I think that the maino bjective of this activity was to develop a set of topics in common in order to the undestanding of the theme but appreciete how important this is to our future work as teachers, because we will have to develop activities with people we don't know and maybe we don't like too much.
This is called 'Cooperative learning', where we learn ones to each other, sharing information and helping so we all can arrieve to the final copnsclusion by the methodology we consider interesting.
This is called 'Cooperative learning', where we learn ones to each other, sharing information and helping so we all can arrieve to the final copnsclusion by the methodology we consider interesting.
The procedure followed the next course: We were divided into groups, so the mates we were with were not selected by us, and that liked me, because sometimes I consider necessary to develop activities with people not chosen by you. Then we were given four topics to develop to the whole class:
- Guidance and Counseling in Early Childhood
- Guidance and Counseling in Higher Education
- Guidance and Counseling in a Lifelong Learning Approach
- Support Measures for Learners in Adult Education and Training
All of them, although it does not appear, were focused in Spain.
And ours was the firt one, 'Guidance and Counseling in Early Childhood'.
We were also divided in parts of content of the topic, and remove by creating new groups formed by the other mate who had the same parts. Put it in common an again go back to the initial group, so each of us, having read and understand his or her part can share to the rest of the group the information so all the members have the same knowledge about the topic and can develop it in the ‘exam’ we had to do in order to see if the ideas have been acquired.
But not all the information was given and developed in class. We also had to search for more information at home complementing the given one, supposing that this would give us more security about the topic and its late presentation to the mates.
This activity I think was a bit confusing
because was a little non-controlled, so everyone tried to develop his or her
topic basin only in the papers give and then to the complement information at
home. I liked also the part of working in groups and mixing all the members of
the class, because we can see different opinions about what did they think to
their papers. But finally, the little decontrol of the beginning turned to an
organized activity in which each knew what did we had to do.