This was a collaborative activity whose aim is to focus in the Spanish context what the students have learned in general about School Guidance and Counselling.
These are the files that we were given in order to become experts in the Spanish education:
Guidance and Counselling in a Lifelong Learning Approach
Guidance and Counselling in Higher Education
Education Staff Responsible for Guidance in Early Childhood and School
Education
Support Measures for Learners in Adult Education and Training
Description of the activity: These are the instructions that we had ro follow in order to develop the activity "group of experts".
1. The group of the class is divided in the ordinary groups: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
2. In each group it’s going to be an Expert of one specific topic related to Guidance
and Counseling
3. The topics are:
1. Spain: Guidance and Counselling in Early Childhood
2. Spain: Guidance and Counselling in Higher Education
3. Spain: Guidance and Counselling in a Lifelong Learning Approach
4. Spain: Support Measures for Learners in Adult Education and Training
4. Each of the experts will receive a document titled as the topics above. Actually the documents are what they need to read to become an “expert”. But not individually, they have to read them with the other experts of the other groups.
Therefore, all experts number 1 will work together, all number 2 together and so on. Besides learning and understanding the document, they will have to decide
the best way of explaining their topic to the members of their group. (45 minutes)
5. Once the experts go back to their groups, they will have to explain their topic as it’s been agreed. During the the explanations the participants can take notes, ask
questions, etc., in order to get as much information as possible. (45 minutes)
6. By the end of the process, the teacher will ask about any topic which everyone
should be able to answer. (30 minutes)
The experience was not good at first. We did not have the time we wished to prepare it. In part because one of the members of our group was not in class. Therefore, I think that we were not able to face an exam, and we were worried about the mark.
Nevertheless, I think that the exam became useful when we were asked to mark our own exam. Because it was then when we had time to review our errors and look again through the information given in order to find the right.
Related to this, my correction was not good enough. The teacher told me that what I should had done to rewrite again all the answers that there wrong, and actually, I had thought that we just had to write down some notes of each question (and just rewriting those absolutely wrong) in order to show what was wrong, at the same time that we justify the marks.
Related to this, my correction was not good enough. The teacher told me that what I should had done to rewrite again all the answers that there wrong, and actually, I had thought that we just had to write down some notes of each question (and just rewriting those absolutely wrong) in order to show what was wrong, at the same time that we justify the marks.
Personal opinion
Through this activity we were able to place the theory that we have learnt in a real context "the Spanish education". I like this activity, because sometimes as we are studying a bilingual degree, the samples that we learn are from other countries and this oe has allow as to know the situation in our country.
Furthermore, it make us realized that the education is not only reduced to Early school, the one that we are studying in our degree, but there are other other periods in life and in which situations guidance and counseling is given.
For the activity, he class was divided in groups, and each one was assigned a specific field and asked to join with the other members of the other groups that were assigned the same field as you in order to understand what was about. Finally, once the topic was clear, each member of each group had to join again his or her first group in order to explain the others what you have learnt , and the others also had to explain to you their respective fields.
However, I think that I learnt a lot about my own topic, but I could not learn as much as I would have liked to about the others’ topics. From my point of view, the idea of working in groups in order to understand our topics was but I think it would have been more beneficial for each one of us if the task had been centered in groups working together about all the fields in which guidance and counseling is developed. Nevertheless, as I mentioned, the individual tests and the work done when marking it provided me an overall of all the topics.
As a transversal competence, I consider that it make evrybody participate, and it make us become responsible of our part, as we were goint to have to explain it to the rest of the members of the group.
GOING DEEPER!
I also want to mention that I found really useful and interesting the web were we could find this resources (eurydice). In you can find information not anly about the spanish educational system, but also from other european countries. I found this two articles are specially interesting, related to the labour of counselling an also with actual polemics about the educational system (such as how can we provide an education of quality in this time of lack of resources...).
Moreover, this is the index of the web page "eurydice" just you to know all the topics that you can find there related to the educational system.
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