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QUESTIONS FOR THE GAME

FINANCING ISSUES:

-In the case that you need a grant for assistance, for commuting to school, urban transport, board, school material and fee exemption. Also your family is low income and you haven't got an educational certificate. In addition, you have good marks. Which grant category will you get?


-Named the financing differences between private and public schools.


-Where has it source the total budget allocated to education in Spain?


-What do the Public educational institutions have to do communicate the organisation and use of their resources?


-How many types of subsidy arragements exist and what are their names?


-Who is in change of preparing the budget?


-A private school is free when…?


 -If your daughter studied in a centro concertado, where are the budget taken out for this education? 


-If a private school receives public funds only in some of their expenses, what type of educational agreements does it receive? 


 -Why LODE and LOE establish a system of subsidies with public funds to finance private schools?


-The nearest school of Ana’s house is 5km away and she has morning and afternoon classes. What is the minimum that State has to pay her?


 -What is the only level in education which you have to pay for it?


-Which three bodies have to participate in the elaboration of the annual budget in a public school?


-What are the duties of the “educational agreement”?


-Public spending is landmarked for public education for centros concertados and to finance scholler _______ and _________


-The total budget allocated to education in Spain has its source in public funds, regional and local authorities and…


-Which are the caracteristics that have to have a school to receive a general subsidy?


 -What is the region where there isn’t any grant?

SCHOOL TIMETABLE-GROUPS:

 -Your son is 7 years old (his birthday was in March and now it is April) In which educational stage is he? In which cyle is it? In which school year is he?


-In a primary class in general, in between what intervals would we find the number of pupils?


-Who determines and why teaching time in Spanish schools?


-Who is the response of setting the number of hours in each cycle and territory?


 -We have a primary class which has been established to have 23 students maximum. Why? 


 -What percentage of a timetable in a school represents the curriculum that the Automous Community of Murcia has to elaborate?


-How are allocated the school holidays?


-You are the head master of a school and you want to organize next tear weekly school timetable. Once it has been approved school management team, what will he/she has to do?


-You want to meet your son’s foreign language music and mathematics teacher, how many teachers will you meet?


-If you were a student who turned 10 in January, what year would you be in at school? How many years and cycles have you passed and how many have you got left to complete?


-In what way is the primary school timetable distributed both daily and weekly?


 -Which is the main criteria to form class groups?


-What do educational authorities of autonomous communities have to do with weekly timetables?


 -Which is the maximum number of pupil per group established by law for the Entire State? 


-Choose the correct statement:


A: the school year 2009/2010 comprises a minimum of 175 days distributed between the first for night of September and late June
B: the school year 2009/2010 comprises a maximum of 175 days distributed between the first for night of September and late June
C: the school year 2009/2010 comprises a minimum of 175 days distributed between the late September and the first fortnight of June


-The school class groups are normally formed arround age groups but, children can be grouped by another two criteria, which?


-Who approved the school weekly timetable?


-If you were a primary school teacher how many hours have you have to spend teaching?

NEW PRACTICE!

Back to the routine!

ROLES 4º WEEK

The roles for this week are:

• ·         Ainara: Facilitator
• ·         Elena: Star + tracker
• ·         Noelia: Analist
• ·         María: Journalist

Our Speech - Dark side of textbooks

MAKING OFF:

 The way that we thought to do our speech was, first we took a ladder and a clothesline and we put a cloth over this as this seems like a stand.

 Then took another cloth and we held with the closet doors and we set it like a background. And finally we put sheets with messages in the background as a subliminal message.

So we got something like that:

TRANSCRIPTION IN ENGLISH:

Ladies and gentlman welcome to the colour chameleon ladies company!

         I´m going to talk you about  the use of textbooks at schools.

         Nowadays is absurd using texbooks in the classroomss since we are in the new technologies age.  Textbooks have a lot of prblems. 


Children are given those books as they were a “Bible” and doing that, we transmit them the feeling that they must believe everything that they read but, insead of that, it´s essential for them to learn to search information and discriminate it. They must learn to contrast sources as well. 


Besides that, textbooks involve a great economic cost, the editorials have earnt 900 million of euros and produce a big waste of paper for the world contributing to the felling trees.

During my academic life I have seen a lot of times teachers criticizing textbooks because of the lack of contents, the mistakes in their pages or the exessive amount of topics that they have. However,  I have realized that teachers haven´t taken into account those problems in textbooks and they have decided using them. So, textbooks have been considerated, for some years, as a necessary and essential tool for teachers and editorials have oberved that, so textbooks have become on a business.

Then, since publishing companies decide the content of textbooks, making a curricular concretion, a certain pedagogical theory and certain didactics; they show that they are only interested on their business that influence on government learning politics, so teachers don´t choose the contents that transmit to their pupils.

In that case we can ask ourselves: who are editorials to decide learning of our pupils? , aren´t we able to do it after studing our degree ? so what have served all the hours that we have spent studing primary edcation for ?, if we are docile to textbooks , our job consists of read statement exercises and correct them with the textbooks key , unfortunately there are teachers who think by this way and they think about books as tools that can make them save them time, effort and hard working.

So this idea of textbooks implies a lack of professionalism of teachers. One of the solutions that we propose in order to change this situation is the possibility that teachers could decide which are the correct contents to transmit to their pupils.

Another conflict caused by textbooks is that those “bibles” contain some ideas that are transmited to children in order to turn them on a prototype of perfect pupil and the rest of children must be like this perfect pupil. This fact doesn´t take into account the student diversity in the classroom.

Textbooks are able to determine a certain way of understand the teaching and learning process. Then, new generations of teachers aren´t able to conceive a way of teaching without textbooks and they conceive them as a necessity.

In conclusion, and after reflecting about this issue i can assert: Yes, I imagine education without textbooks! And how alternative tool I suggest leaving textbooks and using ICT to prepare their classes in order to use their imagination and their experience to manage that children have curiosity and  learning wishes.

SO TEACHERS INNOVATE YOURSHELVES! 

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TRANSCRIPTION IN SPANISH: 

Señoras y señores, bienvenidos a la compañía “Camaleones de colores”
Voy a hablaros sobre el uso de los libros de texto en las escuelas.

Hoy en día es absurdo usar libros de texto en las aulas en la era de la tecnología.
Los libros de texto tienen muchos problemas. Se les dan a los niños como si en esos libros fueran una ‘Biblia’ y haciendo esto, les estamos transmitiendo la sensación de que deben de creer todo lo que ellos leen, pero además de esto es imprescindible para ellos que aprendan a buscar la información y a discriminarla. Deben de aprender a contrastar fuentes.

Además de esto, los libros de texto suponen un gran gasto económico importante, las editoriales han ganado 900 millones de euros, y producen un gran gasto económico de papel para el mundo contribuyendo así con la tala de árboles.

A lo largo de mi vida estudiantil he visto muchas veces profesores criticando los libros de texto por la falta de contenidos, los errores en sus hojas o por el excesivo temario que tienen. Sin embargo, me he dado cuenta de que los profesores no tienen en cuenta estos problemas en los libros de texto y deciden usarlos. 


Por lo que los libros de texto son considerados desde hace muchos años como una herramienta necesaria e imprescindible para los profesores y las editoriales han observado esto por lo que los libros de texto se han convertido en un negocio.

Entonces, las editoriales deciden el contenido de los libros, creando unas concreciones curriculares, una determinada teoría pedagógica y didácticas determinadas. Ellos están solamente interesados en su negocio que influye en las políticas educativas de los gobiernos, por lo que los profesores no eligen los contenidos que trasmiten a sus alumnos.

En este caso podemos preguntarnos a nosotros mismos: ¿Quiénes son las editoriales para decidir la enseñanza de nuestros alumnos? ¿no somos nosotros capaces de hacerlo después de estudiar nuestra carrera? Y entonces ¿para qué han servido todas las horas que nosotros hemos gastado estudiando educación primaria?. 


Si nosotros somos dóciles a los libros de texto, nuestro trabajo consiste entonces en leer el enunciado de los ejercicios y corregirlos con el libro de soluciones. Desafortunadamente hay profesores que piensan de esta manera y piensan sobre los libros de texto como una herramienta que les ahorra a ellos tiempo, esfuerzo y trabajo.

Por lo que esta idea de los libros de texto supone la falta de profesionalidad de los profesores. Una de las soluciones  que nosotras proponemos para cambiar esta situación es la posibilidad de que los maestros puedan decidir cuales son los contenidos correctos para transmitir a sus alumnos.

Otro conflicto causado por los libros de texto  es que estas “biblias” contienen muchas ideas las cuales son transmitidas a los niños con el fin de convertirlos en un prototipo de alumno ideal y el resto de los niños debe ser como este alumno perfecto. Este hecho no tiene en cuenta la diversidad de los alumnos en el aula.

Los libros de texto son capaces de determinar una única manera de entender el proceso enseñanza y aprendizaje. Entonces las nuevas generaciones de profesores no son capaces de concebir una manera de enseñanza sin libros de texto y ellos los conciben como una necesidad.

En conclusión y tras reflexionar sobre este tema, puedo afirmar:

 Sí, ¡imagino una educación sin libro de texto! 

Y como herramienta alternativa sugiero dejar los libros de texto a un lado y usar las TIC para preparar sus clases para así usar vuestra imaginación y vuestra experiencia para conseguir que los niños tengan deseos de la curiosidad y el aprendizaje

Por lo que profesores... ¡Innovaros!

OUR REFLECTION 3º WEEK

 OUR REFLECTION ABOUT THIS THIRD WEEK

Hello people! I’m María, the analyst this week.

I´m going to reflect about the activities done during this week.

·                     What was the best part of the activities?

The best part of the activity was planning how was to be the staging. Also preparing de scene for record. And at the end realize that the effort was worth it when we saw the results.

·                     What was the worse of the activities?

The worst of the activity was find the information and write what we would say in our speech. In addition, when we had to repeat some scenes many times. 

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

The best moment of the week was without doubt the moment of the recording because of we had a good time laughing because Ainara had to be into her role and this was very funny for us.

·                     What was the worse?

The worst moment was when I had to create the whole video because of I had to search some programs to rotate the videos, put subtitles as fast as were possible, cut the videos... And I spent a lot of time doing that.

·                     What have you learnt?

We have known the dark side of textbooks, the importance of using videos, how to make a speech, we learned some programs to edit videos and also how to create video.

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

We have to keep as a group our desire to work hard, also keep it the good way that we complement us together and our good humor in difficult times.

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

We have to improve as a group not to overwhelm us somtimes and also divide some tasks better.

References

HELLO  I'M AINARA THE TRACKER THIS WEEK AND ALSO THE STAR.

For doing the speech we have researched the information in some webpages and in some documents that Linda has given to us. 

Webs:

http://www.google.es/imghp?hl=es&tab=wi

https://aulavirtual.um.es/portal

Documents:

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Analysis of the last week, by star AINARA

The journal of these weeks

HELLO EVERYBODY! 

I'M NOELIA, THE JOURNALIST AGAIN THIS WEEK 

:)  

Last week we were talking about the video. 

Here there are 10 point about the video.

1º   It's not only for being seen 

2º   The video doesn't have to last more than 10 - 25 minutes. It must be as short as posible   and concrete.

3º   the teacher doesn't have to have the tv remote

4º   It doesn't have to teach only an objetive. Children can learn more things about the topic.

5º   The video doesn't have to be on tapes or discs. You can bring the movie in a pen drive.

6º   Not only in the classroom

7º   It is not safer at home than in class

8º   Teacher is not the only transmiter and not only the receiver

9º   A video can't replace a teacher.

10º  Any technology can replace a teacher.

This week we are talking about the dark side of text books. 
We must explain the dark side of books of one of these ways. 

• Tv advertisement 
• Speech 5- 8 min
• Comic
• Time line 
• Pechakucha
• Story fable or myth