TASK 7 (COEXISTENCE PLAN) STAR

Helloooo everyone!! I am Ainhoa and this week I have been...the STAR!!

First I have to say that has been amazing!

I have enjoyed a lot doing this task for two reasons, one is that all of us have worked without any problem and have had a lot of laughs and the other reason is that the Coexistence Plan is a very interesting topic and very useful for our future so we have worker with more interest. 

We have learnt a lot of things like how to resolve conflicts between children although we have missed steps about how to resolve conflict between teachers or teachers and children.

As I have said before my experience has been wonderful, it was very fun the process to record the video although I was very nervous about my English but my colleagues who are fantastic helped me, so I enjoyed it a lot!

However I would like to say that we could do it better so I promise do it more complete and more fun!!

I hope Zzzzzeeeee you soon!!

STAR.THE GAME:SNAKE AND LADDERS

NEWS NEWS , THE STARS HAVE SURVIVED TO THE GAME ;)

 Hello bloggers!

I am Maria Jose, the star this week. I was the star weeks before and my experience was really good but this week it has been, from my point of view, a bit different and you will ask yourself why?

This last part of the task 6 was about a game called "snakers and ladders".In this game two stars of each group had to play to this game and the winners would obtain a  card or joker for each member of the group that  could change by one question (of the two questions) in the oral exam marked directly with a 9.5 or 8,depending on the position(first or second)

I have to recognize that in this task I have had to do a difficult and responsible work (to learn all the questions that the class and my group “busy bees” we have done about lomce). So I have had to training and for doing it my group did a series of games to learn it more easily.

I studied very hard during this week but I felt insecure and worried because I wanted to do it as well as possible so I have tried to think in positive all the week in order to avoid suffer pressure or stress,I recommend you this kind of things a lot .

And then the expected day came….

When Linda said “the game is started” I felt REALLY NERVOUS.I have never felt in this way, maybe because when you are working in groups your responsibility is bigger than when you work alone but not only that, my group was so motivated  and excited that me and Bernabé as stars felt a big responsibility but at the same time we felt more encouraged for doing it as weel as posible.
At the beggining of the game I felt nervous(Imagine I had to have clear ideas about the topics and to know how explain it talking out loud)  and I thought that all the things that I had studied  I had forgotten! but little by little I started to feel more self confidence about myself and when Linda asked us we respond the questions in a good way.Although we anwered questions we had bad luck :(   with the snakes during the game: We fell in many snake's squares(snakes head),descending in our position.

We continued playing to this game on thursday 30th.We knew that we had few posibilitites of being the winners due to the position of the other groups in the game and because we had  1 hour for playing the game so it was difficult to win.And what happened at the end??
WE LOST but,although we have lost in this game,we feel very proud of our work because this kind of games is to be lucky.In other words,in this game you don't win because you know all the questions you win per pure luck basically.

All the groups did it very well but the winners were POWER TEACHERS AND KC&KO)!!! CONGRATULATIONS GUYS!!
It has been a pleasure take part in this game and playing it !

Related to my experience as star I always say that this role is the best because you learn a lot of things about your weaknesses(nerves) and your strenghts(talking in public),something that is very important professionally and personally.So I recommend you that you prove it and comment your experience and how do you feel in this moment because the emotions that you experiment in this moment are incredible! 

STAR.THE GAME:SNAKE AND LADDERS

Hi everyone!!

This is the final week, during these months we were doing a lot of interesting works about School Organization & Resources in the classroom, but this last work was different to the rest.

I´m Bernabe, and I was the star with my peer Maria Jose. We had to play one game in the class in that we were asking for questions about the Spanish Educational System. We were so nervous during the activity, because if we won this activity, we won some points to the final exam.

When the activity started, the lucky was not with us. We had the sensation that we knew all questions, but when we must to answer, nerves attack us. During the activity, we were getting used to this play we were more relax and we could enjoy this activity. I will never forget the good sensation of climb the ladder and, in the opposite, the anger of descend through the snakes.                

                

Finally, we didn´t win the activity. It was not the final that we wanted, we were sure that we could win because we prepared a lot  to win this work (note: we did not cheat XD). I think that this activity has a very important factor: LUCKY, I don´t think that this work is the best option to evaluate any work because lucky is very important to win. But in the other hand, I must to say that in this work I have learnt more than in other works, because for doing it, you must to understand very well the contents from this activity, I was the star, and I had the responsibility to do better as possible this activity, it implies that I had to learn every concepts of this work, not only for me, I had to do it for all people of my group.

Task 6 (Spanish Educatioal System II). Work with my classmates (questions)

Hello again, I´m Bernabe, the star of this week, and here you can see the questions of the topic one in alphabetical order.

Questions topic 1

-A boy who is fifteen years old doesn’t want to study, because he thinks that earning money is better. Do the children have to go to the high school? If the answer was affirmative, do you think that there are differences between a boy who goes to the high school and with other who doesn’t?

-According to LOMCE, what are the main goals of the Spanish Educational System?

-According to the actual Spanish Educational System, what has been given more emphasis at?

-According to the new reform, LOMCE, in addition of the core subject which will have more importance, which other subjects will be emphasized by the LOMCE?

-“Adult Education and Training” is aimed at people over 18 years old, but, are there more people who have access to that type of education? If so, tell us who.

-Ainara has always wanted to be a professional dancer since she was little. She is in the 2^nd year of ESO in the course 2014-2015. At what course will she be able to have access to an education which will let her be a professional dancer and what certificate will she need? Once she has got this certificate, what type of education will she have access to? Which areas can be found at this type of education?

-As LOMCE pretend to reduce the early school leaving rate, by which new measures will try to do it?

-A student can receive a Pre-Primary Education, Basic Education, and Upper Secondary Education. Apart of what, what three types of professional education offer the Spanish Education system to students?

-Between what ages is the basic vocational training for? What is its main aim?

-Do you think that a boy or a girl who is in 4^th year of ESO is receiving good contents in his/her school’s subjects which can help him or her to choose a good type of Bachillerato in a future?

-How has the Act of Improvement of Education affected the upper secondary education?

-How is distributed the Administration Institution in Spain?

-If I have more than 16 years, but I work, so I can´t go to school in the regular regimen. What could to study?

-If I was a student older than 16 years wth a laboral contact, whitch kind of educational institution should I choose?

-If you don´t want to follow with bachillerato after 3 years of ESO what is the alternative that LOMCE offers?

-In the administration and management of the Spanish Educational System, what role does the central and regional educational administration?

-Is necessary that every student develop the minimum competences required by their school, but who is in charge of establish that competences?

-It´s the believed that in Spain there is more potential in our students than what it is thought, how do you think that Spanish Educational System is going to improve their Academic Perfomance?

-Matilde has been living all her life in Kent. However, this year, her parents have moved to Spain and now she is attending school in the 4^th year of ESO. With the enforcement of the LOMCE, this year, Matilde must achieve two things in order to go to Bachillerato. What are those two things?

-Name some of the areas where special emphasis will be made with a view transforming the Spanish Educational System.

-Rafael has received the “Lower Compulsory Secondary Education Certificate” which means that he has access to upper secondary education or the world of work. Finally, he decided to go to upper secondary education, how many academic years does it last and what possibilities does it offer?

-The minimum competences are establish by the General State Administration (Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport) and the authorities of the Autonomous Communities (Departments for Education)

-The Spanish Educational System, ie, the set of educational administrations, professionals in education and other public and private agents is in the process of educational reform LOMCE, how would this reform is proposed? Why assumes the need to combine quality and equality in education?

-The Spanish educational system is worse than the educational system from other countries. How do you think that the new law, LOMCE, is going to solve this problem?

-Until what age it is not compulsory incorporate the children in the Educational system?

-What is feature that characterizes the Administration and the management of the Spanish Educational System?

-What is the Act of Improvement of Education?

-What is the Adult People Education (EPA)?

-What is the difference between evaluation criteria and evaluation standards? Give an example and explain what supposes.

-What is the education that is incorporated into all the subjects of Basic Education?

-What is the name of the reform that claims the need to combine quality and equity?

-What are the main differences between “Primary Education” and “Higher Education”?

-What kind of education will not be financed by the public budget?

-Which are the branches that take part of the upper secondary education?

-Which are the main similarities between the main objectives on the Spanish Educational the main System and the main principles of the LOMCE?

-Which type of University has more autonomy?

-Why was it necessary to introduce a new reform?

Task 6 (Spanish Educatioal System II).Star

Hello, I´m Bernabe, the star of this week.With this role I am the principal voice of my group and I have to represent it explaining the task that we have done but this week the dynamic of the stars has been a bit different. Furthermore for preparing the activity there were some difficulties due to some facts that I am going to tell you in the next paragraphs.

This week has been a special week to work because it was the Easter week. Due to this fact, it was impossible doing the work together, because all of the members of the group were with their family. In spite of them, we realised the work very well and the facilitator solved this problem(we did skype).

When I was preparing my role, I was so nervous because I have never been the star and it is a role with a very high responsibility. Fortunately for me, this week the roll of the star hasn´t been very difficult, it was easier than other weeks because in this, the stars haven't must to expose any work to the class.

In the work of this week,we have worked with other groups of the class(four members of my group have worked as supervisors with the group "Keep Calm an Keep Organized" and the the other four members(including me) have worked with the group "Power Teachers".We have had to evaluate the cards of the Power Teachers group and supervising how they were evaluating the other cards that belonged to the rest groups of the class.For me, it was a very good experience, because we had the oportunity to know how this group work, so, it was a good point to compare different point of views and ways of work evaluating the cards for the game.

In conclusion, the coordination this week has been more difficult than other weeks, but the work of star hasn´t been as hard as other weeks.

See youu!!!!   Busy Bees.    

                                                                         

      

Task 6 (Spanish Educational System I). Star

Hi bloggers! I´m Ana, the star of Busy Bees.

Today, I have been a gossip alien with the purpose of know how some of my classmates evaluate each others. In other words, I was designed to go to the POWER TEACHERS´ world, where there were some visitors who belong to KEEP CALM &KEEP ORGANIZED´s world.

My mission was investigate if my colleagues of both worlds evaluated correctly (obviously, from my point of view), and comment in this post if I´m agree with their evaluations, so let´s go.

First of all, I´m going to start with KC&KO, who evaluated the Mind map of POWER TEACHERS, I think that they were fair in their decisions, and evaluated them in a good way.

Then, POWER TEACHERS evaluated the KC&CO Mind map and my group´s Mind map, and, like with KC&KO, I´m agree with their evaluation, all of the members read both maps, and had into account the opinion of KC&CO to evaluate my group´s Mindmap, like a good team.

In conclusion, I´m very pleasant of work with these groups, they evaluate like a group, not like one person over the other members (like a kind of leader), also they have had into account the opinion of the other group, always with respect. There was a good atmosphere among them, something very important to evaluate fairly.

THANKS FOR ALL:

KC&KO: Ángela, Noelia and Elena.

POWER TEACHERS: María, Alba, Anthea, Silvia.

I hope work with you again guys.

XO XO, Busy Bees

Task 5. (Summary Video). Star

 Hello everyone!! My name is Miriam and this week I have been the Star of the group BusyBees!!

First of all I want to apologize for everything that has happened in the class, in the exposition, and for the problem with the video that we have had, we have worked very hard to do it, because of that, we were so concerned that nothing was wrong and to solve the problems.

My experience as a star has been good, from the first moment that we knew the activity, we started to prepare everything and I felt very sure with my exposition. This week we have had to make a video that included all the contents that we have learned in this subject of School Organization and Educational Resources. My group decided that, between the two programs which Linda proposed us to make the video, Powtoon and Moovly, the most interesting and creative one was Moovly, so we started carrying out the task from the first moment.

From our point of view, this activity has allowed us to learn about new tools that in the future we will use, as well as helped another time to organize us as a Group and take advantage of what we do. We have worked pretty hard, and we believe that the result can be seen in the video, so we are very happy.

The day of the exhibition, Linda proposed to present our work in a "competition" of the type of Eurovision, in which we had to present our videos to the other teams. The Group which will have the best one, will win a prize (a lunch in the cafeteria). The judges would be: first ourselves voting for the other groups (30%), then the teacher Linda (40%) and finally, other people who do not belong to our class and who would vote in the same way as us (30%). In the voting, until the end of the competition, our video was very close to with our partners ItSchool, but finally, they won getting the most votes, congratulations guys, you did a good work!.

Regarding to my experience as a star, I have to say that at the beginning, as is usual, I was very nervous and afraid to do it bad or not as good as I can. This first part was well, the problems came when I had to put the video on the computer to show our work to the other groups, there was a problem when I passed the video from Moovly to the pendrive, so the video was passed with errors and it did not open. I got very nervous and I did not know what to do, the computer did not read it, so we opted to try to solve it while the other groups continued with their exposure and showing their videos.

The first solution we tried to carry out was to put the video on another laptop, but as I have said before, the problem was in the pendrive, so it was impossible to open in any one (we tried to open it on three different laptops, have to give the thanks to our colleagues who left us them). I was more and more nervous, I thought about going in my car running to my house and bring my laptop where I had the original video (I never thought that we could have had this problem). Finally I remembered that the last night I sent the video to Dropbox, so everyone got excited.

When the last group ended their exposition and showed their videos, I had to swallow my nerves, to apologize for all the problems that we have had, and to put the video again. This time finally everything went well! After so many efforts!!.

In conclusion, I can say that despite all the problems we had, our group felt very satisfied with the reactions of the people when watching our video. They laughed, because we did it in a very original way. To finish the video, we recorded us singing a song that everyone liked very much, and it was very funny. So we finally feel comfortable with the work done and the exhibition, which, although it did not go as well as we had hoped, we took it forward.

I hope you like my post!! Bye Beeessss!!

Task 4 (The Dark side of Textbooks). Star

Hello everyone! 

I am María and this week I am the star of the group Busy Bees!!  ^^

I am so worried for this role, because I am aware that it is one of the most difficult and stressed roles, but I want to do as better as possible.

At first, Me and my group have had to read some confidential resources about textbooks and their “dark side”.

So, I have had to study a little of  textbooks but of course I have had to explore the different facts of their dark side.

So, how do I explain the dark side of textbooks?

Through our poster, we want to represent a school, because it is the building that promotes the necessity to buy textbooks.

In the middle of the poster, we can see the TEACHER, because he/she plays one of the most important roles that is the transmission of the knowledge.

With the door we want to show that teachers have to “open their minds”, I mean, they not only have to focus in textbooks, they have to use other methods for the teaching process.They have to teach with other alternatives such as: ICT that is New Technology like: Digital books and other options are: oral teaching, teaching notes and so on.

And then, for showing facts against textbooks, I am focusing in the following ambits:

         -   Economical Ambit

-     -  Epistemological Ambit

-     -  Ideological Ambit

-     -  Educational Ambit

So, students will be more motivated and interested in their subjects with this new experience.

When I studied this information, I was very nervous on Monday for the presentation and of course with the “surprise activity”. 

This activity consisted that the expositions are a kind of “piece of arts in a museum” and the rests of the groups have to see our info graphic and if they want, the will ask me whatever they want. 

So , I was very surprised with this activity, but I had fun because the rest of my classmatesand my teacher say to me: “Well done María” or “ This poster is very clear and original”, an Iwas very happy for these comments. 

This experience was incredible, and me and my group are very proud.

I hope you like it! :)

Task 3 (Telling stories). Star

The STAR is here :) 

Hi!!I am Maria Jose and this week I have worked as the Star.

This week we have had to do an exposition about some content of the second cycle of Primary Education. My group and me decided to realize an exposition about the senses because it is, from our point of view, a very interesting topic to explain to children, in which the teacher can do different activities and interact with their students, like I did during the presentation.In fact one of the objectives of this task is to explain the topic in the way that I would do with my future students.To do this task I have worked very hard during this week in which our group thought about how I would explain the different concepts at the exposition in an easily way, how I can capture their attention and what kind of games I could do to make a dynamic and funny presentation while they learn.

Before the exposition I was very nervous, but it is normal, because it is my first exposition and I had only 4 minutes to do all the activities and explain all the information. When I was in the middle of the class explaining it, I have to recognize that I felt very comfortable and very motivated, so I tried to express the content with different examples and proposed some activities in which a volunteer that belong to the “Power Teachers” group (SILVIA) helped me in order to experiment with the different senses.

Finally, the exposition was very good, so my group and me felt very proud of our work because we had worked a lot on it, and we could appreciate it. We have to continue improving our works in spite of the difficulties.

Personally, it has been a good experience for me and I love being the star. I have learnt many valours with this role: one of them is to realize of my strengths (expose, explain and transmit the ideas that I want to say) and also control my weaknesses (nervous and anxiety).I recommend this experience for everyone because you do not learn only the content, you improve your potential to be a teacher, and as  future teachers, that is good for us.

Here you have the video of the presentation. We have had some problems with the video, for that reason, the presentation of myself at the beginning of the exposition does not appear, so I have done a transcription about what I said in that part. You will find it in the next paragraph.             

Sorry for it.

Presentation
Hi everyone!! I am María José and I am the star of the group Busy Bees, This is my volunteer Silvia who is going to help to do some activities with the senses. I am going to talk about the senses. This explanation is dedicated to children of second cycle of Primary Education.I hope you like it :)

Sensitivity is required to understand our surroundings. Our senses give us information about the world around us so we can react to it.

Have a good time watching the exposition ;)

The information in which I have supported to do this presentation is from the following webpage: ceiploreto.es

Task 2 (TH: Cartographic Projections). Star

Hello, my name is Yolanda and I’m the Star this week :)

This week, I had to explain the different Cartographic Projections and the effect of the Media in the perception of the reality. During this week I have felt very nervous although we have been working very hard!!

After the exposition I had to explain that it was very difficult for me the role of the star because of I´m a nervous person. The presentation was a disaster… One part of the main mural fell down to the ground at the beginning of the exposition, so my colleague Bernabé had to help me to hold it up. This fact altered me, because I became more nervous and my mind went blank so I guessed that I would forget some information that I should said, for that reason I decided to read all the information…. 

Perhaps another factor that would have influenced me, is the change of the tactic,  because at the exposition I have to exposed with my colleagues of other groups, those are the stars of the groups 3 (“Keep Calm and Keep Organized”) and 6 (“Umpalumpas”). Also we had thirty minutes to mix our information, and doing another exposition to expose in 8 minutes. It was a good experience to work with them, but I think it would be better if we would have more time. I want to congratulate them, because they have done a good work. It was a pleasure to work with them!!

The Three Stars: Clara, Mº Cruz and Me (Yolanda).

Personally, It was a bad experience, but I think it could be something constructive for me…. It can help me to improve my weaknesses (nerves, worry, and insecurity). And I hope the next time, it will be better, because I´m sure that we will work very hard!

Here you have the information that we have prepared for the exposition!

In this exposition we are going to talk about cartographic projections.First of all,taking into account the caracteristics of the different projections(Robinson,Mercator and Azimuthal) we are going to compare two selected countries(Canada and Turkey) .Furthermore we are going to choose one of the projections that we would use in the classroom.
Secondly,we are going to focus on the media and how it can determine the vision of students in the majority of things,also we are gonig to explain the relationship between this task and  the slogan "media are not neutral" and finally we are going to give you another example of treasure hunt.

So, this is all, I hope you like it!

Task 1 (TPACK). Star

Hello people!!! My name is Gracia and I am the star this week. This week, the role of the star consists in carrying out an exposition about the TPACK model with a poster. During this week I have felt very confidence and we have worked very hard in the TPACK task, because we wanted to do an original and creative work, but the problem appeared when we realized that only one could be the star so we had to choose one of us to do the exposition ,and I was chosen.

I felt very nervous because firstly I was going to do the exposition with my colleague, but then I felt alone and with a lot of responsibility and I thought that I could not do all the exposition by myself and I was worried because if I do it bad the hole group will have a bad mark.
Instead of this fact, I do the exposition the better I could do and I started to explain all the contents to my partners of the class.

With this exposition I have learnt how to focus my nerves and relax myself when I am doing expositions. Before this task, I had not heard nothing about TPACK, so I can say that I have learnt a lot of this model and I think that it is very useful.

Although I have felt in this way, I have to recognized that this have been a good experience to improve my weaknesses (nerves, insecurity, intimidated..) and to work harder next time.

And finally, here you have some photos of my presentation!!!!

 

 

Zzzzzzze you soon!!!