by Pilar Alonso
This is the power point that she used to show us how the school works:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xztwqv5cb1hr1yd/Charla%20DOI_GAUDEM._MAYO_12.ppt
I really like the unusual teaching carry out in this school so I want to include it in the blog.
I think that Gaudem school is an example of how things can more difficult than the ones we are got used to, but it doesn´t mean that this is not possible.
Nowadays, the educational system tends to separate those who have special needs, in other schools or more commonly in the classes called "aulas de enlace". t
We usually think that this technique is "necessary", but maybe is in fact a way of escaping from any difficutly that can bother the teaching process.
On the other hand, schools could take the risk of adapting their teaching. And that is what I liked about the Gaudem school, as Pilar Alonso said:
"Hay que ver la educación no como que el niño necesita X, sino que es la clase la que necesita eliminar unas barrera"
What the school has to do is to adapt their classes to the problems of these children to achieve a class in which all students, and not only a few of them can succeed. In Gaudem school, they adapt the classes and they don´t see differences as problems, actually, they see them as something that can be taken as possitive for school and for everyone's experience. Actually, she told us how the parents tend to prefer their children to be in the class with deaf people.
Collaborative organization
She told us that the first thing to do is choosing a model of counselling. In this case they have a collaborative organization.
Teachers counsellors and families are asked to work in a collaborative way in order to deal with the different needs.
Athe same time, they have to promote a cooperative work among students, It really impressed me how the children were used to for example (as we saw in the video) exposing their work with leaf-mute children, so while one was exposing the work throughgestures, the other one was telling it in loud voice, or the other way round.
This was an example of how they are developing a bilingual project with deaf people, mixing in the same class deaf and hearing people. Moreover, in order to make the lessons understandable for everyone, there are two teachers, one communicates in oral language for hearing people and the other communicates in signes language, but not only for deaf students, but also for hearing students in order to introduce them in this world and to teach them this integration that is so important. I think that they can directly learen values as equality, to not discriminate people and the belief in the right of having the same opportunities.
GOING DEEPER!
Pilar Aloso also emphasized the imporatnce of techer´s role:
"El colegio busca profesionales reflexivos, ETE : con Ética, Técnica y Empatía."Because this kind of professionals will be able to be responsible and take decisions. The teacher should promote the cooperative work and the constructivist learning.
She denounces that the fault is usually in the lack of teacher´s training.
Related to this topic I have found this, about what the government offers in order to cope with that, and to check the quality of the education provided:
Institute for
Teacher Training and Educational Research and Innovation
Institute for Evaluation.
http://www.institutodeevaluacion.mec.es/
Moreover, I leave you here some videos just in case you want to start learning the sign language:
Moreover, I leave you here some videos just in case you want to start learning the sign language:
