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.