Attention to diversity in process

Today, it has been the last day to prepare our work about diversity. We have been working a lot in this work these days so we think that it will be an activity that it will provide them learning and enjoyment.

Attention to diversity

Today we have been doing a work about “Attention to diversity”. First of all, we have divided in groups.

The groups are the following ones:

1. Special Education Needs provision within Mainstream Education (Students with specific need of ed. support)

2. Separate Special Education Needs provision in Early Childhood and School Education (Students with specific need of ed. support)

3. Support Measures for learners in Early Childhood and School Education (Students in disadvantaged situation)

Each group should read the first one to get a proper understanding of the whole topic: attention to diversity. When we have understood what the diversity is “to respect the differences of other people because each person is unique due to some aspects.” For example, differences of race, religion, culture or gender.

Then, we have to design the activity which should be developed in one hour session

The next day, we will have one hour to put it in practise with our classmates.

EXAM'S DAY

Today we have checked what we had learnt in last sessions about School Guidance and Counselling and from the “Group of Experts” activity.

I think that it has been an useful activity because it hasn’t been a simple exam. We have done exam and later, we have had the opportunity to correct our own exam so we have could observe our fails. It is usually impossible because teacher doesn’t allow you to correct your own exam because the most of people wouldn’t be honest with their marks.

In addition, I think that the main problem is that in the exams you have to know a lot of concrete data that you are going to forget when the exam has finished. And it isn’t the exams’ objective, the exams’ objective is “to learn the general idea about a topic” in order to put in practice that knowledge in a future.

Group of experts

The aim of this activity is to focus in the Spanish context what we have learned in

general about School Guidance and Counselling.

It’s going to be used a technique named Group of experts (collaborative

methodology). Following the steps:

1. The group of the class is divided in the ordinary groups: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.

2. In each group it’s going to be an Expert of one specific topic related to Guidance

and Counseling

3. The topics are:

1. Spain: Guidance and Counselling in Early Childhood

2. Spain: Guidance and Counselling in Higher Education

3. Spain: Guidance and Counselling in a Lifelong Learning Approach

4. Spain: Support Measures for Learners in Adult Education and Training

4. Each of the experts will receive a document titled as the topics above. Actually the

documents are what they need to read to become an “expert”. But not

individually, they have to read them with the other experts of the other groups.

Therefore, all experts number 1 will work together, all number 2 together and so

on. Besides learning and understanding the document, they will have to decide

the best way of explaining their topic to the members of their group.

5. Once the experts go back to their groups, they will have to explain their topic as

it’s been agreed. During the the explanations the participants can take notes, ask

questions, etc., in order to get as much information as possible.

6. By the end of the process, the teacher will ask about any topic which everyone

should be able to answer.

I think it is very interesting activity because each student has a responsibility in each group and it makes easy the collaboration of all the students of the class.

In addition, I love the topics that Miguel has proposed because we have learnt a lot of new things about education that we didn’t know.

Last day of presentations

Today presentations have finished. In these two days of presentations, we have seen our effort.

I think there is a lot of difference between groups that they are not shy and others groups where shyness played a trick on much of them.

However, I think all groups have worked very hard in this project because it is the first presentation in this subject and we haven't know how the teacher is and how he will mark us.