INCLUSIVE EDUCATION by “Amigos del football”
My colleagues studied the topic "inclusive education", we got a definition for this: "Assumes the principle of respect and recognition of the difference of students and That is organized in a resilient manner, so That is can cater to all the diversity of students ". They also noted the characteristics of these schools:
• Defend diversity, heterogeneity and interpersonal relationships.
• Promotes equal rights for all.
• Flexible in Their school curricula, assessment, promotion and organization.
• methodologically focused on student characteristics, not the content.
• Construction of an educational community.
• Promulgates the following values.
• Great Importance Given to the involvement is of parents and community in school activities.
They discussed the difference between inclusion and exclusion. The term inclusion is associated with quality in relationships, it is linked to emotions, affectivity and is related to the ability of people to accept each other and live in harmony accepting differences. Exclusion are differences that reduce a minimum of social cohesion.
There are barriers that affect the development of this education, the policies, the diversity and didactics. But there are strategies to resolve them as inclusive cultures creating, producing inclusive policies and practices evolving inclusive.
Moreover, we explain four thought authors on this subject.
To summarize we can say that:
• Changing schools is possible with the participation of all.
• New values and new goals.
• We are all equal and Have the same opportunities.
• Interaction and heterogeneity as new organizational structure.
• The participation of the family and the community.
I think that inclusive schools are the best because all the people can be integrated. In these schools there aren´t any type of discrimination. It is very important the collaboration between parents, teachers and children. nowadays in general the parents don´t collaborate with the schools and this is a problem for the education.
ICT AND IMPROVEMENT BY “Team Perk”
This group taught us how important technologies are today, out of school children they use them daily and therefore it is considered very useful to use in the classroom as a learning tool. Although they have disadvantages, teaching students how to use them and be responsible with them they have numerous advantages.
ADVANTAGES
• - It allows design alternative and innovative teaching materials rather than the traditionalists.
• - The tools are more interactive, so that the students pay more attention.
• - It facilitates the students share with the world what they are learning, inviting others, such as their families, get involved and support it. Social networking involves sharing views and discuss ideas, which helps children and adolescents develop critical thinking.
• - It foments the independent learning.
• - You can communicate with students in class are usually shy.
• - The speeches of teachers turned out boring and to take notes slow, with technology is easier and faster to access to the information.
• - The ability to create multimedia projects and share them, it is possible to deliver work from anywhere, anytime with the assurance that they arrive to the receiver.
• - To access real-time information wherever you are.
• - Accessibility. The teaching material was limited, we only had what the school had; technology gives us access to online material that covers every need.
• - Connect to other classrooms, other schools, other individuals to share experiences and learning.
• - Active participation by the student.
• - Frequent interaction between teacher and student.
• - Encourage participation and team collaboration.
DISADVANTAGES
• - Not all students have access to technology so it accentuates social inequalities.
• - Students may become dependent on technology.
• - The teacher requires updating. He has to be the first to use the technology and should dominate completely before incorporating them into their teaching process.
• - The teacher can use it as a "nanny" of the students, leaving them full time to use it without supervision or guidance.
• - It may be that the quality of information to which access is not appropriate or required.
• - It requires time by the teacher for the planning of use it.
• - The school should invest in the purchase of equipment.
• - Now we do not pay attention to the grammar rules, we can write as we want that we have spell checkers.
• - There are many possibilities of distraction that they affect the study because it is very easy to get lost and not put the necessary focus on our tasks.
• - It can become a way to keep students busy.
• - The technology should not be used to do what we do without it. Draw, write or read, for example, become something attractive if we made with an application but it has no value. To do what can be done with paper and pencil, you do not need complicated equipment, unless technology contributes something new to these activities.
In short, the technology should not be in use for doing what already we were doing traditionally in a different way, but to do anything that till now we could not do because we did not have technology.
ICT AND LEARNING DISABILITIES by “Crónicas viajeras”
They were talking about children with disabilities and how technologies can help us to improve, to integrate into the classroom with other colleagues, to have an interest in participating in class.
They proposed some technologies, like tablets, cameras, whiteboard, games, mp3, computers and laptops.
They studied three disabilities:
• Autism.
Children with it have some difficulties in socialization, language, thoughts and imagination.
But if they work and study with ICT they improve and the results and consequences are, integration support and support to the initiative
• Down's Syndrome.
Their difficulties are many distractions, minor initiative and poor differentiation between old and new stimuli. The can improve their memory aid and the concentration working with technologies.
• Motor disability
Usually they have physical and motor difficulties, so ICT can help the adaptation, communication and comfort.
INCLUSIVE SCHOOL by “Unknowns“
My classmates talked about inclusive schools and how society should be involved to overcome social differences and ensure learning for all students regardless of their difficulties. They indicated the ideas and the main objectives to promote equal opportunities.
Advantages of this type of schools:
• The development of individual strengths and gifts
• To develop friendship
• Participation of parents
• To promote a school culture of respect
• to appreciate the diversity and inclusion positively
The politic, the current laws and a poor study plans are barriers to achieve integration.
These schools often are related to socioeconomic factor but it is not to be the only one.
They cited authors such as Porter, Ainscow, Booth and Echeita.
This school is beneficial because it respects the differences and adapts to all children, in there, they can develop themselves according to their interests and needs. They also teach values like respect each other and to the rest of society.
LEADERSHIP AND SCHOOL EFFECTIVENESS by “Dumbledore teacher’s army” and “María Pérez”
Why is important leadership for schools?
Leadership is one of the main factors for the successful development of a school and to have a quality education. This charge is usually the principal and other school institutions and teachers, head teacher, etc.
He should be:
• A businessman: the leader has to take care that the environment doesn't affect to the pupils and teachers and also he has to take care about the develop of the children and the school as an institution.
• An organizer: has to bring qualify teachers, creative concepts and institutional methods that will define the quality of the education following a reform plan. They also motivate children, teachers, parents and the community to participate in the school and in education.
• An institutional expert: they have to stablish information based on expert communities that make all people responsable of pupil learning and school develop.
What are the characteristics for a good leader?
The leader has a great responsibility, he makes important decisions that influence changes in the educational process.
The skills of a leader are: clear, recognize, trust, accountable, influence, self-awareness, astute, decisive and innovate.
WAYS OS LIVING TOGETHER IN THE SCHOOL by “Modern students”
First they talked about school mediation, because there are so many cases of bullying, violence or exclusion and objectives has the mediator to solve them and to avoid them. It is important to decide who is the mediator, may be a classmate, a teacher or any school employee. Children need to feel safe because in this way can help other colleagues and also learn to control and manage their own emotions.
On the other hand, they spoke of peer support program, that is how to solve the difficulties and conflicts, it is important to dialogue and share responsibilities. In this way safety is increased, decreased conflict and coexistence is improved.
A curious point of his presentation was when they related archeology of feelings with education in five steps: excavation, discovery, inquiry, protection and exposure.
They put as an example a school in Finland (KIVA) where work with bullying and online materials to avoid harassment.
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING by “Wanderlust”
They talked about the need to include social and emotional learning at school. Rafel Bisquerra, professional expert on the topic believes it is as important as learning math or language. In this way, children understand better how they feel, they can prevent negative emotions and how to manage them.
This theory can work in the classroom in a pratical level. They suggested:
• To talk daily with students about how they feel and how they think their partners feel.
• It is related to multiple intelligences, so that all children have to develop emotional intelligence, for it, they propose to do the "week emotional intelligence", they are put children in different situations and they have to explain as they feel in each one.
• Also it is related to cooperative learning, because if you work as a team with your teammates and you spend a lot of time with them, you can know how they feel and thus prevent many cases of bullying.
• Another important factor to work in class is empathy, they proposed an activity, "walk in my shoes," it is to get in the situation of the other person when there is a conflict.
In this item it is very important the role of teachers and parents.
COMMUNITY LEARNING by “Musical Chairs”
Our group worked on "community learning ". It consists of coordination in the classroom between teachers, students and volunteers, they can be relatives, neighbors, anyone who can help and bring benefits to the community.
In this way, it is considered that school is not an isolated entity of society and collaboration is needed to educate and train children for the future. Society appears in the school through these volunteers, it is not necessary they have preparation or an specific academic degree to teach, they can help teachers, give talks, tell personal experiences, perform support activities, etc.
It is very important to have a good relationship between all members of the community, the understanding, collaboration, cooperation, etc.
This process works in three stages:
• DREAM
In this first stage, we dream, it is a brainstorm, you think about all the possibilities of improvement for the school and community, whether physical, methodological, related to the organization in classrooms, etc.
• PRIORITIES
It is a selection from the above ideas and prioritize the most feasible and necessary to be, they are those come true.
• WORKING COMMITTEES
Finally, this stages to put them into practice and go solving the various difficulties we may encounter in the process.
As a conclusion, I can say that there are too many factors that influence in the education at school. I realize one important thing, in most of the topics, we are talking about the role of the family, they have to collaborate with teachers. I think this is value because nowadays there are a lot of parents which doesn’t involve in the education of their children, they thing the education is an exclusive task of the school. In my opinion this proyect has been the most attractive and useful for me, because we are talking about many items, all of them very interesting for our future as teachers. I have learnt a lot of about it and I think all my colleagues have worked efficiently.
Congratulations everybody and happy ending of course!
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