Attention to diversity: Practical lesson

Today, we have had a meeting with Pilar Alonso, the Director of the department of Orientation and innovation of College Gaudem.

She told us about how Diversity is understood in this school, what her opinion about it is and how they work on it.

Gaudem School is a college which has the peculiarity is that they have many children with special needs or learning disorders.

Pilar gave us some steps that they follow to identify and deal with children that may need special attention.  First, the counselor should enter in the classroom in order to see the child in its own environment. Then, if needed, the counselor may have to take the kid out of the class in order to carry out some psycho-pedagogical tests. If we get to this stage, parents will have to be aware of the situation and medical assessment may be also needed.

In my opinion, it was a really interesting visit because we have had a contact with a real life and we could learn a lot of things to put in practice when I finished the University.