reflection. I enjoyed reading your comment, specially to see that this method has changed your views and bust yourself up. Keep it going Johnny, you will be a great teacher one day.
DeleteJohny, I am very glad that this reading made your life so much better. Wish I could say the same but at least you mention quite a few aspects in which this method can help you improve your teaching.
DeleteKathleen Gomez Sanchez
ReplyDeleteThe method of Currere transports us deeply into the journey of our life; from a regressive, progressive, analytical and synthetically way of being. I t covey us to conceptualize through time to view and explore our experiences and how we evolve by recognizing our character in a biography; were we view our self through the different developmental stages ( Piaget, Havighurt, Kohlberg) in a process of becoming the person we are now. Placing into perspective the meaning of our educational experiences and how we manage them to continue evolving through time and growth of our professional experiences.
The first stage Currere enters into our past causing us to reflect on what has been our development through the years until the present moment. It invites us to regress as a first step to have a better understanding of our life before the present moment, the decision making, goals and cognitive recognition of conceptualizing it in time. It is the journey of our life; a transition of the person we were and the person we have become; like a biography of our self or a portrait of how we have evolved. In the regression we are able to record our past as an educator to acquire cognitive recognition of what we become the conceptualization of our journey in life and how we are able to reflect and improve in our educational experiences.
In the progressive the author makes us go ahead of time and taste a glimpse of where we will be in the near future, where we are now and how we see ourselves. It invites us to reflect in the moment we are now as future teachers and how we view ourselves in our professional carriers. It allows us to discover if we can or are on the right track to become an educator.
The analytical process allow us to recognize our past, present and future development; the way it affect our character in the educational experience and how they make us the person we are today. It encourages us to reflect as educators where we are going, what can be changed and how can we improve in the process. As an educator one looks back and visualize his student years and the relation with the teacher, my interests, the subject I like, relationship with peers in others; realizing how it affects me in the present when I become the teacher .
In the synthetical process we place together the conceptualization through the temporal stage on what makes us the person we are in the present moment; our way of being. At this moment we have to be clear of the pursuit of a professional carrier, especially if we have become to the final stage of realization of our character and were we are now as a person. It makes you question: is this what I become, is it what I want in life, am I prepare for the school experience and so forth. A reflection into realizing your true self and where is this journey taking you, it offers the opportunity to realized and provide meaning to your ambition or aspiration in life not only personally but in your professional experience.
I think I enjoyed reading your post, more than the reading itself. I understand where you’re coming from when you mention that the Currere method puts us into perspective. It helps us realize how we actually feel about our present choices, know if were on the right track as you state. By going back to all those past educational experiences, we get a clear picture of who we were, and how that past image reflects on what we are now. How that past self influences our current self. As we reflect about the future we figure out what are our true feelings. Our feelings about our future career and our personal lives as you mention in the post. After putting these past and future states into our present perspective we get a full view of our true identity. I basically visualize the method somewhat similar to your reference of it, as a journey from which we realize our true selves, our characters.
DeleteWilliam Valentin
First, I have a few things I would like to discuss more deeply but I will leave that after I reflect on the stages of the Currere Method. According to Pinar, the first step in the method is Regression. This is where all the “magic” begins. It is a step in which, basically, we reflect upon our past and relate it to our present. Pinar explains that only by returning to the past, regressing into the past, examining one own in its past, we develop our present. Our past is part of our present; in fact it is the pure representation of our present. However, one cannot understand this if not able to conceptualize whatever is in the past. We must go back to our past learn from it and come back to the present with the supportive data. The second step, Progressive, we have to find our time machine once more and travel again, this time to the future. It is in this phase that we understand that the future is the present as well. In other words, the future is what shapes the present. The analytical, is the present I believe. Furthermore, the analytical stage is that in which we must conceptualize. As Pinar says, “conceptualization is detachment from experience”. We must lose our selves from it; detach, in order to make better decisions in the present and future. In the last stage that he discusses, the synthetical, as if loosing ourselves from experience wasn’t enough, he suggests that we need to compile our thoughts again. This, we need to do in order to act, do in the present. The stages that came before were to reflect, take examples, and learn from them. In contrast, on this last phase we come together, we form our thoughts, experiences, and learnings into one to create synthesis.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this Method of Currere, I learned that this man likes to complicate life more than what it already is. From my experience in life, we can and must learn from the past but we cannot live in it. In fact, the past is what is supposed to serve us as background knowledge and experience in order to not make the same mistakes. However, history does repeat itself. In addition, the future sounds promising and it is in what we base our hopes but it is yet to happen. I believe in “Carpe Diem”, seize the day. We have responsibilities, we have a life, we live, we learn from life, we do our best, and we keep learning until the day we die.
I really like your comment about "history does repeat itself" and "carpe diem". While reading this all I thought about was a lot of approval with what was being said but now that you say this I am going back (having a first stage moment, JK) and I agree with you. I mean is true, we can't really be going to the past reflecting on every single thing of it. It ill be like, well, living in the past. Also it would limit us to be more open to new things or maybe even ideals. I mean, it is okay to have new experiences, it is okay to learn new things everyday and to let go. After all, isn't teaching a never ending process that has to move forward everyday? so why keep going through all of this? I guess its okay and maybe even necessary at some point, but its better to move forward and doing our best.
DeleteI agree we shouldn't focus ourselves completely on the past, but we need to remember where we've come from and how far we've gotten because of our past experiences. Our future and present is fully affected by our past whether we see it or not. Pinar in my opinion is trying to portray how much our experiences in life affect us subconsciously.
DeleteRosa N. Gonzalez
Its great to see the way you disagree with Pinar, i believe that you cant re-live the past and be constantly being back and forward. But, looking at the Currere method is not like we have to be constantly thinking of our past or spending time imagining the future, the idea is that if you find yourself in a life impacting - momentum you can access your memories and goals to see if you need improvement, that way you can achieve to be what you want to become.
DeleteJeiny L. Hernández
After reading this, I was able to understand it a bit. But what really helped me was seeing the point of view of others and what they believe this method is. This method will continue to help me improve myself and keep track of what I have planned, my goals and why I decided to be where I currently am. Remembering the example our professor gave in class gave me the motivation to write something of my own that made me understand one of the reasons why I am where I am now. I was following the currere method without knowing that it was.
ReplyDeleteEvelinda the middle child, the silent one, the one in the corner, the one that had her big sister leave the house with a boy, get pregnant and not finished her studies. the one that had to deal with the bad expectations that had been put on her, the one they said over and over while she was in high school that she would not accomplish anything, that she would get pregnant and ruin her life. The one that was not allowed to do anything always punished and looked up in the room. The one that graduated from high school with medals. The one that had to rebel and fight to get into college because no one in her family would help her. The one that need to show them, that she was not how they said she would turn out to be. The one that got herself into college and got her own things.
Evelinda the one that, will finish her Bachelor’s degree next year, the one that still has no child, the one that persevered, the first one to get to college, the one that will finish her goals. The one that did none of the things they said she would do, the one punished for the actions of her older sister. The one that wants to bring an example to students that they can be what they want and learn anything if they wish to.
Evelinda Rivera Vega
Reading this made me tear up a little. I believe we are all using the method of Currere without knowing what it is. It is a helpful tool that can aid us in our praxis and reflective teaching skills.
DeleteSuccess is all I wish for you, Eve.
Kathleen Gomez Sanchez
ReplyDeleteMy response to Eve Vega
As I was reading The Method Of Currere I would go back and forth deeply into my personal and professional life and reflect on my interest, goals,education in others.It made me understand better the person I was and the person I have become; and the ways I have improve and can improve as a person.I also remember the example of the professor and didn't put it into words but think about my life the way you desccribed there and make me realize I can relate to your story in a way but what I like is the final stage were we can finally realized that in the journey of our lifes we have obtain our sucess by reflecting and improving the person we are and creating our own path.
What I learned the Method of Currere to be is that is not just about understanding your knowledge or experiences, but it is about going further back to see how did those experiences happened, how did that knowledge was acquired or how did the ideals that one has became our ideals. Are they really ours or was it something that we picked up? And as future teacher this can be a very helpful method for us as teachers, and a great way for us to understand our students. For us as teachers it’s important because it can be a way for us to go back and think and rethink, why we wanted to become teachers in the first place? Hopefully the answers to that question is a positive one targeted to help students be better and do wonderful things, and I guess that sometime along the line somewhere it’s easy to forget what we always dreamed for; the Currere method can be a way to help you remember. It can also be a great way to understand our student’s background because sometimes children’s and teenagers will say some of their ideals but have no knowledge of what it really is and they defend with empty words. This allows us to know that those ideals weren’t really believed by them but taught. This gives us a background idea as to what might be being learned back at home.
ReplyDeleteThe first stage of the method is regressive, and it basically means to go back to the past to see how it was and how it affected your present, how it built it. When it mentioned the focused on educational experience, I thought about the type of teachers I had, the ones I loved and the ones I swore I would never be. I swore not to be the teacher who would just sit back and watch students copy paste what was on the board. I swore not to be the teacher who wouldn’t let students speak up their minds and think critically, etc.
Second stage, progressive I understood to be about taking it slow and just think or reflect. As future teachers I believe that to keep it together, these needs to be done, to later then move on to the next stage, which is analytical. In this stage it says to take pictures and set them aside. Even though I know it’s very literal I’d like to think of it as capturing the moment and then setting it aside for it to be a moment to later remembered or reflect on (in another first stage moment). After this you can move on to the fourth and last stage; synthetical. I think this stage is about placing it all together, a mash up of the stages and reflect on them. “Mind in its place…I am placed together” now things can be seen clearly.
Your post makes lots of sense to me, I can identify with the way you link our past experiences with our aspiration of becoming teachers. When we visualize our past we get to realize how those experiences have influenced our present self. As you, I think regression is a great exercise to understand our students better. At a certain point in our lives we were all going through somewhat similar transitions and learning experiences as our students. Reflecting on such experiences may provide us a broader insight on what our students might need in order to be motivated, and want to become more active in the learning process.
DeleteKathleen Gomez Sanchez
ReplyDeleteMy response to Carlos Miranda
I do belive that we keept using this process everyday reflecting of our past, present and future is a continuation of the story; like a second part of a movie or sequel of our biography.
After reading "The Currere Method" by William Pinar I have come to the conclusion that this method is ideal for an auto evaluation process in which we all must go thru in life. It is basically a four step theory Regressive, Progressive, Analytical and finally Synthetical.
ReplyDeleteRegressive: Taking a mental trip to the past where you can picture all the educational experiences that have made you who you are today. We are meant to observe and record all the aspects we come across.
Progressive: Go the other direction. Instead of thinking about your past educational experiences think about the future. What does it have in store for you.
Analytical: This is the conceptualization stage. This is where you analyze your present.It is exclusive of the past or the future non the less responsive to them.
Synthetical: This is when you consider all the previous stages present, past and future (this stage reminded me of the movie a Christmas Carol). By this stage you are aware and ready to make life changing decisions like the v=career you are going to pursue.
I really like your comment very easy to understand and read. I especially like when you wrote "auto evaluation process". The original writing by Pinar was very hard for me to understand and to see somebody simplify it helps a lot.
DeleteThe Method of Currere starts with this statement, “It is regressive –progressive- analytical- synthetical”, and this is the main point of this analysis. Basically what this method is expressing is the overall experience in education, whether it is learning or teaching. Regressive, progressive, analytical and synthetical are the stages you go through and should fully react or overlook with meaning. The most affective stage, in my view would be the first phase, regressive, because your past is what determines your future, it is always a great way to look back and find what caused you to keep studying or keep doing what you are doing. I also enjoy where synthetical comes from, together and place, to place together. We unconsciously do this and later return to analyzing why, this stage identifies the “Self” asking defining question to keep moving forward or stop. Although the method of Currere is very similar to reflecting teaching as well as praxis, this method breaks it down and gives us a better view and clearer process of how it works, and why it is effective. I enjoyed reading this chapter/article, and will reflect on my past educational life, regrouping all these phases.
ReplyDeleteIn the Method of Currere Pinar mentions Regression as being the first stage of the method. In this stage the person must go back and observe their past experiences. Regression is supposed to remind us of where we've come from, how those past experiences have affected us, and how they've molded aspects of who we are in the present. The next stage is Progression which is a view of the future. This is where we focus on our future and figure out where we are going in life. The future we envision should be something realistic that we can reach. In the third stage of Analysis, comes the evaluation of our present life. This is where we analyze ourselves honestly on how the past and future are molding our present. Last but not least, the final stage is synthesis where we connect the past, present & future and see how all of these have affected our lives, and connect them to see where life has taken us, where we are at now, and where it is going to take us.
ReplyDeleteThis process I believe is supposed to help us improve our future profession, it's supposed to get us thinking of what has affected us in every aspect of our life from our past, present & future. I think it is important to remember where we've come from and see how it unconsciously has affected our daily lives without us even acknowledging it. I think that as future teachers we need to realize how our past teachers and school life was a big part of who we are today, those teachers and students we interacted with had just as big of an influence on us as our parents and siblings. So as future educators we need to be aware of the impact we have upon our students because they will carry it for the rest of their lives.
Rosa N. Gonzalez
I support Rosa’s reflection because as future educators, one must be aware. Aware in the aspect of how we impact our students the way we teach. We cannot educate like chickens without a head, not knowing what to give our students in a daily basis. We must research and reflect on how they had taught us, in order for us to communicate better with our pupil.
DeleteAs you mentioned, this will impact them for the rest of their lives. This is a reality; we will always remember the good teacher and the not too good teacher. As a result of who we are today, is the reflection of our education from our past. We must become better teachers by interacting with our students and creating a good environment in our classrooms.
I believe that my past teachers had a great influence on me, so i liked when you wrote "as future teachers we need to realize how our past teachers and school life was a big part of who we are today". We need to have clear that as future educators we are going to impact soooo many lives and serve as role models.
DeleteJeiny L. Hernández
The method of Currere:
ReplyDeleteAs I read the Method of Currere, we go back to our biographical life in terms of education and how to reflect on it. The real question we must ask ourselves is: what has been and what is now the nature of my educational experience? (Pinar, p.20) There are four steps in which Pinar wants us to stop and think; how was our education and how will we acknowledge it in the present and future as becoming an educator.
The first step will be: regressive, which takes us to the past and whatever they taught us we reflect it in the present. We had good and bad experiences, but one experience I will never forget was in 8th grade. My Spanish teacher used to explain in detail how to recite poems. I performed it from 8th grade through high school, winning first place. Furthermore, these experiences made me interact with others; express myself by acting in different ways. Progressive, refers to; analyzing, paying attention to the interest we find within what happened in the past with what will be happening in the future. The main idea for the second step is to meditate on possibilities we will overall achieve in our life as professionals or future teachers. Pinar states in the analytical step that one’s must describe in detail what ideas, areas of study, discipline, emotional condition and interests we have. Conceptualization is a tool in order to create something by thinking. This interpretation is an ongoing aspect because is what we are going through in the present. Last but not least, synthetical step; is where we see ourselves and reflect on how the past has become a present. Our perspective of putting everything together from past, present and future is an aspect in this final step. As future teachers, we will remember the skills and tasks we learned from each educator, by putting them into practice. Moreover, we will grow intellectually and professionally within time.
The method of Currere has helped me acknowledge my personal and educational studies from my past, present and what my future will be. Additionally, with this method I can improve the way I will teach. One of those aspects will be: the responsibility with my students. I will help them become better critical thinkers in their life and encourage them to become a professional in their future.
The method of Currere promises no quick fixes. On the contrary, this autobiographical method asks us to slow down, to remember even re-enter the past, and to meditatively imagine the future. Then, slowly and in one’s own terms, one analyzes one’s experience of the past and fantasies of the future in order to understand more fully, with more complexity and subtlety, one’s submergence in the present. The method of currere is not a matter of psychic survival, but one of subjective risk and social reconstruction, the achievement of selfhood and society in the age to come. This will let me deeply submerge in my teaching process and understand my ways of teaching. Also, this will help see if I am being productive and my job. I know this is repeating the same but, it really is what the title says: “A PROCESS of SELF DISCOVERY”.
ReplyDeletechristopher Vale
"A process of self discovery" this is another great way to describe this method.
DeleteThe Method of Currere is a "method of self conscious conceptualization" What have I learned through time? How can I apply my background knowledge today? How can what I have learned help me in the future?
ReplyDeleteThe first step of the method is regressive. A teacher must remember his/her past and apply that knowledge to the present. The method suggests that a teacher must go back until he/she was a student in elementary and see everything again how they experienced it. It is important to remember what teachers did to catch your attention and what subjects made you start to daydream. All of this information will help teachers give class more effectively because the teacher is putting him/her self in the students shoes.
Progressive is the next step in the Currere method. Progressive concentrates more in the future. What is in stored for you in the future? This step is where the teacher can make his/her goals or expectations. Teachers must always have a plan on what they will give next week and that is why this step is just as important as regressive.
Analytical is the third step of the method. This step concentrates in analyzing the present. "Photograph the present as if one were a camera, including oneself in the present taking the photograph, and your response to this process." A teacher must learn to analyze their own work daily and at the end review everything learned. The experience of teachinbg is a great way to learn how to become effective educators.
The last step in the Currere method is Synthetical. Synthetical takes in consideration all 3 preious steps. The teacher then must take all these steps and glue them together. It is important to be present of the past and the future, but using all this information to mold yourself into a excellent educator is the method's main goal.