MY WORK AS ONE OF THE STARS

Hello! Dear bloggers, I'm María José Gómez Gracia and this week I have the role of star with my colleague Carmen González. 

On Thursday we had organized into groups to review and grade other groups questions about one of the topics. 


The group ''T8T'' and our group'' Hide & Seek'' had been the responsible for the supervision of 36 questions about the topic 3 ''Organisation of Primary Education'' for "Changes in The Spanish Educational System Overview: The Game".

The questions are the following:

HIDE & SEEK

• What are the main objectives of the Territorial Cooperation Programme?
• How many hours does a primary kid recieve per week and how can the sessions be divided?
• Which are the age levels and grouping pupils?
• What kind of things do you have to keep in mind if there are insufficient places for the admission of students?

BRAINSTORMING

• Why are educational centers losing their democratic management with the LOMCE?
• In relation to interim staff, who is responsible for the management of their contracts? What is the criteria to contract/maintein interim staff and requisites for their section?
• Regarding to the secondary education, private centers, who is responsible to promote the curricular specialization?
• What are the sutdents' rights as defined at LOMCE?

C'MON TUTANKAMON!

• There is a city that decided to have more holidays in their schools at Easter. They have 3 days more than others. Then, are there some free days left the centre can put during the year? How many are them?
• Keely is a girl who lives in a rural area a few kilometers from London, in this area the most part of the neighborhood has inequalities derived from geographical, social and economic aspects. What education authorities must do according to the article Organizational variations and alternative structures in Primary Education?
• Lucy has been living in England since this year. This year, she has moved to Spain and wants to enter in a Primary school Education. Which would be her weekly timetable?
• Derek is a boy who lives in Orihuela, he is 6 years and his parents want him to start Primary Education in Santo Domingo, a private school near their house where his older brother is. Jane is a girl who has specific educational needs, she lives in Redovan and she is 6 years old. She also wants to enter at Santo Domingo's school this year. Santo Domingo has insufficient places this year so they have to choose one of them... Who will start this year at Santo Domingo? Jane or Derek?

EDUCATION RUSH HOUR

• How many holiday weeks do the school year have?
• What are the aspects that we have to consider when planning the education provision in a specific geographical area?
• If a public school doesn't offer enough places, what are the criteria to access it?
• If you were a teacher and you noticed that some of your students have more difficulties to execute the tasks than other, would you make two different groups?

GIVE ME 7

• What are the studies that now make up the Basic Education?
• What is the name of the subject that replaces "Civic Education"?
• Which are the core subjects in Primary Education?
• A student who repeated 4th grade of primary education hasn't achieved the goals at the end of 5th grade. Will he have to repear course? Why?

STEP BY STEP

• According to the Admission of students, based on the principles of equity and quality on LOE and LOMCE, who are the first group to get vacancy?
• A child from Africa, who has difficulties, is adopted by a wealthy family. They have decided to inscribe him in a private school. Could this child access to a public school if his parents had requested it?
• During what period of time must children acquire basic competences? What happened if they do not acquire them?
• If a family live at the countryside, half an hour far from the school, are the LOE and LOMCE bring assistance?

T8T

• Which are the main measures that the education authorities has to carry out if a student cannot access to the school due to his geographic area?
• According to LOMCE, in the admission of processes in Primary Schools, when there are not enough places, have preference those students who come from Primary Schools that have attached. In addition to this, what students also have priority?
• Which aspects have to be considered in the planning of the education provision in the two specific geographical areas?
• Autonomous Communities must regulate pupils' admission to public schools. Should the also regulate it for other schools that are publicly-funded private schools? Why?

THE LITTLE ANTS

• How has been distributed the organization of the school stage with the implementation of the LOMCE after LOE?
• If we are working in a public school and there aren't enough places, what criteria you have to take into account to select students?
• If you were in a rural area school, in what aspects would depend the number of pupils in your school?
• The organization of the school year has a fixed number of school days? 

THE TEACHLEADERS

• Taking into account the geographical accessibility, what should we pay important attention to?
• Imagine that you want your son to be admitted in a school and the school head is taking into account if your son has siblings already registered in the school? Why do they do that?
• How are class groups made?
• Imagine that you are the principal of a school and you are the one who have the power to admit students. In which way would you do so?

Star's Post

Hi bloggers! I'm Carmen and I've been one of the stars this time. 

This week we have worked on building four questions (and their answers) for each topic. Then, every group had to revise and grade the questions made by other groups about one of the topics. We split in two groups and supervised the work of Brainstorming and T8T. 

These are the 36 questions about the topic 6 "Administration and Governance at Local and/or Institutional Level II" for "Changes in The Spanish Educational System Overview: The Game", revised and graded by Brainstorming and Hide & Seek.

HIDE & SEEK

• What happens in the case of absence of centre candidates?
• Who is governing board made up of?
• Who chairs the staff-meeting? Do all the teachers get involved on it?
• Is it necessary to be Director to hold any kind of certification or credential? If yes, which one?

BRAINSTORMING

• Be headmistress or a headmaster need to have specific and complementary studies at her or his degree? Or can any teacher be a headmaster?
• Will the headmaster decide about the students' admission? How?
• In a primary school, can the students be members of the school board?
• Regarding the school autonomy, educational administrations have the freedom to create work plans outside of their curriculum. So, could these plans affect students in their titles obtention?

C'MON TUTANKAMON!

• Talking about the Teaching Coordination Bodies, compare this body in Primary Education and Secondary Education.
• With the new law LOMCE one of the collegial bodies has lost power to decide about important issues. Analyse which issues we are talking about and the implications of this.
• You passed the public examination and it is your 7th year as a teacher in a Primary School in Lorca, you are also the coordinator of your cycle, in which bodies are you involved?
• María is a teacher in 4th grade in a Primary School in Santomera, she is the teacher of Pedro. Pedro is a boy that has lot of problems with Maths when María proposes the activities that imply using multiplications he cannot do them. Can María make by her own adaptations of the curriculum for his student Pedro? If the answer is negative, who has to do it?

EDUCATION RUSH HOUR

• Can you explain briefly what a School Board is and some main functions of it?
• Why Participation Bodies are created? Do you know which are the three channels created for students?
• When Non-University Institutions began to be autonomous and what are their principal areas of autonomy?
• According to the model decentralised State and the share of Education competences between Statement institutions and Educational institutions, think about the curriculum and explain these different set of levels of application.

  

GIVE ME 7

• If a student resides in a rural area and must move to another nearby town to go to school, who will pay the transportation costs, school meals and boarding?
• I am a father of a child in a state school. Can I take form part of the Board of Education?
• What happened with the approval of the LOMCE regarding the functions of the Board of Education?
• A problematic child wants to enter a school, who is the person who takes the decision of saying no to this if it is necessary?

STEP BY STEP

• What is the main difference between individual and collegial bodies?
• Can the parents participate in the teacher assembly? Where they can participate?
• In a primary school, can a teacher choose the components of class representative?
• What is the individual body public school division?

T8T

• If there are some students with learning difficulties in your class, which body can give solutions and who is it formed by?
• What is the roll of the school board modified by the LOMCE?
• In relation to school administration and according to LOMCE, could you tell what the main pillars to promote "Quality Education" are? Name at least four of them.
• Who prepares and approves the School Development Plan? Has it suffered any change with the LOMCE?

THE LITTLE ANTS

• What are the main functions of the class representative?
• Regarding the curriculum, is more autonomous public or a public-funded private school?
• Is any parent part of the Leadership Team in schools?
• What is the common teaching coordination body in pre-primary/primary education and secondary education?

THE TEACHLEADERS

• If you are a class teacher in Primary School, what is your function?
• If you are a parent and you want to participate in your child's school, how would you do?
• The team of teachers in Secondary Education schools has some duties. What are those duties?
• The collegial school bodies are two: the School Board and the Teachers Assembly. What is the difference between them?

   

  

 

Star of LOMCE Mind Map

Hello audience!

This week, I have been the star of my group.

Last Monday, all the class examined the different minds map in Groups. Each group revised one topic.

In the case of my group, we revised the topic 3 about Organization of Primary Education with one part of the Little Ants group. We were considered if the map had a clear structure with connectors, if it was easy of understand…

We had C’mon Tutankamon, Little ants and Hide&Seek maps. We considered that all of them were good done.

As I didn’t explain my map, I am going to do a little summarize about it.

Organization of Primary School from hideandseek

 Our Mind map is about Organization of Primary Education.

We can find 4 parts: Admission requirements and choice of school, age levels and grouping pupils, organization of school year and geographical accessibility.

In the part of Admission requirements and choice of school, we can find information about the way in that school carry out the admission of pupils. It is important that school have got the admission in equality and freedom terms. If there are insufficient places, they taking in account some features about the family of the child as if they are a large family, if the child has got his brothers in this school…

It treats to have a balanced in the admission of students. It keeps in mind the economic, demographic, personal and family conditions. It is compulsory the schooling in the same school during the compulsory education and it usually have some places to pupils with specific needs.

The process of students’ admission is the same for public and private school and they usually have committees that oversee the admission process.

 When we talk about "Age levels and grouping pupils” we are discussing how students are divided in groups and the different levels that there are according to the age. There are six courses that the students have to pass in primary education according to the LOMCE. Each course is based on the year of birth of the student. They usually start primary education when they're six and they finish with twelve years old. It's important to pay attention to student diversity, because there are a lot of pupils with problems and disabilities, so the teacher will have to reforce this type of complications. They will pass the course if they acquire the main competences: numeracy, culture, to know working in groups, learning expression and listening, reading and writing and creativity. If they don't, they'll repeat the course once.

The educational administrations are responsible for annually establishing the school year, where the minimum of school days is 175.

The Geograpical Accesibility is a working criterion solution research which make possible the equality of opportunities giving special importance to:

• Territorial Depopulation
• Geographical Dispersion
• Insularity
• Specific Rural/ Urban Areas necessities

Furthermore there are, in Rural Areas, two practical cases in Spain:

• C.R.A= Colegio Rural Agrupado in Teruel
• C.R.I.E= Centro Rural de Innovación Educativa in Cantabria

As well as in Urban Areas is important:

• Birth Rate
• Foreing pupils
• Growth of population in Emerging Areas.

Here, I am going to put the mental map we made with all maps of the same topic (Topic 3)

Star

Here you have our summary of the first part of the subject! This week I have been the star and I have really enjoyed the experience because we have marked the videos like if we were on "Eurovision".

My experience as a Star!

Hey bloggers!! María and me, Cristina F. have been the stars this week and it has been a great experience!
We have been preparing our exposition some days before so we have been ready for days! We couldn't expose our work on thursday because of  time and the visit of Mercedes on Monday, who taught us many interesting things :). Firstly, I wasn't nervous because I knew I had prepared my exposition, but then I thought that I would have a heart attack!!! :(. But the result has been good and my classmates have enjoyed it. María and me have laughed a lot!!

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THE STAR: MARÍA JOSÉ GÓMEZ

Hello! I am María José Gómez and this week I have been the Star of my group with my colleague Carmen González.

I loved this work, the topic that we chose for our work this week is very interesting and entertaining, it is about "Greek mythology". I enjoyed doing the show, I must say that I was very nervous at first but that is normal, once I started the nerves were removed and both, my partner and I enjoyed a lot while we explained to all the class about Greek gods and the myth of Hades and Persephone.

Certainly, my experience as Star has been fantastic and I hope that the next time this experience can be equal or better than this one.

Working as star

Hi bloggers! I'm Carmen and I've been one of the stars during this week

MY EXPERIENCE AS STAR.

Dear bloggers!

This week I have been the star of my group. I think that it have been interesting because in the exposition of this practique we have organized in roles groups and each group should told us the different part of the work: Treasure hunt, distortion in media, cartographic projections... At the beginning to do this activity was a bit difficult but a few minutes after, we could organize without problems with members of other group  and I think that the result of the expositions were fine. 

With the use of this new exposure method we have seen the perspective and opinion of other groups. It help us to learn about tools used by our partners in their exposure.

The class of today shows that we can work so well together if we put interest.

“Your actions speak louder than words”

- Danielle Cater.

I HAVE LOVED BEING A STAR!!

Hello dear readers! It´s me again :)
Well... this week I have been... a STAR!!! I was so nervous with the role I had this week, because this week´s task was a bit difficult. A star has to show all the class all the work we have done during the week. We only have 6 minutes so it is hard because you have to explain all the information you have found and all the work you have done.
When we arrived to class our teacher Linda said to us that it was going to be different... all the stars were going to do a ten minute presentation together!!! At the start I did not understand this point very well but when we started working on it I noticed that we were doing team work, which I think is something all teachers have to do during their lives. It was great because in just 40 minutes or so we all got well organized and in my opinnion we did a very good job! And it was the first time for us to do something like this... it was like solving a problem we were not expecting.
I am so happy I have been one of the stars this week, because we did something different, something unique... I actually loved it! in only a few minutes we discused a little bit and organized the presentation. Every single one of us (stars) said at least one phrase for example I explained that the Mercator Projection is the most used when teaching and that this is wrong because it the one that has the most distorsions. I really think that is proper team work.

So... I just wanted to say to the next stars that it is a good experience and that you learn quite a lot so... go ahead and do your best! :D
See you next week bloggers!

Cristina Gil Gargan A.K.A. Criss

Hi! I am Ana Cristina and this week I have been one of the stars :).
After several days of good and hard work, today I have exposed the TPACK model with Rosa. At first, I have been nervous because I don´t like to speak in front of people, but finally I have realised that repeating it for 10 times has been great to understand it. I think it is a good way of studying... great job group!! We did it! :)

Hello! I’m Rosa! This first week, breaking the ice, I have been one of the stars of my group. I have really enjoyed the experience because it was a nice topic easy to explain. I hardly ever get nervous when I have to present a topic to the class; in this case, whit small groups, it has been even more relaxed.    
          

Furthermore, I think that this activity has not only been good for the stars, which have learned the TPACK perfectly, but also for the rest of my classmates who, after ten times listening to it, have finally understand it.