Second day of video presentations (4 groups)

“RIGATONI’S ANGELS”

The presentation of the group was different and interesting. They have a very creative concept and plot in their work. At first we saw in the video an interview taking place in a school, in the first moments in the video we can see the points of view of teachers, students and parents. It was a nice interview and it was emphasized the importance of cooperative learning and good environment in the class, the big amount of books (that is not always a good thing) and how kids feel about homework and school.

 Then the group plays a little sketch. At first it’s show how sometimes teachers feel helpless and unhappy with what they do because they feel like their job has no point and the children don’t really learn from then .The solution came with an original way when the group of teachers decide to travel to the future to see in the first hand how will be the ideal school.

 The main ideas of this work I think is the teachers role , school structure that appeal to everyone’s needs ,cooperative learning , not to stuck in the curriculum , cooperation and communication between teachers-students-parents, change of the educational law and the importance of the new technologies . I like the variety in the video and of course the dancing in the end, it was very funny.

"LA BANDA DEL PATIO"

The group had a very difficult problem with their video because they lost their work and they had to done it from the beginning that itself makes them deserve congrats. The video was a little bit shorter than the others but had scenes from my favorite carton (like for the most of us) as a child so I liked it and I think the scenes they choose and their dialogues was creative.  

 At first we have the image of a traditional school that the strict teachers and the headmaster don’t listen to students’ voices about their different interests and their different needs and the curriculum is not flexible at all. As a result the students ask for their rights and fight for their school to change. The end was happy and they had their school as they imagined it.

 The main ideas I think are the inclusion of all students in school, the change of school and of teachers’ attitudes, cooperation and adaption of the curriculum.

I found good their plan of the ideal school with the 3 floors and also the triangle that they shown us ‘’ teacher-children-content’’.

"ESCUELA DE BOCACIÓN"

 I thing that the work my classmates done with their project is amazing! I loved their video and their idea was very original. They play a shadow -theatre that was perfect, the scenery, the dialogue, the ideas everything was very well showed.  I think that what this group did is what a good teacher should include to his/hers teaching methods,  to explain ideas throw stories.

 The story was a fairytale about a little student Bocacioncito that he was facing problems in school and he had negative behavior from his teacher who couldn’t understand the diversity of her pupils and expect from all of them to learn with the same traditional method. That made Bocacioncito feels very bad and have low self esteem, he thought that he will never be could enough so he give up the try and he couldn’t even trouble to study his homework. So his mother that noticed the strange behavior of her child went to school to see what the problem was. She saw things that she couldn’t believe the organization of school encourage exclusion instead of inclusion so she understand that in this spirit her son and a lot of other kids could never reach knowledge and meaningful learning.

The explanation of how the school building should be was also creative and well understood and all the parts were connected in a very good way.

 The main ideas was the inclusive education, cooperative learning, respect to diversity because everyone can teach us something, the concept of multiple intelligences, to leave children have their imagination and creativity and freedom. Also teachers’ cooperation, parents’ communication with the school, equity and autonomy for the children.

The result was very nice and we all enjoyed it and it show how the members cooperate very good with each other and that they worked hard.

"THE ROLE KIDS"

 The work of this group had parts. That thing helped so their work had variety. The first part was the creation of an educational newspaper it’s a really unique and different idea and we didn’t see something like this in the others presentation. They give newspapers printed to each group while they explain the content in the blackboard what we have to do to improve education. To create a newspaper with all these ideas must be a very hard work and good for them that they managed to do it.

 The part of the presentation of the ideal school I liked the most, it was made with the help of the video game Sims and their idea was very clear in our minds after watching their presentation.

I also enjoyed the cartoon ‘’Peter`s dream’’ that was about inclusion and respect to diversity of students , everybody had place in the regular class no matter what and everybody together can make the difference with help from cooperative techniques.

The part that was about their work in a real school I didn’t understand very well because it was so late so I think we lost this part a little.

 The main ideas were: inclusion, start teaching based on previous knowledge of our students, learn from the difference, use new media to help learning, evaluation for teachers and school for teachers ,interactive working groups and climate of mutual respect for all.

In conclusion I found all the presentations very interesting and I can see that was made with hard work. I enjoy these two days of presentations a lot!!!