Ours was the 'Support Measures for learners in Early Childhood and School Education' topic, and we had the support of the teacher and the different resources with which we could count of, like Ethernet for example as one of the most important in the research of information.
Once the information was all relater, developed and learnt by all the components of the group, we decided this time to make a PowerPoint presentation instead of a 'Prezi', just to change the main dynamic of the class.
We wanted to make first this presentation because we consider necessary an introduction to the theme instead of starting directly with the activity, because in most cases people can’t follow the information in a fluent way if this has not being explained before. The class run the following procedure:
- At first the presentation by dividing the theme into four different parts which were what we had to present, each of us. But all of us knew the whole theme.
- The second activity was more dynamic, mostly fot the rest of the class. We developed an activity in which our mates should were given a number and by this number they positioned in groups. Then, having these two groups, we divided them again into two bigger groups consisting in all the little ones. The idea here was that, if they have attended to our explanation of how the different measures are distributed in school, they had to create in common three questions about the topic, and ask one group to another making an eliminatory of those who don’t know what or how to answer.
- And finally, our last activity was to, once the quiz finished, expose some cases and ask to our mate which type of measures they would use to solve the different problems presented by applying the knowledge that should have been acquired during the presentation. A positive point in this last part is that we didn’t consider it as a competition, so they don’t feel the pressure of being better than the others and so simply try to solve the cases considering always as the most important point the well-being of the children.
These was some of the cases we used:
‘Marisa is 8 years old and she has got the “Aspergen Sindrome”, she has got difficulties making friends’
‘Mike’s parents have discussions frequently and her sister plays the fagot, so he cannot bring his homework on time’
‘Felix parents cannot take him to the school because they have to work when it starts’
This activity has been very interesting for me because gave me the opportunity to think and develop a set of information transmission and activities in order to made my mates comprehend the difficulty of the educational world and what it involves.