María Encinas Ramos, 1ºB Primary Education
MY IDEAL SCHOOL
1. It is difficult to talk about the ideal school in a
real context. We all have many ideas, these ideas will be more or less good but
really those ideas can be done? "Our ideal school" project we've seen
different points of view, innovation... but with the sociological context that
we also live we have seen that many of these things could not be performed as
easily as we thought.
We speak of inclusive schools that collect all
children without distinction, giving value to what make themselves, free
schools based on projects rather than on theoretical content, the distribution
of the College, the colorful for motivation, care of animals or plants to help
the development of children, the resolution of problems of teachers How attend
to diversity, violence or abuse... how to present this in today's society the
fact of "fear", fear that can feel people who have grown up in
traditional educational systems, or not only elderly people, also people think
by 'x' motifs that an education based on memorization, exams, classes with
tables and chairs in rows... is the best. Recently a teacher defended this way
to teach classes in a documentary of the chain the sixth and was not a person
of advanced age.
On the videos that I have seen, I have learned many
new ideas, with some of them I can agree more than with others, I mean, there
is an idea that I was surprised and in which I do not trust much that is on
video telling the children to concentrate and sleep better with noise. The
truth is that school presenting this video I liked by their spaces... but
seemed to me rather insecure. The video saying something like "sometimes
children need to fall, this will teach them the way in which the world
works", for me this is relative, I do not think that the reflection refers
to fall into fitness or at least sometimes, but even so that school children
had positive things.
Without a doubt, Ken Robinson video, I loved. The
video spoke of the importance of creativity and how educational systems today
it are "killing" because they leave no room for the arts, the
educational system by establishing a hierarchy of subjects which at the top we
find mathematics and language, a little below the humanities and at the bottom
of the pyramid, the arts; and within this sector there are also levels, being
the music first and activities as the dance the last. Robinson speaks of a
reality that is being transmitted for years and that each day is more powerful
and is the phrase "You don't miss the time with that because you are not
going to work it or you not going to solve the life". Educational systems are based on creating an academic ability.
Mark three characteristics of intelligence, and these
are that the intelligence is diverse, dynamic and unique. It is only in our
hands to change this and to some extent the ideal school that built our working
group was based on this. We didn't want to methodologies that urge in theory,
in tests, create or force children to be suitable for "x" subjects,
simply we wanted to educate children through games, things that develop their
creativity, activities designed for each of the students who develop abilities
that each of them had, using multiple intelligences, freedom so that each child
to engage in what really excited him and have skills to do so. "Creativity
is for me as important as literacy" lecture: Ken Robinson, Ted.
2 videos of my colleagues were really well, some ideas
from our video coincided with the of their own, but surprisingly, little by
little we are seeing errors or things that we could improve the current
educational system and some of them are obvious.
Some of the features that the other groups highlighted
in their projects were: the weight of the backpacks, which is true, many times
we see children with backpacks that weigh a lot or even backpacks larger than
the children themselves and this brings serious back problems. At first sight
it can be very important, but it should be something that you should study
because in the future of these children daily carry so much weight, brings many
health problems.
They also highlighted the ethics of the school, a series
of values that all members who organize a school or attending it should take
into account that everything is easier and is made more enjoyable together as
the subject of bullying.
Techniques to be a good teacher, us in our video
talked about this from the position of problem-solving or from the point of
view of cooperation between them to create new methods and help you, but it is
true that the treatment of teachers with students, is also very important in
our first semester at the University in the course of teaching we saw amount of
techniques that a teacher should be friendly with his students but also be
careful of crossing certain boundaries so your students at the end not lie you
or does not comply with the criteria set out by Professor...
Classes that encourage cooperative learning as we have
remarked I think in almost all of the videos if it is not at all. Bright kinds,
colors, spaces in the open air...
The idea that parents could attend classes, we loved
this idea, our group worked with her, was not the only one and we collected it
from a video that Yolanda showed us in class. It creates a good atmosphere,
between parents- teachers - children, which involves learning and cooperation.
Another important point that tried to projects was a
diet or healthy food, creating a space that could strengthen once again the
relationship between teachers and students without leaving aside the food
subject of children is essential.
It is important that an ideal school focuses on
children in their learning and their needs but those needs include motivation
and the motivation of the children comes partly from the motivation of the
teachers themselves. All teachers have to be taken into account, all of them
are "leaders", and there are no differences between them. Teachers
must be good with students, putting them in real-life situations, and give
equal opportunities to all, being objective. The figure of the teacher as
guide.
The use of technology, classes reduced number of
students, teachers, causing the participation, feedback, self-expression, and
breaks between classes of longer duration...
Also there was more than one group that is focused on
compare our system educational with of other countries as of Turkey, Germany or
Finland. The case of Finland is always there, since the course started Finland
always comes out when we talk about qualities of a school, stands out as having
one of the best educational systems in the world and the most efficient. The
example of Finland helps us to realize really is not so difficult to create an
ideal school, there are real-life examples and that if everyone wanted to we
could reach these levels. An educational system based on projects, where the
teacher is simply as a guide, which highlights the confidence. TRUST is the
most important thing in this Finnish educational system and really works,
beginning to not disparage the figure of all those engaged in the education
sector.
Within the same class, we could create different zones
dedicated to different intelligences, where all children learning but in its
own way.
Laboratories, music classes, large green areas,
specialized areas for sports, areas for exhibitions, relaxation areas,
laboratories and classrooms for mechanic workshops, design...
Children are an indispensable part of the College, the
most important without a doubt, that we were not the only group that was
Student Council. It is important that children can express themselves freely,
say what they think if it is from a position of respect and if there is a child
with difficulty to do so in public, there is no better shape than the of the
creation of this Council of students so children feel confidence and freedom to
express their emotions and experiences working on these cases such important
topics as we have said previously as violence...
One of the groups created up to a day for parents,
teachers and children, the "Family Day", thus emphasizing again the
importance that has the involvement of families in the education of their
children.
One of the things that most surprised me that they
proposed in one of the videos was that of class furniture. The fact that this
furniture was flexible, to have several purposes and thus was more interesting
for the children.
The idea of learning with your 5 senses and speaking
of numbers, not qualify with numeric notes that this discourages students and
causes them to develop too much competitiveness which produces too much
pressure and stress on themselves.
Another important point is that of bilingualism. We
are at a time in which the languages are fundamental and therefore both
teachers and students must develop language skills in more languages, not only
in their mother tongue.
Teachers will be required to be recycled, not be
outdone, adapt to the new times to make teaching and learning easier for
everyone.
3. As conclusion I will say what I started saying in
this wording, it is difficult to create a school with all our ideas and with
the situation we have today... but it is actually more difficult unless we try
it never. There are many barriers that prevent us from creating certain things
but there are many others that we could change if we know how, for example, the
new law of education "LOMCE". This law requires teachers and as a
result the children always invalid methods in connection with the issue of
projects and theories, among other things. This law requires testing, number of
theoretical issues, this causes that there is so many projects or as much
involvement of students, therefore, less motivated students and teachers... at
the end is like a circle, principle is always connected to the end. Currently
we do not collect open spaces, or colors, or cooperation, projects, or multiple
intelligences, nor sufficient economic support or parents in classrooms, nor
constructivism... There are always teachers who seek to improve, in his own
way, his own school, which taught class and many of them get it but this is too
small and it is not their fault, maybe they have in their heads a lot better
and a lot older ideas, but with barriers is difficult to change this... If the
basis of the problem does not change it is difficult for the rest to do so.
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