If I say the word formation, what does it suggest to you?
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2025 5:18 am
"Online training is more thought-provoking"
- I particularly liked a project you developed in class, "Arde Galicia", where through a mural, children understood the situation of the fires that occurred last year in that area. Do you think this method could be applied to other important issues?
- Project-based learning is exactly that. Instead of working according to the book and reading all the bibliography and memorizing, we focus on understanding the data and getting to know the reality through research. I also saw that the children were very interested in the subject, so I proposed this project to make them think. I could have explained this to them through the syllabus, looking at what deforestation is, the consequences of fires, etc.
I think that teachers sometimes lack that pause, because we are always overwhelmed by the timing and the need to finish the whole book. In the end, the important thing is happening in front of us and we have missed it.
Through this project we worked on chile phone data language because we made summaries. We also worked on mathematics, because the children were very interested in knowing, for example, where the fires were burning more, whether in Galicia or in León. We even made an exhibition! Families came to the centre and the children took their parents on a guided tour.
We realized that everything we were working on in the book could also be done by keeping the students engaged and motivated.
- The more training, the better quality. Even so, we have to take into account that the initial training we receive is insufficient. In the educational field, teachers go out to teach having spent very little time in contact with the classroom. Fortunately, this is already changing.
The next step we are trying to achieve is to be allowed to attend classes with other teachers. For example, it would be interesting to be able to attend classes with a teacher who uses these active methodologies and learn from him. What we are going to learn in cooperation with other teachers is much more experimental than with any course.
- I particularly liked a project you developed in class, "Arde Galicia", where through a mural, children understood the situation of the fires that occurred last year in that area. Do you think this method could be applied to other important issues?
- Project-based learning is exactly that. Instead of working according to the book and reading all the bibliography and memorizing, we focus on understanding the data and getting to know the reality through research. I also saw that the children were very interested in the subject, so I proposed this project to make them think. I could have explained this to them through the syllabus, looking at what deforestation is, the consequences of fires, etc.
I think that teachers sometimes lack that pause, because we are always overwhelmed by the timing and the need to finish the whole book. In the end, the important thing is happening in front of us and we have missed it.
Through this project we worked on chile phone data language because we made summaries. We also worked on mathematics, because the children were very interested in knowing, for example, where the fires were burning more, whether in Galicia or in León. We even made an exhibition! Families came to the centre and the children took their parents on a guided tour.
We realized that everything we were working on in the book could also be done by keeping the students engaged and motivated.
- The more training, the better quality. Even so, we have to take into account that the initial training we receive is insufficient. In the educational field, teachers go out to teach having spent very little time in contact with the classroom. Fortunately, this is already changing.
The next step we are trying to achieve is to be allowed to attend classes with other teachers. For example, it would be interesting to be able to attend classes with a teacher who uses these active methodologies and learn from him. What we are going to learn in cooperation with other teachers is much more experimental than with any course.