CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE 3º PROJECT: PATRICIA ZARZA

INCLUSIVE SCHOOOLS BY AMIGOS DEL FOOTBALL

Amigos del Footbal talked about the Inclusive Schools. They first started with a little definition about what are the inclusive schools, and it is suppose that the inclusive schools takes up the principle of respect and recognition of the different students don’t matter the different characteristic that they have and it organize in a flexible and diverse way.

They also talked about the different characteristics that this schools have, such as that they promote equal rights for all the students and that the methodology is focused on the students characteristics and they also defend the diversity and the heterogeneity.  

Alter that, they talked about 4 different authors that support the inclusive schools, such as Gordon Porter, Tony Booth, Mel Ainscow and Gerardo Echeita.

But there are some difficulties to start with this type of schools, at first, we have the different polices that say a contradictory things, the diversity and the didactics that affects to the new way of teaching and learning that this schools try to promote.

So, after that you have to follow some steps to have an inclusive school such as creating inclusive cultures, where you established the inclusive values, producing inclusive policies, where you develop a school for all types al children, and evolving inclusive practices.

In the first school that they show as, Amanda Berri´s School, they talked about the necessity to respect the way that every child learns and in their own rhythm, also the video talks about the necessity of the teachers to adapt to different children, where the kids that to live and learn in their way.

In the second school, O Pelouro, is a school where the kids know that they can have a relationship with kids that have some learning disabilities and they know that they can learn also a lot of things with them.

So, in this schools we can see how it is integrated the diversity, how the different child work together and alone, to make them grow up in a mental and a physical way. It is also clear that the kids work at their rhythm and in the way that it is good for them, because something that can work for a child it cannot work for another one.

ICT AND LEARNING DISABILITIES BY CRONICAS VIAJERAS

Cronicas Viajeras talked about ICT and learning disabilities, they talked about 3 disabilities.

First they talked about the Autism, these people have difficulties with socialization, language, thoughts and imagination, so they use tablets and cameras and they have improve in  the integration support and in the support to the initiative.

Then, they talked about the children with Down´s Syndrome, which they have difficulties with the distractions, they have minor initiative, poor diferenttion between old and new stimuli, so they use whiteboards and some game to and they have improve in the memory aid and it has help them to concentrate.

And to finished they talked about the child with motor disability, that there are children that have difficulties with the physical and motor things, and also with the unadapted facilities, so they have work with the music and the computers and laptops and the have improve in the adaptations, it has helped them to communicate better and to be more comfortable.

In the video, we can see that technology makes things possible to them, it helps to them to be more comfortable and to communicate in a better way, and they help to them to feel equal to the rest of the kids that are around them.

So, the conclusion of this topic is that the technology can help to all the different people, no matter if you have a problem or not, if you know how to use it in a way that it can help you, it is going to make your life easier and to the people with disabilities is going to give them an opportunity to integrate in the social community that the classroom is.

ICT AND IMPROVEMENT SCHOOLS BY TEAM PERK

Team Perk start talking about the different advantages that the ICT give to schools and how the technologies improve it, for example, you can adapt your methodology to the different necessities, interest and rhythms of learning, it is more dynamic and promote the creativity and also you can communicate with different professionals to share material or with the families in an easy and fast way.

However, you can find some difficulties such as the cost of the tools or the lack of formation that the teachers have but in this topic we have different solutions like meetings with others and with course to continue the formation and give security to them because they have to be updated and adapted to the kids of the XX century that are digital natives and they learn with ICT.

Also they were talking about social networks and the different benefits that it have but also that we have to be careful with the security and others and they also talked about two types of social networks such as vertical social networks (only can entry the students) and horizontal social networks (all the people can access).

Finally, they said that there are different apps which they can learn a lot in a different and funny way and also what’s more important in a practice way. Besides, with the robotics the children can learn in a trial and error method and they can learn to solve different problems and to tolerate the frustration.

With the video we can see a real case of school that use tools like iPads in this case in class. We saw that as the students as the teachers and parents are satisfied with the result and this method of learn because they learn in an effective way and having a good time which is very important.

So, it’s necessary that we keep in mind that the ICT offer us a lot of benefits and different ways to teach the children but we also have to teach them how to use it in a properly way so they can obtain a lot from it.

INCLUSIVE SCHOOLS BY UNKNOWNS

Unknown talked also about Inclusive Schools, and they defined the inclusive school as the process that the society has to follow to develop and to ensure the learning and participation of all students, teachers and parents in the school life, with attention to diversity and vulnerability.

They talked about the same authors that the other group, that were Porter, Ainscow, Booth and Echeita.

Some of the objectives were to not leave anyone out, to promote equal opportunities, justice and democracy and to promote dynamism and interaction between institutions.

Some of the benefits that an Inclusive Schools have are that they develop individual strengths and gifts, it develop friendships, it gives them the opportunities to learn about it and accepts the individual differences and positively affect to appreciate diversity and inclusion on a broader level.

Then they also talked about the different barriers that this schools can have, such as the contradictory laws and rules, the cultural ones with the discrimination of the rules between culture and children, and the didactics because there are some competitive attitude to the Cooperative Learning and that the curriculum is structured with disciplines and with a lot of books instead of the learning processes.

In the first video we can see how the Inclusive School is related with the socioeconomic factor, with the diversity, they develop multitasking, they develop a good class environment and good values.

In the second one, they related this types of schools with the learning by doing things, as learning in a practical way, and the role distribution that is also important because the kids have to know the role that they have and that it can change every moment.

So, with this topic, as I said before, we can see how they integrated the diversity and how they respect everyone even though they don´t have the same characteristics and the same qualities. We can see how the kid learn how to develop by themselves the different aspects that they want to have and also they know how to develop the knowledge.

SOCIO EMOTIONAL LEARNING BY WANDERLAST

They started talking about why this social and emotional learning is important to include it in the schools as a subject like all the other ones, and this idea was defended by Rafael Bisquerra that said that this is as important as maths or language and that this will help the kids to understand better their emotions and their can understand how they feel and to prevent the negative emotions.

Then they talked about the methodology that we have to use to teach them this things, you will have to talk everyday with the kids about how they are feeling today and how they feel with their partners. We have to teach them how to be empathic so they can also understand how they partners are feeling.

After that they talked about how this is related with the multiple intelligence theory that was develop by Gardner, so the propose to have the emotional intelligence week, where they propose them different situations where they have to say how they would feel and what they will do if there are some negative emotions.

Besides, they also said that this is in relation with the Cooperative Learning, so with this the most important idea was that there is no bulling because they know how they partners feel and they can understand that maybe one that they act in a different way but that doesn´t mean that they are going to change in the way they are.

To finished, they talked about the empathy and how it has to be work in class with some activities like the “Walk in my shoes” that it consist on you have to be in the other persons situations when there is a conflict, so here we have to highlight the importance of the teachers and the parents.

In conclusion, it is important to work with them the emotions that can appear so they know how to manage them and how to control them in a good way so they can get some good things about them. Also they have to know how to understand the emotions of the other and how to be empathic.

LEARNING COMMUNITIES BY MUSICAL CHAIRS

The learning communities is formed by the teachers, the students and the volunteers. Between all of this members it has to be collaboration, cooperation, coordination and communication.

First there are the relationship between students and teachers, and they say that the teacher is not the only one who has the knowledge to help the students to get it, the other students can also help their partners with all the things that they don´t understand or that they cannot do it by themselves. The teacher is someone that share with them his/her knowledge, is someone that is there to help you, is like a guide, that provides you the motivation that you need to construct you own knowledge.

Then we have the relationship between students and volunteers, where the volunteers share the knowledge through their own experiences, so in this way the students can also be educated in values. The volunteers make the classes more dynamic, funnier, different, where the students can also see another point of view, and where they can interact with other people that has been in social environments.

And then we have the relationship between teacher and volunteers, where its need the coordination and that they help each other to get the best from their students. These ones have to trust each other, they have to have fellowship and to support one to the other, so they can built confidence and understanding.

So, it is important that this three relationships work to be strong because with this the students are learning a lot of things that doesn´t appear in the books and that are also important such as values, how to work in a community, how to socialise and how to react in the different situations that you can front to.

LEADERSHIP AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS BY DUMBLEDORE TEACHERS ARMY AND MARIA PÉREZ

Why is important leadership for schools?

Leadership is important in schools because you need someone who is able to make decisions that maybe at first are complicated but then it will improve the school and the way that the students learn, to give them more chances to learn with different things and to give them the chance to discover themselves.

It is also important because the leaders have to know the different things that are the students’ needs to learn, so with that they can make a decision about what they are going to do to transform that needs into something positive that the kids can use to learn.

What are the characteristics for a good leader?

Some of the characteristics that a good leader should have are that has to be a good decision maker, to be astute, to have clear ideas, to trust on the other and to be self-awareness.

A good leader also has to be a good businessman, because he/she has to take carer about the environment in the way that it isn´t a barrier to the teacher and to the students, and also because he has to take care about the development of the children and the school. It also has to be a good organizer, that has to bring qualify teacher to the school, he/she also has to motive children, teacher, parents and the whole community to participate in the education. And to finish it also has to be a institutional expert, he/she has to stablish information based on expert communities that make all people responsible of pupil learning and school develop.

So, to conclude this 3º project I have to say that it is important that we take into account the different learning needs of the students to make the learning process more effective but we also have to take into account that the students are also people with feelings, and we have to teach how to control them so they don´t interrupt in a bad way in the school.

Also, for the people with some difficulties we can see that there are some things, such as the ICT, that can help them to feel more involved in the class and to make them learn in their own way but at same time as the other students.

And talking about the ITC we can see that the technology can bring a lot of positive things to the class and a lot of possibilities to learn, new ways of teaching and new ways of doing things.