CRONICAS VIAJERAS
(Elvira, Amaya, Miguel Carazo y Zuleika)
This group spoke
about ICT and learning disabilities; it means how technologies can help to
people with disabilities. These technologies
help them to improve and introduce themselves in class with a motivation to
participate.
Some of
these disabilities that they spoke were autism, down’s syndrome and motor
disabilities.
In autism
we are going to find that these types of persons have difficulties like socialization,
in the language, thoughts and in imagination. So, we will can improve their
conditions through technologies like tablets or cameras, because they will
improve the integration support and support to the initiation.
Children
with Down’s syndrome have difficulties like the easy distractions, minor initiative
and poor differentiation between old and new stimuli. To try to help them with
their disabilities we can use technologies like whiteboard and games, because
they help them to concentration and in memory aid.
Finally
children with motor disabilities use to have physical and motor difficulties
and unadapted facilities. People who want to help them use to use MP3, with
music, computers and laptops. The result and consequences that these children
have with the technologies that I just explained are helps in adaptation,
communication and comfort.
AMIGOS DEL
FOOTBALL (Sandra, Alex, Cisem and Melike)
This group spoke about inclusive schools. Inclusive
schools try to ensure that all the students, teachers and parents participate
in school life. They also named some authors like Gordon Porter, Mel Ainscow,,
Tony Booth and Gerardo Echeita.
Inclusive
schools have many barriers to solve. Some of them are political, cultural (
discrimination and categorization) and didactics ( competitive attitudes, text
books etc).
We can
solve them through the creation of inclusive cultures, developing inclusive
policies and developing inclusive practices.
Some
conclusions about this work and inclusive school is that it is a very good idea
because everyone must feel integrated , without any discrimination, and this is
what we get with these types of schools. To achieve this important goal is
important the collaboration between parents, teachers and children. On this way
all of them will be implicated in school and they will know well how the
education is and try to change it in the best way. This point is also important
because is difficult to find schools where all parents collaborate.
THE UNKNOWS (Virginia, Alfonso, Marta y Marina)
This group
also spoke about inclusive school. How I said before inclusive education is the
process that the society develops to ensure the learning and participation of
all students, teachers and parents, with attention to diversity and vulnerability.
They also named some authors like Gordon Porter, Mel Ainscow,, Tony Booth and
Gerardo Echeita. The general ideas about inclusive education are that it is
presented to all the children like a right, it is linked to multicultural
education, it is a way to learn all together and inclusive education accept
that learning objectives must be flexible. So in summary inclusive education do
not leave anyone out, try to promote equal opportunities, democracy and
justice. It wants coordination between all the agents included in education,
promoting dynamism and interaction between institutions. With inclusive schools
the concept of the school as an educational community is developed and
promoted.
What types
of benefits inclusive education have?, it develops individual strengths, it
helps to work in individual goals while participating in the life of the
classroom; try to involve parents in education; promote in the school culture
and respect; it try to give opportunities to learn about it and accept
individual differences; it develops friendships; and promote affect to
appreciate diversity and inclusion.
Inclusive education is not always easy and we are going to find some barriers:
political, where we find contradictory laws and rules. We can solve this
barrier developing a school for all and organizing the attention to diversity.
Other barrier is the cultural permanent attitude of categorize and establish
discriminatory rules between children. Didactics is other barrier to solve,
because competitive attitude, the structure in the curriculum with disciplines and
with a lot of books fights against cooperative learning and the learning to
resolve real situations.
MUSICAL CHAIRS (Irene,
Beatriz, Aipery and David)
The topic of this group was Communication learning. It is the
coordination in the classroom between teachers, students and volunteers.
Troughs this method we must see that school is not something isolated of the
society and that the collaboration of it is necessary and something important.
Society can appear in the school through the volunteers that I named
before. These volunteers are persons who do no t have previous degree to teach
in class, but that helps to teachers, give talks, perform activities and so on.
To achieve in the institution a good coordination is necessary collaboration,
cooperation and understanding between all these members.
This process has three phases: in the first one we think in all the possibilities
to improve our institution (physical, methodology, the classroom…); the second
phase is about to select between all the proposals, the most feasible or
necessary, and which is going to realize. The last phase is to put it in
practice what they have decided and go solving the various problems that we can
find.
MODERN STUDENTS (Elia, Shabaneh, Borja, Patri and Maria).
The project was about ways of living together in the school. The topic
was divided in 4 parts: the first one was about the school mediation, where
appear problems like bullying, violence or exclusion. We can solve them in two
ways, through preventive strategies or repair strategies. The mediators are the
pupils, teachers and employed non-teaching staff.
Then, the second part was about “peer support program”, which is in
relation with the mediator, how to solve problems and so on. Because the
objective of this is improve coexistence and reduce cases of abuse. The characteristics
of the program are promote the ability and responsabilities, and help improve
self-steem. The keys to get the program are that conflicts are as an engine of
change and that the responsibility is shared. Finally the result of this
program is that the coexistence is going to improve, while the intensity of conflicts
is decreased, with an increased safety and satisfaction.
They also spoke about a book called “Archaeology of feelings”, by Miguel
Angel Santos Guerra. They spoke about this book because in it we can see a
comparison between archaeology and education, most specifically a metaphor
between feelings in school and archaeology. It is divided in five steps:
discovery; excavation, indagation, protection and expose.
We must name two mentions by the author of this book, and are that all
schools are equal and at the same time each of them is unique.
After this they named one school, which is
called Kiva International School .
It school is based in the investigation that is based in anti-bullying
programs. It is developed in the University
of Finland . This school
has an online webpage, where you can find online training for teachers,
students and parents, and there is also an anti-bullying program.
Finally, they put a video where we watched that
mediation is when two people have problems they come to the student’s assistant
and they solve the problems as adults. In this video we can see the definition
about student’s mediator; a student assistant is a person that helps the others
when they have a problem or conflict. They get involve when there is some
problem, or when someone is angry or nervous, or in many cases like these. The
qualities that these students have are that they are solidarys and know how to
be empathies. It important to have students like mediators because they helps
to others and solve that others can not do
DUMBLEDORE TEACHERS
ARMY (ADALISA, GEMA AND GONZALO) AND MARÍA SCHANELL.
In the work of this group we had to answer to two questions:
Why is a leadership important in school? I think that a figure of leader
is very important, but always with limits. We are always going to find a
leader, who checks students and teachers. It is also important that the person
who is the leader is an example to follow to others, so he or she must take
care the things that does, these leaders must know to guide. I spoke before
about limits, and the main limit is no consider yourself superior than the rest
of the people. Leader must help and guide to others, no think that is the only
one.
What are the main characteristics of a good leader? In my opinion a good
leader must know which are their strengths and try to increase them. He or she
must be a guide to everyone, and think constantly in the things that can
affects to the group. Everyone must own values, but a leader must own a set o
values to guide, and teach that values that he or she has.
A leader must be a set of skills such as communication, be calm and
peaceful, getting that all the person work in calm each other.
TEAM PERK (IRINA,
SILVIA, JAVIER AND SARA GRANIZO)
The project of this group was ICT and improvement schools. This group
divided the project in four parts: teachers and ICT, how to work with the ICT,
social learning in schools and other tools.
In the first point that I named is included the digital natives, they
are people who has born with technologies; digital divide, it refers to the gap
between people who uses technologies or who does not. Finally in this point
they spoke about future teachers who must adapt to the technologies that are
working at the moment in the world, because they must learnt to use them in
class, because trough technologies they can do their classes more interesting
and motivating. Teachers also have to understand that technologies have
disadvantages, but not for that stop to use them.
With regard the social leaning in schools we can find numerous tools
where students can find answers to various problems, such as social networks,
internet and so on.
This group used some tools like conventional applications ( iPad or
robotics). Some conclusions about this work are that for example social
networks provide a lots of possibilities, disvantages, but that can be resolve
them, and that teachers need to have a training about the use of technologies
and keep actual.
CONCLUSION
In conclusion I think that all these
topics are very important in school. One school is not just a place where you
teach, it is more than that, and it is something that we have being discovering
all the year and we have finish to see it with this project. It is important
that teachers and even previous teachers know about all these aspects of the
school.
If we have more knowledge about this we can improve the education, and
give all the importance to the students, attending their necessities, because
sometimes institutions are no aware about the importance of this.
With all these topics we could see the importance of the inclusion,
technologies and so on. For example technology is very important in education,
because it has a lot of benefits to all types of children, even if they have
some disabilities.
We could see different methodologies where we include feelings and
empathy, the inclusion of all the children…
Teachers are no the only persons who can resolve problems, if not that
parents, mediators, leaders or even volunteers can collaborate together to
resolve problems and improve education. All of them need a reinforce, time and
work together.