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.