Manel Rives

Hello bloggers

This week we have had a visit from two role models in our future as education professionals and integrators of the technology and its uses. On Monday we had a visit from Manel Rives.

This teacher with over 20 years experience, who has exercised his teaching in Galicia with primary school students but now he is located in Cartagena (Murcia) in the IES Polytechnic Institute as a teacher of scientific and socio-mathematical field for occupational class .

In addition to all his teaching career, Manel speaks three languages​​, Castilian, English and Galician.

Manel has been immersed in numerous projects related to technology specifically with the use of the Ipads.

Manel has been and is immersed in the world of new technologies and using these in the classroom with students. He has been working with many projects. This past Monday told us an experience that he had had with his last grade of primary. They made a web, a kind of radio, which was active for a year, this site had a lot of visits and won numerous awards.

We were surprised that he had told us, because with children as young as he was able to take a project forward which requires daily dedication of everyone and be constant

After class he proposed us some activities with his tablets besides he was five Ipads which one he borrowed us . He gave the name of various applications and we had to investigate each and every one of them and determine what we liked and how we would use and why. Our example was the application Stopmotion .We would give children a theme and they developed through snapshots. Our theme was water exchange , ie the transition from one state to another , so the children would have to show these processes in photos that would rise to the application and reproduce as a kind of film.

In summarized it has been a very useful class and we are very grateful for the visit of this example in teaching. Tomorrow Jane Challinor  will visit us, and we will inform us about her visit .

Thank you very much for your attention.

Questions about topic 2.

Hi everyone! 
I´m Cristina Sáez, and i´m the star this week! On Thursday each group had to present thirty-two cards with the most important questions about the six topics that we are working. Then, we qualified the cards and selected the best eight of each topic. Step by Step with The teachleaders went specialists and supervisors about the topic two. These are the questions about the topic:

Hide anda seek.
1.- What kind of schools can provide Primary Schools?
2.- How many assessments does the new Education Policy establish on the individualized evaluation?
3.-Which are the age levels and grouping pupils in the Primary School?
4.- What does the Education Policy establish on the use of ICT in the teaching-learning process?

Give me seven.
1.-A cooperative wants to build a publicly-funded private schools in respect to the terrain, what options has the cooperative?
2.-A student has passed all the subjects of 6th grade of Primary Education. However, he has failed the diagnostic's test. Can this student move on to Secondary Education?
3.-As we all know new technologies surround our learning environment. Many schools have opted to incorporate these ICT resources, but who offers these digital and technology platforms?
4.-A student requests to study in the Castilian language in Catalonia. However, in his state school and nearby schools, the Castilian is not taught. What solution does the Goverment propose?

C'mon Tutankamon
1.- We, as a teachers, what must we do at the 3rd course of Primary Education to check if our students already have the basic skills. Explain it. O,;
2.- Is there some Education Policy referring to the use of technology? Tell su what the present law said.jvm,k
3.- Could you tell me some aims/general objectives of Primary Schools related with  the respect for others?
4.- How many courses has Primary Education? Please tell me some of the purposes of skills (not aims/general objectives) they must have at the end of Primary Education.

BrainStorming
1.-What's the only thing the LOMCE added to the objectives in Primary Education, according to the entrepeneurship?
2.-How is the Primary Education divided by the LOE, and by the LOMCE?
3.- What is the LOMCE adding about ICT's?
4.-What are the foreing languages denomination changes according to LOMCE?

The Little Ants
1.-Within the educational Policy in the Primary School, how is evaluated the mastery of skills?
2.-If you were a teacher of a group in third course of Primary Education according to the LOMCE and once of the students do not reach the basic skills, how would you solve it?
3.-As a teacher, what kind of assistance the Ministry of Education can give to you?
4.- There is univocal relationship between the teaching of some subjects and the development of certain competences?

The Teacherleaders.
1.- What is the purpose of the general objectives that the LOE provided?
2.- What are developed the priority aspects of the Spanish Educational Policy  regarding Primary Education?
3.-Could a private or public  school choose the name of the School?
4.-We know that the basic competences are essental in the development of the pupils but, all of thoses basic competences are related one with each other?

Education Rush Hour.
1.-Mark is an eight-years oled children. He has already finished third grade but he hasn't acquired the basic skills. Who has to decide about his future and what that person has to do?
2.- What have Educational Administrations to do if they want to build private schools over public land?
3.- Primary Education is from 6 to 12 years old, but what are its structure?
4.-Basic competences are necessary in order to...

T8T
1.- What are the differences in the Primary Education organization between the LOE and LOMCE?
2.-What is the difference between LOE and LOMCE referring to the time that a teacher has to be tutor of a concrete group?
3.-According to the LOMCE, what teachings form part of the basic education? Do you observe any difference from the LOE?
4.- Which changes have the different Primary Education subjects experimented from LOE to LOMCE?

Step by Step
1.- In which course a child with specific disabilities is going to be assisted? What happen if the specific assessments for these children fail?
2.-As a teacher, what do you and the Ministry of Education should to investigate and promote?
3.-In the Primary School, what can we do for adapt the working patterns of children?
4.-If you were a teacher, what shall we do if we have a student in class with several difficulties?

I hope that you find them useful! we will give an entertaining use soon.

Post made by Cristina Sáez. Star.

Curator-farmer

Hello everyone! I am Yolanda , the curator-farmer this week.
 As a curator farmer this week ,  I was very confused because there were not resources to put on my part of the pearltree. The last week we made the mind maps about "Changes in The Spanish Educational 
System Overview" and this week we have continue the actvity , preparing the game that we are going to do the next week , so we have been summarizying the most important question about each topic and then we have had to choose between all the questions just the most important to play the game  , reviewing the cards and preparing the game , so we have not use web pages or any resource to do it.
I have include in the pearltree the final conceptual maps that we have achieve mixing the most important ideas of the conceptual maps which corresponds to each group , and where we have found the most important aspects for making our questions.
This week  , in my group we have work all together searching the most important aspects of the education law , it has been a hard week and I think  we should  continue like that.
 Here it is our pearltree  , I hope you like it!


http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-u=1_1821383&N-fa=10681085&N-s=1_10681085&N-f=1_10681085&N-p=108486695

Discovering new concepts.

Hi everyone! I am Marta Saura, the translator of this week. Now we are developing a game based on the low (LOE and LOMCE) so the main concepts that we are working on it are very important to understand how the low works and what are its objectives.

I have selected these five important concepts:

     Bilingual school: It is a type of school where the program is based on the British curriculum. The subjects are in English and there are teacher specialised in this language. Nowadays, this type of school is developing so fast and many schools in Spain are changing their methodology. It is an interesting way to learn English for children since early ages.

.   Ministry of Education: Into the Spanish government there is a group which is in charge of education, culture and sport. This ministry concedes grants, supplies the technology to the schools and the material that they need. It is very important to develop the education in our country.

.   Distance Education: It is a modality of education in which you can study with the Spanish curriculum although you are in other country. Nowadays this modality is very important because there are a lot of people who have to move for work but they want to continue studying. There are some other variants that use distance education too and it is a big progress in the way of education.

.    Equality: Nowadays it is an important term in the world of education. On the one hand, it is one of the main objectives of the Spanish education system and on the other hand, it is one of the principles that the schools below the LOE and LOMCE, have to carry through in the admission of the students. One of the main purpose of the low is to provide a quality education with the same opportunities for all the students, without any discrimination.

     Evaluation: This term is use in each course of education (primary, secondary, university…) The main objective is to know what is the level of the students, therefore, there are personalized evaluations at the end of each academic course. In this point it is important to clarify that the evaluation is focus on how the students are acquiring the new competences because if they do not acquire them, as the low said, they have to repeat the course.

I hope that these concepts clarify the topics with the aim to a better understanding.

Post by the translator: Marta Saura Hernández.

Jane Challinor

Hi bloggers! 
This week has started with two amazing visits. On Monday Manel Rives came to our class and on Tuesday Jane Challinor was our guest.

I am going to talk about Jane Challinor and what we did with her in class. First of all, although she is English, she speaks a little bit of Spanish. Despite this, the session was in English.

She is a  teacher who works in Spain and she uses a lot new methodologies, tics and also she has a blog where she publish some activities and the visits that she does. Have a look to her blog and discover great activities; http://thevirtualleader.blogspot.com.es/

Four of our classmates presented Jane before she started the class and they told us interesting aspects about Jane`s life and the types of activities and so on that she had done.

At the beginning, Jane Challinor told us a lot of things related to education, the way to improve in this profession, how to motivate children and one of the most important aspect in this hard work; How to develop new technologies. She told us about her daughter, who is a primary teacher too. She showed us some applications to use and later, Jane and our teacher, tought us an application called: Pinterest . It is like a blog where you can found some photographs about many topics and share them in a main page. Other people can see your pictures and you can discover some of them related with the topic that you like or are interested. We think that it is a way to discover and looking for other type of information.

We are grateful to her visit because we have discovered new ways to develop a class in our future work.

Here you can see a photo of our class with Jane Challinor. 

We hope that you enjoy with our activities as the same as we have enjoyed with the visit of Jane Challinor. http://thevirtualleader.blogspot.com.es/p/about-me.html

Come on!

Hello Bloggers!

I return to tell you that there is a lot of information about the topic of Spanish education laws and how this situation is impacting us. 

here you have an example of excellent blogs that are responsible for keeping the population informed.

Together with them, we need to raise awareness that education is in our hands. we have to move and fight for our interests. Cuts in education can not afford, changes in education laws as the politicians like are not possible. Inform yourself and get active, do something for education!

Here you can begin to inform yourself, come on!

http://www.escuela20.com/lomce-debate-reforma-educativa/articulos-y-actualidad/dossier-de-prensa-y-blogs-la-lomce_3147_42_4651_0_1_in.html

Post made by the journalist, Cristina Sáez.

Journalist´s post.

Hi everyone!
 How start this week? I´m Cristina Saez, the journalist this week!
 These days we worked on the LOE and LOMCE and the result has been a clear idea about the organization of schools using a mind map.
The summary of the activities of Step by Step group this week is this:
First, we read the activity carefully, and I have to add that we did not understand very well our goal of the week, because of that we asked our doubts to Linda to clarify our ideas and to start our work.
We chose the program to work, Mindmeister, and we saw a tutorial to learning how to use it. 
Here we can see it, I hope you find it useful!

Then we  did a comprehensive reading on the items that Linda provided about the Loe and Lomce.
Focusing on our theme, we read the different items that you can see here:

About Loe and Lomce.
http://porotrapoliticaeducativa.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/a4-texto-loe-con-lomce-integrada.pdf

About Lomce.
http://porotrapoliticaeducativa.org/el-desarrollo-de-la-lomce/

About Organisational Variations and alternative structures In Primary Education
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Organisational_Variations_and_Alternative_Structures_in_Primary_Education

And about an overview of education in Spain. 
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Overview 

Our group was focused on An Overview of the Educational System, which is the first topic and the fourth which is Organisational Variations and Alternative Structures in Primary Education.

First we get the main ideas about the article related to schools organization and then we compared the changes going from loe to logse. For us, our final work was so clear and it summarizes the main ideas for understand both topics. You can see it on the post of our Stars, Mayka Vidal and Marta Saura. 

I hope this makes you think, education is in your hands

Post made by the journalist, Cristina Sáez.