sábado, 12 de abril de 2014

The Analyst is here!

          Hi followers, I am Lola and this week I am the analyst!


       What was the best part of the activity?


From my point of view, the best part of this activity is when we have presented our work. It is the time in which the entire group is together, already not problems or burdens arise us because the work is already finished.

I think it is the moment in which we are more relaxed and truly enjoy the activity together with the rest of our colleagues.

            What was the worse?

Although I have previously said that the best time of the activity is when we ended it, this week, at the same time, it has been one of the worst moments of the activity.  

This is because at the time of distributing our questions on each topic to the other groups, we did not have the questions about the 5 topic, and in addition, we had to value this topic without our questions. We were very nervous because we had rating us ourselves on a job that was not present at that time. In the end, everything was arranged and there was any problem.

     What was the best moment of the week (in the work of the group)?

The best moment of the week was in which we had made our questions, prepared and ready to be distributed to the rest of the groups.

 It was a moment in which, first of all, we were very nervous and with tension because we didn't know how to start the task this week, and then we realize that the work was finished and we felt happy and proud of this.

     What was the worse?

The worst moment, from my point of view is always when it comes to how we organize ourselves. This week we have  worked different. Each person had to do the questions about the topic that has been assigned. With this way of working, we have taken more time and everything was more effective. 

Subsequently, each one would have to explain the topic with the questions that she had done.
For this reason, the time to think how we could organize the activity and the day we can explain it was one of the most difficult and worse thing for the group.

          What have you learnt?


As I have said previously, the work was handed out and each one was "experts" of a different topic. For example, I was the expert in the topic 1 “An Overview of the Educational System”.
As then we had to explain to the group what they had learned on this topic.

We have learned a lot of thing about this, and the most important thing is that we know how we can explain a theme in English and the rest of the group understand it perfectly.

I want to say that we have had to put in the role of a teacher and be exposed to questions and doubts that may arise. This was for us an enriching part of the activity.

It is important to say that we have learnt to evaluate the work of the other group and evaluate our work too, and this I think that it is fundamental if we want to be excellent teachers.

              What do you need to conserve-as a group- for the next weeks?

I believe that it is necessary to always keep the desire to work and encouragement that all we give to other.

For this reason, I think that if we use the effort, the enthusiasm and the desire for doing a great work, we will get to be excellent and professional teachers.

All things that I said before, we have learnt in this course, and especially in this subject.
Anyone can be perfect. We have doubts, questions, complications… that we have to resolve and continue working in these things.

At this time, I know that we are a group because we help each other.

So…Come on and use your effort and desire for doing a great work!

         What do you need to improve- as a group- for the next weeks?

We have to improve the organisation of the group, and probably we must to take advantage of the time.

My group spent a lot of time thinking in all activities
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And I think that we have time for doing everything so… come on C´mon Tutankamon!

It is necessary to improve the organisation of the work because… we can do a incredible work in less time. And If we do this, we will have time to review the work many times, because this it is very important!

   How this content is related to other contents in the course and in your degree?

Firstly, it is important to say that we are studying a degree of Primary Education and for this reason the law of the education is always present in our work.

In many subjects, for example in the first semester in the subject “Planificación de la Acción Educativa”, we studied the curriculum and the competences.

Now, in this second semester, in subjects like “Acción Tutorial” we studied the LOE and LOMCE law, above all in the tutor paper.

And finally, in this subject and especially in this moment, we are studying these laws in different contexts.

To sum up, It is very important the contents of these laws because, you must know the functions that you have to have in each situation in your future work.

          There is any evident social connection of this content (new, politics, etc)?

Each topic that we have to studied, we must to relation and see the differences between LOE and LOMCE.

As everyone know, we had had different laws in a short period of time, and this is because when a different political party win the election they consider that they must change the law. This is a big problem!

The education need time, dedication and effort.

It is important to always improve the education, but the differences between the two political parties have to be separate, above all in this ambit. These differences and these changes are harmful to us.


Education is of all and for all!

jueves, 10 de abril de 2014

Come on, everyone to play!

Here you can see the 32 questions about the topic 5.

Give me 7

-The subject “Conocimiento del medio”, how does it change with new law, LOMCE?

-The head teacher of a school has retired and another must be appointed. There is a teacher at school with 4 years experience and he has the trainining course on the development of the management function. Could he be a candidate?

-The parent of a student assaults a teacher in a public school. What might be the implications according to LOMCE?

- If a child, who studied the subject of Religion for several years, changes school and wants to continue studying this subject, but the new have to study Civic and Social Values or has the school to offer the subject of Religion?

Brain storming

-Regarding to the secondary education private centres, who is responsible to promote the curricular specialization?

-Why are educational centres losing their democratic management with the LOMCE?

-What are the student´s rights as defined at LOMCE?

- In relation to interim staff, who is responsible for the management of their contracts? What is the criteria to contract/maintain interim staff and requisites for their selection?

T8T

-If you happens to be an interim teacher in a School and your time there is over… Is there any possibility that you stay at that school?

-What does it mean “curricular specialisation”? Is it going to be run in Primary schools?

-If you were an interim teacher who is part of the general list, what  would be the limitations that LOMCE introduces to choose a school to work in?

-What does “the school development plan include” Name at least 4 items.

The little Ants

- If you were teacher of the educational institution, could you summarize the school development plan?

-What does the school development plan of the educational institution includes and what are the values in which it is based?

-As for funding of Educational Authorities we can say that they may be bigger in specific case, what case is it?

-What the educational administration do at the beginning of each course?

Step by step

- In the pedagogical and curricular organization education has to be supported by…

-Can a school choose all the materials and resources they want?

-What is the aim of having coordination between the primary education curriculum and the secondary education curriculum?

-What are the divisions of the sections in the educational framework?

Hide and seek

-In relation with the economic management made by public educational institution, have they complete autonomy to manage?

-The school has set of rules, which are they?

-What competences related to the educational is assumed by the municipalities?

-In what three areas is where the educational institutions enjoy a wide degree of autonomy?

The teachleaders

-What are some of the School board´s functions?

-What are the bodies that promote the participation of the students in the university life?

-Which areas can we distinguish in educational institution?

-What are some of the functions of the municipalities in the administration and governance at local level?

Educational Rush Hour

- Which are the main items of the educational project and where are included?

-Which is the annual general procedure of each school according to organizational management?

- The main changes from LOE to LOMCE in each section are…

-Which are the different section of Administration and Governance at Local and/or Institutional Level I and what they talk about?

Cmon Tutankamon

- What are the three main aspects of the management resources? Can a school get additional resources when it need? How?

-An educational institution is going to prepare its school development plan. What section must be included in? Are there any differences among the actual and the previous law?
 Explain them.

-A new teacher has arrived to a school legislated by the LOMCE, the current law. Is he or she involved in the organizational management of the school? Justify your answer and say how his involvement is.



-What a school development plan is formed by? What does it promote?

Translator, here I go!

Hi followers, here you have some concepts that will clarify you the topic.


School Board: a group of people who are elected to make decisions about how to manage a school, leads the educational policy in each centre and it  comprise a representations of teachers, parents, students, staff and services administration. 

Pedagogical Coordination Commission: It is formed by the heads of department, along with management charges. This commission guides the teaching work in the center. 

Interim: is a person who is filling an official role temporarily. Normally, when the normal person is temporarily unable to do it and somebody else must fill in temporarily or without following the ordinary protocol.


Publicly funded private school:  is a school that is owned or operated by a private person, firm, association, organization, or corporation, rather than by a public agency but they received money from the Goverment.

Competence: A cluster of abilities, knowledge and skills that enable a person to act effectively in a situation. It indicates sufficiency of knowledge and skills that enable someone to act in a wide variety of situations.

miércoles, 2 de abril de 2014

Curator- farmers

Hi bloggers! We are Alba and Marina, and this week we have been curator-farmers. We have recopilate all the information we have used for this week and we have put it like every week in our pearltress.

Here you have our pearltress:


And also the references that are also in the pearltress:

REFERENCES

Euripedia, European Encyclopaedia on National Education System (2013) Organization of Primary Education. Obtained:


Federación de Enseñanza de Comisiones obreras, Gabinete Jurídico (2013) Tabla comparativa LOMCE-LOE. Obtained:


Tiana Ferrer, Alejandro (2012) Los motivos de las leyes. Comparación LOE LOMCE. Diferencias. Opiniones. Opinión general sobre los preámbulos. Obtained:

Boletín Oficial del Estado (Diciembre, 2013) Num 295. Obtained:

Por otra política educativa. El desarrollo de la LOMCE. Blog de WordPress.com. Obtained: http://porotrapoliticaeducativa.org/el-desarrollo-de-la-lomce/

Euripedia, European Encyclopaedia on National Education System (2013) Administration and Governance at Local and/or Institutional Level II . Obtained:
https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/fpfis/mwikis/eurydice/index.php/Spain:Administration_and_Governance_at_Local_and/or_Institutional_Level


martes, 1 de abril de 2014

I am a journalist!

Hi! I’m Miriam Gamuz and this week  I’ve been… A JOURNALIST!!

I'm going to tell you how our week has passed:

First of all, Linda explained us the task we had to do this week.  The task is about how is organized our educational system, it seemed very interesting because  we must know it for our future as a teacher.

 Linda explained the different steps that the task it’s divided. And this week we started with the first step, we have to do two mind maps with the topics that we had: Organization of Primary Education (Geographical accessibility, Admission requirements and choice of school,  age levels and grouping of pupils, organization of the school year)  and Administration and Governance at Local and/or Institutional Level (II) (Governance at educational institutions level , non-university institutions , the Leadership Team , collegial governing bodies , teaching coordination bodies , participation bodies) .

For this, we have to look in the different links Linda had uploaded for searching the information, and then we have to compare the last law (LOE) and the law we have now (LOMCE) and put the differences in the mind map. At first, we were a bit afraid because there was a lot of content, we had to use another program that was new for us, we had to compare the two laws and it wasn’t an easy work because there were very similar… and we must do it until Monday!!!

So, we started to work at the very beginning of the week for have enough time to do all we wanted to do.  We began to do a summarize of the contents, for knowing what it was the most important and what concepts we should put on the mind map, meanwhile,  others were looking for what  mind map’s program was the best for us. So each one had their role and this afforded us to go quicker! We know how to work as a group!! 




When we arrived to class on Monday morning, Linda asked us another task, we have to reviewed   and unified the different mind maps we had of the same topic and create a new one. The group T8T had to helped us to do a part of our mind map although they didn’t work about this topic so it was a bit difficult for their but, nevertheless, they tried to do the best they could do.


And we began to read all the mind maps and we could compare the different programs the other groups have used and chose the one that we thought would be the best to do a good mind maps with all the important concepts, but we had to work fast because we needed it for the next day!


















We worked very hard until we finished the best mind map, so we hope that people like it and consider it useful to study.






Also, I've been looking on my partners' blog and I comment in some of them:





I comment in a blog of a physycal education teacher that I think he is doing a lot of good activities tu stimulate children to do sport.


So… This is the story of our week! We have a lot of expectations with this game and we will put all our enthusiasm for win it! C’mon!! tutankamon!!!!






This week, I am the translator!!

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      Hellou, I am Lola and this week I am the translator... so I have collected the five most important terms that has been learnt on the week, and also I have to include the definition of each concept.

The five terms that I have selected are the following:


              A mind map: is a diagram used to visually outline information. A mind map is often created around a single word or text, placed in the centre, to which associated ideas, words and concepts are added. Major categories radiate from a central node, and lesser categories are sub-branches of larger branches. Categories can represent wordsideastasks, or other items related to a central key word or idea.

         Mind maps can be drawn by hand, either as "rough notes" during a lecture or meeting, for example, or as higher quality pictures when more time is available. An example of a rough mind map is illustrated.

         Mind maps are considered to be a type of spider diagram. A similar concept in the 1970s was "idea sun bursting"

           Education: in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research. Education frequently takes place under the guidance of others, but may also be autodidactic. Any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts may be considered educational. Education is commonly divided into stages such as preschool, primary school, secondary school and then college, university or apprenticeship.

         A right to education has been recognized by some governments. At the global level, Article 13 of the United Nations' 1966 International Covention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights recognises the right of everyone to an education. 

         Although education is compulsory in most places up to a certain age, attendance at school often isn't, and a minority of parents choose home-schooling, e-learning or similar for their children.

         Teaching- staff meeting: It is the body of all the teachers who provide educational services at the Centre where they are. We can consider it as a tecnical-pedagogical body which plans, coordinates, decides, advises and assesses on all educational activities that are undertaken within the school. Its main function is  the teaching of all learners incorporated into the Centre.
          The management team is responsible for convening  the teachers´ staff meeting in writing, including the issues to be discussed in the order of the day.

         The Director of the Centre will be responsible for convening and chairing a meeting, especially the teachers faculty.

·              School Council: It is the name given to a collegiate institution whose functions extend to the control of the management of schools,  but given their higher level  issues, includes a large group  not strictly teachers, although their competence level differs according to countries in different educational systems.

          It tends to be made up of members of the management of the property (in the case of private establishments), director, head of studies, and the various sectors involved: representatives chosen by teachers, students, parents of students and non- faculty staff (administration and services), in different proportions.




          Law is a term which does not have a universally accepted definition,  but one definition is that law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behaviour. Laws can be made by legislatures through legislation , the executive through decrees and regulations, or judges through binding precedents. Private individuals can create legally binding contracts, including  arbitration agreements that exclude the normal court process. 
          The formation of laws themselves may be influenced by a constitution  and the rights encoded therein. The law shapes politicseconomics, and society in various ways and serves as a mediator of relations between people.



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