GUIDANCE PLAN

GUIDANCE PLAN




The final group work consisted in making a a guidance plan. In this guidance plan, we had to expose our main objectives and the way we have planned to achieve them.  It should reflect our target groups, so we focused on: familiar, academic, psychosocial and multiculturalism problems. 


Moreover, we developed a program related with  the multiculturalism problem. What we wanted to do was to create a class that could be both effective and productive for children who knew the mother language and for people who did not know it. This kind of situations are sometimes avoid, but with teachers training and effort it would not be seen as a problem.




OUR EXPOSITION

This is a description of our exposition that we were going to give to the teacher (but I don´t know if we finally gave it to him):

Lansdowne Bilingual Public School is placed in the South of Cardiff. It teaches in English and Greek. We are the components of the Counselling Department. Our aim is to develop a session in which we will explain our guidance plan. In it we propose objectives and activities for different target groups but our specific work is focused on the immigrant students who come to a bilingual school without knowledge of any of those languages and want to have the opportunity of learning them.

At the beginning of the session, we are going to start with a video to introduce the topic. Then, in order to get our audience attention, Athina starts talking in Greek. With it we want our listeners feel what the immigrant students would feel in this situation. Our audience will be totally confused because they will not understand anything. At this point they will be able to put themselves on the shoes of immigrant students.

After it, we will start presenting our Guidance Plan supported with a Prezzi presentation. We want to give the most important points in order to make the audience have a clear idea of what are the next activities going to be about. We will give a dossier to the audience in which the most theoretical information will be collected. That way, it will be also easier to follow the session; it will be more dynamic and interesting at the same time that they will have all the concepts of our Guidance Plan.

Our session will finished with some activities in which we will expose the importance of visual and gestural communication in the case of immigrant integration in a bilingual school and more generally in every context to achieve every student to understand the lesson. Our objective is to mix this kind of communication with activities which can be adapted to the students that know the mother language of the school and to those who do not know it.

This activity has been thought for first primary grade students. It is about reading a book in Greek supporting with gestures and images of the most important words. To assess if they have learnt it,  we have made a domino game in which they have to join the Greek concepts with the English ones. . For immigrant students there is an image next to the English word due to the fact that they do not even know English.

Finally, to close our session we are going to teach and sing a Greek song about the parts of the body, which is also an example of teaching with gestures.


Materials used


This is the guidance plan that we developed
https://www.dropbox.com/s/hedo4o8fc0beh0n/P%C3%A1gia%20web.doc
This is the prezi that we used as the base of our presentation 
http://prezi.com/qgx2e87zpevn/copy-of-school-guidance-plan/?auth_key=eb0ceea0eeeeb6444896a294aa596cbe4b23abc8
This is the dossier was a support for the audience during the presentation. As we were not going to list in the exposition all the objectives and activities of our guidance plan. We decided to include in this dossier the most theoretical parts to give them the information at the same time that we make the exposition more dynamic. It also included the lyrics of the song that we teach them at the end.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mqnhoananei6mp0/DOSSIER%20GUIDANCE%20PLAN.pptx

This is the video that we were going to play at the beginning (but it didn´t work) in order to introduce the topic. In it appear immigrants talking about the "problems" or curious aspects of the educational system that they have to cope with. The idea was to play it until.... after a woman mentioned this "trilinguism" that could be also a problem for parents. We considered that at it was precisely the "problem" that we want to solve with our specific program this video could have been a good way to introduce and link with our exposition.

This are the greek activities that we developed at the end of the class (the story told, the domino, and the lyrics of the song).

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecwh1zjud46cfiq/greek%20activities.docx

Finally, this the video of the song that we also used during the presentation in order to teach it.

 

   

Why I´m very happy with this work!


First of all because it is OUR guidance plan, we have really worked on it. It is not a "copy-paste", it´s the result of mixing the aspects that we found interesting from many different resources. I think that the idea of doing an specific program directed to favour this "trilinguism" was a good idea. Actually, we were experimenting something similar with Athina (the greek Erasmus student) and it was what inspired us to do it.


I have learnt that it has as or even more important the way we communicate our work than the contents. We tried to break the traditional way of exposing in order to capture the attention of the audience.


I consider that we fully exploited the resources that we have at our disposal. We took advantage   of the fact that Athina speaks greek, as a tool to capture the attention of the audience. Moreover, as we didn´t want to bore the audience with decided to give a dossier, because we wanted a dynamic class but also consider that we could avoid the contents. As well as we used the other materials to support our presentation.


Criticisms


I think that despite the video that didn´t worked and the fact that we were stressed because of the time, the exposition ended well.
Related to the contents I think that we get to "connect" everything that we said during the exposition but if I had to do a criticism I would say that I don´t know if our guidance plan is completed, I mean, as the teacher was making as questions we realized that maybe we had focused too much on the objectives and activities with the children, forgetting aspects such as the teachers´ training.