Task 6 (Educational System II).Analyst

 Be careful!!! The analyst is here… 

Evaluating you: 1 2 3 4 5 ;-)

Hi bloggers!!! J

I hope you have spent a good Easter holidays!

Now it’s time for working hard as we have done until now (although we have worked even on holidays in this task).

I am María José, the analyst, so I have to evaluate the work of the group. In other words, I have to evaluate how the group have worked in this task.

Weeks before I worked as facilitator so now working as analyst has been a bit easier what I expected because I knew how the group was working (how work each member of the group).

Firstly, I would like to say that doing this activity has not been easy, on the contrary, it has been a bit difficult for us because we didn’t know a lot of things about this new law and the reforms, maybe because we had not focused in this topic before or we were not very consciousness about what this recent law suppose on the educational field. Due to it, I have to recognize that, at the beginning, when our teacher Linda explained in which consisted the activity we overwhelmed a lot, but only at the beginning. When we read all the information again (the information about the topics that we had had to develop in the conceptual map) and understood the different topics (the other topics that the rest of the groups of the class had to develop) we felt more relaxed :-)

This was the ideal moment for thinking in possible questions and it was great because each member of the group commented on the different topics. It looked like a "brainstorming". It possibly indicated that we had many ideas about the concepts, the only thing that we had to do was to clarify the ideas and put them in order and, from my point of view, we achieved it.

So the best part of this activity was thinking about good questions of different topics, interchange opinions about the possible questions and also doing the cards.

Also working with the other groups of the class(Keep calm and keep Organize and Power Teachers) was a good experience in order to learn other ways of working for improving.It has been a pleasure working with you guys!!

On the other hand, as in all the works that we have had to do there is a bad part and it was doing correctly the questions (that the questions was not very easy and at the same time that they made classmates think about a good response for the question).We were a bit worried about it but we were working hard on it so we hoped doing it as well as possible.

Apart of the best or worst part of the activity is very important as well to highlight how we have been working as a group. In other words, what has been the best moment working as a group and backwards.

As analyst of this group I have to admit that when you work in group you learn a lot of your partners: the way in which they work, their opinions about doing the tasks...

This week the best moment has been living the experience of working through Skype. It was something very positive for our group this week because this is the first time that we talked together and everybody paid attention to the ideas of others. We spent a good time working together.

The worst moment this week it have been in order to meet because not always all of us met and some members of the group stress a lot because of it. Furthermore this was the last week (the next week were holidays).The facilitator tried to solve this problem and we did Skype in holidays for doing the questions and revising them.

Other problem that my group has is that they want to tell their ideas but they speak at the same time and sometimes it is horrible! Imagine eight people speaking at the same time. But fortunately, this is a problem that my group is solving with the help of the facilitator each week.

This week the activity that we have had to do is the second part of the task 6(LOMCE). It was about build the questions of the different topics for being included in the game.

I have to recognize that this week my group and me have learnt new things about this recent law doing different tasks(elaborating a conceptual map or doing some practical questions)in order to understand it in a good way. 
LOMCE is an alternative for improving the educational system and it differences about LOE in some aspects. This law highlights the importance of being multilingualism, the introduction of ICT in the classrooms and improving the vocational training. For this reason new teachers have to be preparing in many fields (technology, languages) in order to improve the education of their students.

This law pretends with these things to avoid the school failure.

The question is: can this law obtain all the objectives that it proposes EVEN to avoid failure school introducing bar exams??

There are many things that we have to continue learning about this law but, as future teachers, we will acquire the adequate knowledge about it and comment on it through our experience as teachers.

From my point of view working in groups is not something easy and for this reason we have to learn to respect the opinions of each one, and it is something very important to highlight to conserve as a group for the next weeks. But not only that, it is also necessary that we feel motivated and thinking positive oh yeah! Always thinking with a positive attitude. I always say to my group that the way for improving as a group is to think something like YES WE CAN! or DON’T SURRENDER! because it is the only way for improving as a group and at the same time for improving in the next tasks and learn among us and with the activities that we do each week. In sum, WORKING HARD, EFFORT AND MOTIVATION, These are some things that we can’t lose for improving next weeks because they are the key of success. 

As Steve Jobs said “the only way to do a great work is to love what you do”. If we think about it we realize that is also very important love the things that you do in spite of the difficulties.So applicatting it to my group, we are going to continue step by step as busy bees being perseverants in our work and doing things as well as possible but always loving all the works that we do in this subject.  ;-)

To conclude, I would like to highlight that this task contains contents that are important in nowadays societies, especially this problematic law (LOMCE).

Many people(teachers,students,parents...) protest with the reforms that this law proposes due to they think that this is not the solution for improving the educational system.

We can see some comments on social networks such as twitter or facebook, and on TV (news or politics talking about it).

We have to be consciousness that this law affects to teachers or “future teachers” (for example, in the requirements that we need as professionals or the number of courses of our degree.It is affected with this new law).In addition,as students of Bilingual Primary Education,we have to study in some subjects(Diversity and School Organization) the impact of LOMCE and the objectives of this law.

Students of primary and secondary education are also affected by LOMCE (for example, for passing to secondary school they have to do bar exams).
Do you REALLY think that education system will improve putting this kind of exams or doing this kind of reforms?? Think about it....

Well, I hope you enjoy reading my reflections!!!

Don’t hesitate to comment on my post if you have something to tell me.

See you on my next post!!!