Attention to diversity´ is the principle which should rule the whole Education. The LOE stablishes the implementation of all the necessary means to ensure that all the students reach their highest capacities and skills. Student's needs range from those with a more ordinary nature to others with extraordinary nature.
Paying attention to this principle, this activity allow us to know the extraordinary situations that the education system has to face.
Each group was assigned one of the following topics with each link where we could find information about them:
Special Education Needs provision within Mainstream Education
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Special_Education_Needs_Provision_within_Mainstream_Education
Separate Special Education Needs provision in Early Childhood and School Education
Support Measures for learners in Early Childhood and School Education
Moreover, we were also given a power point, which contained different teaching strategies:
With this resources, we were asked to made up a class proposal that we would have to put later in practice with our own class.
The topic that we were assigned was the last one " Support Measures for learners in Early Childhood and School Education".
We decided to start introducing them to the topic through this power point:
Moreover, I´m going to summarise the way we develop later the class, our aims, materials used, and main factor of the activity.
Objectives:
1. To learn the contents about Support Measures for Learners in Early Childhood and School Education.
2. To be able to put in practice the contents explained.
3. Cooperative learning by working in groups.
4. To develop the critical capacity to evaluate what other groups have done.
Materials:
1. 3 murals, one for each target group: hospitalized children, children from rural areas and itinerant students.
2. Post-its of three colors.
3. Power point.
Procedure:
Our collaborative activity is based on the “El album de cromos” activity but we have done some changes in order to make it more participative and creative.
We will show a power point in order to give the needed ideas and the information to the class. Before starting presenting it we will advice the class that they have to pay attention because they will have to work on this information without consulting it again.
At this moment, we will spare the class in three groups and distribute a mural to each group. We will also distribute post-its. Each group will be assigned a specific color of post-its.
Each member of the group will have to write in a post-it a proposal for putting into practice and for adapting to their target group the measures explained in the power point presentation. The members of the group will have to talk for not repeating the information and help each other. Once it is finished they will stick post-its on the mural and rotate it to another group.
Now what the groups have to do is to correct and complete the information that the previous groups have stuck. They must put their contributions in the other part of the mural.
The rotation of murals is done one more time and finally each team will have the card that they had at the beginning with posits of the others teams. This way all groups will be able to add things to each mural and to get more complete information.
If there is time left, each group will expose the mural to the rest of the class.
Assessment:
During the activity we will be watching how they are working in order to help them if needed.
Also, at the end of the presentation, we could make some questions to see if for example the target group “students of rural areas” have information also about “hospitalized students” and to check if they have learned.
Furthermore each student will have to sign their own posit. This will help us to do an individual evaluation of it (this fact could motivate them to do the work properly).
In order to assess the work group is the reason why we have given a different colored posit to each group. Apart from the post-its, the final exposition will also help us to assess their work.
Final conclusion
With this assignment we did not only improve our knowledge about the topic, but also our creativity and work group, when thinking about an original way to make more interesting the activity for our classmates.
I have learnt that when you are giving classes it is more you have to take into account many factors:
- We have learnt to manage our time, and I personally think that this is a difficult part because as we have seen, the classes can work out different from what you expect.
-I realized that, as teachers, when developing a classs we can´t forget the assessment, but that it is an important part. We cannot only pay attention to the final results of the activity, but to the work of each member of a group during all the process, in order to find dificulties, people who have more facilities while working or expressing with the group and people who have more dificulties or just do not want to participate.
*This is the power point that we use at the beginning in order to teach them the main ideas of our topic and inspire for their work in the post-its.
-The most important thing that I ´ve learnt is that it is possible to break with the traditional way of teaching. To develop activities which can motivate our students: creative and different from the ones they are used to.
I think that all the groups had really good ideas for their class proposal:
They make me realize that the competitive activities are the ones that engage more the students. A proof is that the day after the activity where we had to stick together (an remain like this or we would have to read a definition...) everybody´s arms were so stiff nd some of us even had bruises.
I also really like the activity where were divided as groups and we were asked to act as if we represented different target groups (hospitalized children, children from rural areas, inmigrant students...) which requested a grant. I think that staying in the feet of our target groups and supporting why we considered that we deserved the grant/facility offered or not, was a really effective activity.
Finally, just mention that I consider that giving a kind of dossier or extra information related to the topic, is useful to make clear the main aspects of the topic. This an example of the information that they provided me in one activity:
-The most important thing that I ´ve learnt is that it is possible to break with the traditional way of teaching. To develop activities which can motivate our students: creative and different from the ones they are used to.
I think that all the groups had really good ideas for their class proposal:
They make me realize that the competitive activities are the ones that engage more the students. A proof is that the day after the activity where we had to stick together (an remain like this or we would have to read a definition...) everybody´s arms were so stiff nd some of us even had bruises.
I also really like the activity where were divided as groups and we were asked to act as if we represented different target groups (hospitalized children, children from rural areas, inmigrant students...) which requested a grant. I think that staying in the feet of our target groups and supporting why we considered that we deserved the grant/facility offered or not, was a really effective activity.
Finally, just mention that I consider that giving a kind of dossier or extra information related to the topic, is useful to make clear the main aspects of the topic. This an example of the information that they provided me in one activity:
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