Education league Ideal School
Well done. First of all, congratulations for your video presentation I think it has been so creative the idea of presenting the topic with drawins and like if it was a real class topic, where teacher and students dialogue about it. Moreover, you have included your plan guide and your objectives with was important since you haven't forgotten the tips of the first project of the subject.
Well done. Refering to the content you have explained very well talking about multiculturality, inclusion, resilience, nature in school, different buildings at the school to motive different learning environments, creativity, critical attitude, democratic leadership, antibullying projects like KiVa since students have to understand that all of us are unique and differences and we have to live in coexistence with the world. Another good point was "entretodos project", which consist on the integration of the families on the school development, project launched in the school Ramiro Solans. Also, it was remarkable aking the students what do they want/need for learning in class like different types of electronic devices to encourages ICT skill since sometimes school introduces gadgets but they are not adapted to the learners interests.
Work on it. Finally, it would be great for the next time to subtitle the video since there were sometimes that following and understanding the video was difficult.
Sofa session Ideal School
Well done. Your school "Apollo" was so well contextuliced with the real situation of Arroyomlinos, you saw us different porcentages like the number of students of the city. Refering to the video edit, it was great the idea of adding music on the background. Nevertheless, you should have made it more dynamic when you were presenting the ideas of your project, like adding some photos or remarkable words to attract more our attention.
Well done. Some of the greatest ideas of your school where the values the school abide by, like respect, tolerance and friendship. I was delighted with the welcome program but I think it must be more the students role to integrate a new mate than the psychologist role. As well, the idea of the corner program it was good to encourage differebt learning environments. In addition, you expreses the idea of continuous teacher assesment to develop the class functioning but I think that in this chart students and families must be included since both of them are involucrated in the school development. Refering to this, it was not so clear the integration of families at school since you only involucrate families with a poor background instead of talking about all the families.
Might be revised. Your school was a semi private one, but if we want the integration of all the children on schools and make all of them excellent to give the same opportunities to all the childs why do you choose this option...? In my opinion you should look out more consciously this election since we have to encourage and equal education for everybody.
Good job. Finally I was pleased with the idea of doing projects between all the clasrooms since it motivates the participation and understanding of students with different ages, as well as their creativity, interest or social and personal skills.
Ana and Marta Ideal School
Before starting talking about the project congratulations for your bigg effort of doing the project both of you in less time than the rest of us.
Good job: I think your ideal school video was well designed the combination of images sound and video was good nevertheless I think you should have made it more dynamic introducing more videos, images or write important words to highlight the content.
Good job.The content of the video was well explained you talked about how to solve a current problem on the schools like it is buylling with apps such as "semáforo rojo" which facilitates the appereance and solution of buylling cases on schools, moreover you talked about multiple intelligences refering to Begoña Ibarrola and "La montaña del miedo" like examples of promoters of the change in educational intelligences.
Good job. Your ideal school is based on coevaluation plus assesment like the method of evaluation which I like since we learn by doing (working cooperatively related with it your motto was "we are union") and while our mates and teachers give feedbacks about our daily activities. As well you explain your school values (happines, integration, union, team work and refelecting about the footprint we want to leave in the society), democratic leadership, ICT or family participation on the school community.
Good job. You have made a real plan of your school I think you should not have spent so much time doing it since it was not one of the main task of the project, nevertheless you explain the function of each building and one of the remarkable ideas, for me, was the vegetable garden and it donations to the charity fomenting values of solidarity in your students But I have missed, like in other projects, the distribution of the class, the furnitures, acustic or illumination whcih are very important for the students learning and the school environment.
Well done girl's 👍👍
Travelchers Ideal School
Congratulations travelchers for your project it was so complete, deeply explained and the model was so well used for the video. But for the next time try to be more concrete instead of repeating the same content in different parts of the recording.
Good Job, You expain concretely your content like the contextualization with the educatve situation in Santander, as well as projects like Assistace plan or Goodfather project to help, relationate and guide sudents of different ages. You explained your project about coexistence and inclusive eduation, Flipped Clasroom technique or Jigsaw to work cooperativelly, the involucration of all educative cmommunity, Green project that encourages student's responsability with the environment, the distribution of your class by sections to promote students learning, the movement designe for change (students and teacher's mentality is represented by the motto I can do it insteda of can I do it? )or the development of social constructive theory on the classes, these ideas where justified by the author that develop the idea what is important to highlight.
It was difficult to understand the idea of having 60 students in a class with three teachers I do not know if this idea is studied but I will be interesting in knowing it advantages or disadvanatages. As well you said that there would not be subjects but then you talked about them so it was a bit confusing.
Good job. You did a great job with the idea of your video of representing a real school with it classes, teacher, parents and students. The model was very well decorated and related with what you talk on the video.
Good job 💪
Fernweh Ideal School
Congratulations guys for your project I like it very much the name of your school, Sinergia since it means the conexion between members of a group, working cooperativly what it is one of our goals for our future education. To work on it, the next tyme try to subtitle some parts of teh video since it was difficult to follow
Good Job. Your learning was based on Proyect Based Learning and Problem Based Learning which are good methodolgie sto work with at class, it increase children critical thinking, learning experiences or dynamic learning, they are the ones who construct their knowledge continuslly and they have to confront to different challenges as they will have to do it in their live. Moreover, you work multiple intelligences including the emotional one which are very important to work since all of our children are different and unique and all their skills must be developed, because of that you work with a personalized education since students have different skills, types of learning and personalities.
Good job. You explained how to work coopraively in your class improving attention,involment, communication, creativity and so on, as well your education is bidirectional what means that students learn form teacher but as well on the contrary. You have a big educative community where the decision are taken by everybody, teacher, parents and studnets. You explain what qualities should have a good leader (persistence,patience, empathetic, flexible, mediator, innovative, participative, curious...) but you have not explain what type of leadership you will be focused on. Finally, I find very interesting your collaboration with bq to work the Information and Communication Technology by the logo do it yourself-do it with others.
Well done 👍💪
Contrasters Ideal School
Congratulations for your Ideal School Contrasters, you have done your best to rise the project overcoming difficulties. Refering about the video designe I really appreciate the subtitules, it is a huge you to subtitule a video and it was very considering and excellent.
Good Job. You talk about your school squedule, working with different languages, the importance of the library on your school is very important what I really like it since I think reading is one of the most imprtant aspects for education and if children love reading we have done a big step for encorage their future learning. As well, you introduce a school where cooperation, inclusion, democracy are very important, you also talk about your school organization and you quote important authors like Piaget to justify your theory.
Nevertheless, you talked about the use of ICT but refering more to the disadvantages instead of the many benefits new technological devices haev at school and on students learning to motivate them presenting new methodologies or a more dynamic learning. Moreover, you didn't talk so much about some key aspects like methodologies or the participation of families at the school.
Good Job you talk about to apps like "self review framework" it is used to analyse the school development, you use as well an app called "bullying no more" to avoid and eraise it on the center and finally a the project "azahara" to aid children with learning dissabilities and promote their inclusion on the classes. Finally, it was great the introduction of some newspapers articles and graphics to put us in environment with what you where explaining about.
Good Job Contrasters 💪💪
Raquel Ezquerra Rodríguez
Education league
Talking about the content, your school organization was so practical for students. I liked that you mentioned some applications that can be used in the classroom which are useful for teachers and for students.
The explanation of reisilence was very clear and for me good to understand a word that can be harder than others. The project "entre todos" was a great example, well done!
In general, you talked about all the main and most important points such as bullying, ICT or the learning community and they were very well explained and clear. If I had to say something to improve, it would be the sound because sometimes it was quite hard to hear what it was said.
SOFA SESSIONS
I liked your idea for your school, Apollo. However, the point that it is private or semi-private was something that alerted me some how.
Besides that, you did a great job and effort going to a school a making your video there and mostly, using a real student as an example.
A great thing you mentioned was to adapt education to the needs of the students paying attention to their strengths and also how you develop and teach different values to your students.
You school was well adapted to the needs of children with the patch and also the murals to work and learn in a different way. What was not so clear was the participation of the family and the community and how you put the theory into practice.
What can be improved is that the video at some points make you lose attention as you are the whole time talking without many pictures or main words which would have made it more attractive.
OTHERSIDERS
I'm amazed with you girls for your hard work and how you got beyond the problems you faced!!
The best thing of your school in my opinion was the statement "learning by doing" and how you focused it on the evaluation method. You included all the main aspects we have been talking about in the different subjects and projects in your school and one important point, the multiple intelligences and some other skills with good examples.
The theory was very well explained with important details mentioned but sometimes it was quite monotonous because of the images and no text with important words or videos but I understand that you didn't have as much time as the rest of us to edit the video.
The app you mentioned, Bullying semáforo, was excellent to explain how you manage bullying situations and you try to avoid it in the school. The values you want for your school are excellent for children and how you transmit them to the students.
Every single aspect of the theory is explained perfectly, from my point of view, ICT, learning community, values, problems we can find, bullying which is related to the concept of violence, also wery well explained, etc.
To sum up, I have to say that the physical design of your school was great and what I most liked about it was the preschool buildings and the meaning behind them.
Excellent job girls!!
FERNWEH
The name of the school, Sinergia, was well chosen and the explanation was very good and useful.
What I didn´t like was the the school was private even though it was only at the beginning. However you gave good reasons for it and how the transition from private to public would be.
The part of the cooperative learning was well explained in a very clear way and the reasons why it is important to be worked in the classroom. You also mentioned the importance of multiple intelligences without forgetting about the emotional one.
I really like how you relate connect the ideas and mainly that the teacher can learn from the students as well as the students learn from the teacher, it is a bidirectional education and learning and how they can construct their own knowledge. You talked about some of the main theoretical aspects and introduced new terms but explaining them like "BQ", but you forget to talk about bullying or conflicts solving wich I believe they have an important role in our society nowadays and I also felt that the role of the community was quite poor.
TRAVELCHERS
The video was very original, dynamic and attractive and was easy to follow paying attention the whole time very easily. It can be seen that you did a huge effort with the video.
I really liked the structure of the school and the classrooms with multiple intelligences corners, ICT areas, and also the design of the school in general.
You explainthe theory very well but in some projects and programmes you use you only mention them without explaining how they work, how you use them in the classroom and why they are important, as well as the transersal curriculum, although it is a good point you work with it.What I would highlight is the methods to avoid bullying and how well you explain them, excellent!
Some negative points I have to mention are:
- The number of students in each classrom (60) because I think that even though there are three teachers, is may be a problem working in so a huge class.
- Lack of subjects. I think that at some ages children need to exactly know what they are working and have a structured schedule.
- The fact of putting the learning progress or results publicly because it can cause students who have problems or difficulties in the learning process be the centre of attention and other can be bad with them (bullying).
But it was great to put subtitles. However, it was perfectly understandable and we can see that all of you worked hard and know anything about the project.
CONTRASTERS CREW
The name of the school, Utopia Learning, can be great if you mean "utopia" as the perfect school or if you mean it with the meaning of something excellent but almost imposible to reach, I have to say that anything we dream of can be reached with effort.
You did a great introduction of what education is and the problems we face in our educational system as well as the definition of cooperative school. Quoting Piaget was a very nice idea to explain your system. Another good point of you video was the subtitles, very useful.
You also did a good researching work and you found an interesting app, Bullying no more, and for that topic you also put a great chart and graph explaining real facts as well as inlcuding newspapers references. Refering to bullying I like the chart in wich it is shown some "reasons" for bullying even though it doesn't have any excuse. The idea of putting the theory into practice was a good aspect of your methodologies. I loved that you don't like a competitive environment in your school, NICE!
You mentioned a game for children with educational needs but you didn't say how it helps them and how the game is.
The school appearance and organization was so attractive and also well explained and it is noticeable that you worked hard on doing the design. However, in the playground I think that for young students the swings might be dangerous.
In general the content was very well explained although you repeated the same points sometimes and it wasn't really organized. What I missed was the learning community and its role in the school.
It was a great project, well done!!
Umaima Kassemi Serroukh
Education league Ideal School
The way was presented the topic and the video is excellent. It is innovative and creative. Giving the chance to the children, in this case students to think about what would be an Ideal School for them. It is similar to what we have done at the beginning of the our video. Children´opinion is key in order to best build an "ideal school". They also presented an ecologic orchard and bicycles´parking which I find a great way of educating children into a healthy life style.
What about methodologies?
They spoke about social constructivism which matches with the way they have distributed the classroom. It is good way of presenting the two ways that they are working: cooperatively and cooperatively.
The capacities they want to promote are a critical attitude and a divergent thinking, which I understand as the same. Teamwork, creativity, resilience are important, too.
The idea of creating a new subject called Spiritual Development is good point. A place where to reflect about other cultures is a good idea instead of having only one unique religion taught.
In relation to leadership, all the groups took the democratic one. But they do not specify the kind of it. I would say that the most appropriated for the inclusive education and the way families are actively engaged would be the distributed one. Nevertheless, the characteristics of a good headmaster well.
Kiva has been the program used for most of us. They also used other ones called team mediators and friendly students to enrich the emotional and social learning of the students which I find fantastic. "Entre todos" is the program that is shown in the video to promote an inclusive environment, including students and parents, too.
ICTs is seen as a tool to enhance multiple intelligences and a tool to facilitate the equality of all students, which I think is a good point. However, we though about the way of introducing them to pupils. This is given them an appropriate digital literacy knowledge.
Sofa sessions Ideal School
This group has done a huge effort in order to study context of their school. I want to congratulate them. It was very risky form their part, but I think that the point is to learn and they also give us the opportunity to know more about the issues that surrounds the creation of a school.
Although it has been difficult to follow the video and what they say because of the lack of subtitles or/ and ideas or images, and because they have worked in the same line, I find it very innovative and the theory well explained.
"Corner program" is a great tool to get all the school involved in the same bilingual learning process. In which the classroom is divided into different groups. Each year students change the team in which they are, that can be the Irish one, for instance. I find less interesting using a behaviourist model to correct and enhance children in this kind of learning. I prefer a continuous assessment of their progress instead of just adding points. However, general teacher assessment is a good point, focusing on the improvements and following up the student progresses. In addition, they introduced the concept of Kolb´s cycle which is similar to the Singapore Method and it fits well with the constructivist point of view that they have about the learning process.
Othersiders. Marta y Ana
I could not image what a big effort they have done just two people. They have built a miniature of their ideal school and they had that idea to give to each course of nursery an specific name in relation with the famous tale "Three little pigs". However, I think they have donde an extra work that was not necessary for this project.
In general they went in deep with the ideas and they spoke about lot of points. Maybe I would prefer a more dynamic and concrete video. Nevertheless, the theory was very well explained with good examples. They focus on bullying and into the prevention of it using apps such as "BullySemáforo", through group dynamics and assistant plans. Generally speaking, the school is presented as a place where to promote difference and tolerance, self-esteem, too. As we do they paid attention to the emotional part using an specific methodology through books such as "La montaña de Iván" by Begoña Ibarrola.
On the other hand, I really like that they consider the children promoting of change and the concept of communities of practice that are everywhere. In reference to the methodology they share the same concept as we do: working in a cooperative way. Ana and Marta also paid special attention to the positive aspects.
What about the evaluation and methodology?
They took different procedures as we are doing in this subject: the self-assessment, coevaluation and evaluation of the teacher. Teachers will have to surprise their students which I think is a big effort and not that effective. Instead I prefer to use the term to wake up in pupils and emotion that will enhance them in order to follow the learning. And in this way avoid the routine. Finally, the values are presented as a way to grow positively. The main one is to give the pupils the tools to discover by themselves who they are, about their goals (although I think this aspect is difficult for children to understand), about "what footprint do I want to leave?" and the most important is happiness.
Fernweh Ideal School
The video was very originally made although it has been difficult to me to follow since the drawings go faster than the theory. The idea of name school is great. The use of the name to explain the main objetive at the beginning is a good way to start. "Sinergia" is the name which I found connected with the idea of rhizome that we have worked in our group in relation with the connectivism conception of how we learn. As of all the groups they choose a cooperative way of learning.
It was very interesting the way the connect the reality with the fiction. They placed the school in Madrid and they look for financial help through real companies as BQ. But they also will rent the school to individuals and companies in order to collect money. In reference to the methodology they choose constructivism and social constructivism to enhance students autonomy which is a good point in order to produce and effective learning which I understood as a meaningful one. About leadership, it was explained very well the main characteristics but I missed the type to promote.
Travelchers Ideal School
Travelchers paid a special attention to the emotional aspect. Some of their goals are to achieve empathy, self-control and self-confident, agility and adaptability as deeply relevant social capacities. The most I enjoyed form this group is the methodology part. The "Aprendizaje en escenarios prácticos (ABEP)" is a the best way to produce on children a meaningful learning since they are connected with the reality, although is a built one. But the best way to learn is practicing. And the idea of times instead of subjects.
Although the video sometimes get monotonous I appreciate the huge effort that they have done in the last week in order to finish the project. They worked really hard so they could show it the next week. I am in favor of a flipped classroom methodology although it means a huge effort to the teachers so I would give them time in their schedule in order to work on it.
Travelchers as we have done, consider the library the drives for cultural and social of education and the heart of the school. I found complex to work with 60 children in the same classroom although there are three teachers. I think children will get easily distract. Finally, the way the distribute the classroom in a U form during the dialogues is essential so every child can see his classmate and can be created a confident relationship between students.
Contrasters Ideal School
Contrasters look for a democratic, inclusive and cooperative way of learning in which ICTs have an important role. Nevertheless, they focus in the negative aspects instead of the positive ones. Instead of promoting an educational environment where ICTs are presented as dangerous tool and teachers can create a unjustified fear, I prefer to focus on the positive ones and to educate children to acquire a digital identity as well as critical attitude.
Self-review framework is a good tool to evaluate the performance of the school and it can also help the headmaster to reinforce his role which I found well explained in the main characteristics but not well designed. They also took special attention to bullying and they presented different applications which are very useful. To help children with disabilities they used a project called "Azahara". The methodology is an interdisciplinary one and similar to Travelchers they have different studios where to promote an specific kind of learning.
They also spoke about school schedule and specifically about introducing an extra second language and I am not sure if this is possible. What I really appreciate is the concept of the library which is the same as in Travelchers and in LosGochos. I missed the family participation and more details about the kind of methodology since they only mentioned it in a superficial way. To conclude, I would like to congratulate Nacho for his big effort completing his work and keeping his self-motivation.
Travelchers Ideal School
Congratulations travelchers for your project it was so complete, deeply explained and the model was so well used for the video. But for the next time try to be more concrete instead of repeating the same content in different parts of the recording.
Good Job, You expain concretely your content like the contextualization with the educatve situation in Santander, as well as projects like Assistace plan or Goodfather project to help, relationate and guide sudents of different ages. You explained your project about coexistence and inclusive eduation, Flipped Clasroom technique or Jigsaw to work cooperativelly, the involucration of all educative cmommunity, Green project that encourages student's responsability with the environment, the distribution of your class by sections to promote students learning, the movement designe for change (students and teacher's mentality is represented by the motto I can do it insteda of can I do it? )or the development of social constructive theory on the classes, these ideas where justified by the author that develop the idea what is important to highlight.
It was difficult to understand the idea of having 60 students in a class with three teachers I do not know if this idea is studied but I will be interesting in knowing it advantages or disadvanatages. As well you said that there would not be subjects but then you talked about them so it was a bit confusing.
Good job. You did a great job with the idea of your video of representing a real school with it classes, teacher, parents and students. The model was very well decorated and related with what you talk on the video.
Good job 💪
Fernweh Ideal School
Congratulations guys for your project I like it very much the name of your school, Sinergia since it means the conexion between members of a group, working cooperativly what it is one of our goals for our future education. To work on it, the next tyme try to subtitle some parts of teh video since it was difficult to follow
Good Job. Your learning was based on Proyect Based Learning and Problem Based Learning which are good methodolgie sto work with at class, it increase children critical thinking, learning experiences or dynamic learning, they are the ones who construct their knowledge continuslly and they have to confront to different challenges as they will have to do it in their live. Moreover, you work multiple intelligences including the emotional one which are very important to work since all of our children are different and unique and all their skills must be developed, because of that you work with a personalized education since students have different skills, types of learning and personalities.
Good job. You explained how to work coopraively in your class improving attention,involment, communication, creativity and so on, as well your education is bidirectional what means that students learn form teacher but as well on the contrary. You have a big educative community where the decision are taken by everybody, teacher, parents and studnets. You explain what qualities should have a good leader (persistence,patience, empathetic, flexible, mediator, innovative, participative, curious...) but you have not explain what type of leadership you will be focused on. Finally, I find very interesting your collaboration with bq to work the Information and Communication Technology by the logo do it yourself-do it with others.
Well done 👍💪
Contrasters Ideal School
Congratulations for your Ideal School Contrasters, you have done your best to rise the project overcoming difficulties. Refering about the video designe I really appreciate the subtitules, it is a huge you to subtitule a video and it was very considering and excellent.
Good Job. You talk about your school squedule, working with different languages, the importance of the library on your school is very important what I really like it since I think reading is one of the most imprtant aspects for education and if children love reading we have done a big step for encorage their future learning. As well, you introduce a school where cooperation, inclusion, democracy are very important, you also talk about your school organization and you quote important authors like Piaget to justify your theory.
Nevertheless, you talked about the use of ICT but refering more to the disadvantages instead of the many benefits new technological devices haev at school and on students learning to motivate them presenting new methodologies or a more dynamic learning. Moreover, you didn't talk so much about some key aspects like methodologies or the participation of families at the school.
Good Job you talk about to apps like "self review framework" it is used to analyse the school development, you use as well an app called "bullying no more" to avoid and eraise it on the center and finally a the project "azahara" to aid children with learning dissabilities and promote their inclusion on the classes. Finally, it was great the introduction of some newspapers articles and graphics to put us in environment with what you where explaining about.
Good Job Contrasters 💪💪
Raquel Ezquerra Rodríguez
Education league
Congratulations educative league, you have shown in the video that youhave worked hard on how would your ideal school be. tThe theoretical ideas are clear and well reasoned
with what we have been learning this year, and the theory was well associated with
what the practice would be like.
The idea of
drawing for making the video was a good manner to explain the project as it is
very visual and at the same time we can hear the explanation of each point. Moreover,
the dialogues between the characters is an original way of creating a school as
teachers interact with the students and can consider their opinion, and as the dialogue is something we should promote at schools.
On the dialogue, first you expose the
student's ideas, the teacher makes the connection between of their ideas with
the theory, and afterwards, the students create their own connections about how
could their ideas of an ideal school be developed. That is fantastic! but, that
it is an utopia. I mean, you do not talk about how are you going to take those
ideas into a real school project. It is too much about what we should do and
what it would be great to do and not much about what we are doing, what we are
working on, what we are developing for our school. I think these is the point
where you could improve your presentation. How are you going to make that real?
You have work on
the ideas, on how you want your school to be, and the context behind them,
which as been excellent. Congratulations, I enjoyed watching your video :)
Congratulations because you did a great job! First of all, the idea of the video was very creative and original with the drawings and like if the teacher were asking the students how their ideal school would be like.
TRAVELCHERS
What an incredible
mock-up! I really liked your presentation because you have very clear the
structure of the school, not only physically, also the abstract part, all the content
and context that is behind, the way education is carried out.
All the parts of
the video have been very detailed and clear. I like the course of the video. First
there is an introduction of the school and the essential points where there are
included the values, social skills and education model, that are developed on
it. Then you give way to the teachers and the families through a dialogue where
you explain more specifically the methods, techniques, innovating projects...
On the other hand,
there are points where you have extend too much such us ICTs, which you having
been talking about in many parts of the video. It was a long video and this
made it more repetitive and tiring. For the next time try to summarized and be
more concrete.
I think Santander
is a great city for a great school hahaha
Congratulations.
Cristina Álvarez Domínguez
FERNEWH
The name of your school,
Sinergia, represents very well the idea we want to transmit with this project,
as it means cooperation of all the educative community for an effective
learning and also the idea of a social coeducation.
I like the idea of basing
learning on different proyects and not being so closed-minded with the
curriculum, and the idea of an education with a construtivist methodology in
which students have an active role. You also gave emphasis to the emotional
learning as learning is more effective when we feel emotions with what we are
learning while we learn, and also the emotions as an intelligence that is
developed between students, teachers and parents. Sinergia is based on the
emotional and individual eduaction adapting the curriculum to the students as
for example with the ICTs and BQ.
On the other hand, there are
other relevant points such as bullying and other internal problems that are
common at schools that you did not talk about. I also missed how does the community
gets involved in the education of the students.
SOFA SESSIONS
In contrast with the rest of the
group, your project is based more on the context than on the content. You have
gone in deep with numbers and concrete data about your school, trying to make
the school from real context which was excellent.
What grabbed my attention is
that your ideal school is a private school. It is an option, nevertheless you should have defended more with some arguments or reasons, as it is in
contradition with the ideology of our degree that fights for the inclusion of
every child and the equal opportunities.
About the content of Apollo’s school
you have developed some great points
such as the ICTs to engage and adapt to students’ needs, the bilingualism project,
the relation with the families and the KiVa project. Other points were a little
bit less developed such as critical thinking or collaboration and communication, which you only mention.
The way you made the video and the
general idea was excellent, and you have connected the theory with the practice.
CONTRASTERS CREW
The context and the content are very clear and well
explained, although there are somethings missing and some mistakes. Your project,
as the name of the school shows (Utopia), has focus more in the theoretical
aspects than in the practice.
You have focused the project on some specific areas such as
ICTs and the school physical design. About the ICTs, it is important to remark
that you have search for extra inofrmation such as apps to solve or prevent
bullying (Bullying No More) and the Aula PT. About the school design, I agree
that the structure in form of “u” with the library in the middle is a great
option for a school to be connected and to have a better access to the library, that is the heart of the school.
On the other hand, I have missed information about the
learning community. The leadership was well explained, but you do not say what
kind of leadership is. I supposed you were talking about a democratic
leadership. I would also liked to ear something about multiple intelligences.
This Project was a big challenge for you, but you faced and
deal with the difficulties to do it.
Cristina Álvarez Domínguez
EDUCATION LEAGUE
Talking about the content, your school organization was so practical for students. I liked that you mentioned some applications that can be used in the classroom which are useful for teachers and for students.
The explanation of reisilence was very clear and for me good to understand a word that can be harder than others. The project "entre todos" was a great example, well done!
In general, you talked about all the main and most important points such as bullying, ICT or the learning community and they were very well explained and clear. If I had to say something to improve, it would be the sound because sometimes it was quite hard to hear what it was said.
SOFA SESSIONS
I liked your idea for your school, Apollo. However, the point that it is private or semi-private was something that alerted me some how.
Besides that, you did a great job and effort going to a school a making your video there and mostly, using a real student as an example.
A great thing you mentioned was to adapt education to the needs of the students paying attention to their strengths and also how you develop and teach different values to your students.
You school was well adapted to the needs of children with the patch and also the murals to work and learn in a different way. What was not so clear was the participation of the family and the community and how you put the theory into practice.
What can be improved is that the video at some points make you lose attention as you are the whole time talking without many pictures or main words which would have made it more attractive.
OTHERSIDERS
I'm amazed with you girls for your hard work and how you got beyond the problems you faced!!
The best thing of your school in my opinion was the statement "learning by doing" and how you focused it on the evaluation method. You included all the main aspects we have been talking about in the different subjects and projects in your school and one important point, the multiple intelligences and some other skills with good examples.
The theory was very well explained with important details mentioned but sometimes it was quite monotonous because of the images and no text with important words or videos but I understand that you didn't have as much time as the rest of us to edit the video.
The app you mentioned, Bullying semáforo, was excellent to explain how you manage bullying situations and you try to avoid it in the school. The values you want for your school are excellent for children and how you transmit them to the students.
Every single aspect of the theory is explained perfectly, from my point of view, ICT, learning community, values, problems we can find, bullying which is related to the concept of violence, also wery well explained, etc.
To sum up, I have to say that the physical design of your school was great and what I most liked about it was the preschool buildings and the meaning behind them.
Excellent job girls!!
FERNWEH
The name of the school, Sinergia, was well chosen and the explanation was very good and useful.
What I didn´t like was the the school was private even though it was only at the beginning. However you gave good reasons for it and how the transition from private to public would be.
The part of the cooperative learning was well explained in a very clear way and the reasons why it is important to be worked in the classroom. You also mentioned the importance of multiple intelligences without forgetting about the emotional one.
I really like how you relate connect the ideas and mainly that the teacher can learn from the students as well as the students learn from the teacher, it is a bidirectional education and learning and how they can construct their own knowledge. You talked about some of the main theoretical aspects and introduced new terms but explaining them like "BQ", but you forget to talk about bullying or conflicts solving wich I believe they have an important role in our society nowadays and I also felt that the role of the community was quite poor.
TRAVELCHERS
The video was very original, dynamic and attractive and was easy to follow paying attention the whole time very easily. It can be seen that you did a huge effort with the video.
I really liked the structure of the school and the classrooms with multiple intelligences corners, ICT areas, and also the design of the school in general.
You explainthe theory very well but in some projects and programmes you use you only mention them without explaining how they work, how you use them in the classroom and why they are important, as well as the transersal curriculum, although it is a good point you work with it.What I would highlight is the methods to avoid bullying and how well you explain them, excellent!
Some negative points I have to mention are:
- The number of students in each classrom (60) because I think that even though there are three teachers, is may be a problem working in so a huge class.
- Lack of subjects. I think that at some ages children need to exactly know what they are working and have a structured schedule.
- The fact of putting the learning progress or results publicly because it can cause students who have problems or difficulties in the learning process be the centre of attention and other can be bad with them (bullying).
But it was great to put subtitles. However, it was perfectly understandable and we can see that all of you worked hard and know anything about the project.
CONTRASTERS CREW
The name of the school, Utopia Learning, can be great if you mean "utopia" as the perfect school or if you mean it with the meaning of something excellent but almost imposible to reach, I have to say that anything we dream of can be reached with effort.
You did a great introduction of what education is and the problems we face in our educational system as well as the definition of cooperative school. Quoting Piaget was a very nice idea to explain your system. Another good point of you video was the subtitles, very useful.
You also did a good researching work and you found an interesting app, Bullying no more, and for that topic you also put a great chart and graph explaining real facts as well as inlcuding newspapers references. Refering to bullying I like the chart in wich it is shown some "reasons" for bullying even though it doesn't have any excuse. The idea of putting the theory into practice was a good aspect of your methodologies. I loved that you don't like a competitive environment in your school, NICE!
You mentioned a game for children with educational needs but you didn't say how it helps them and how the game is.
The school appearance and organization was so attractive and also well explained and it is noticeable that you worked hard on doing the design. However, in the playground I think that for young students the swings might be dangerous.
In general the content was very well explained although you repeated the same points sometimes and it wasn't really organized. What I missed was the learning community and its role in the school.
It was a great project, well done!!
Umaima Kassemi Serroukh
Education league Ideal School
The way was presented the topic and the video is excellent. It is innovative and creative. Giving the chance to the children, in this case students to think about what would be an Ideal School for them. It is similar to what we have done at the beginning of the our video. Children´opinion is key in order to best build an "ideal school". They also presented an ecologic orchard and bicycles´parking which I find a great way of educating children into a healthy life style.
What about methodologies?
They spoke about social constructivism which matches with the way they have distributed the classroom. It is good way of presenting the two ways that they are working: cooperatively and cooperatively.
The capacities they want to promote are a critical attitude and a divergent thinking, which I understand as the same. Teamwork, creativity, resilience are important, too.
The idea of creating a new subject called Spiritual Development is good point. A place where to reflect about other cultures is a good idea instead of having only one unique religion taught.
In relation to leadership, all the groups took the democratic one. But they do not specify the kind of it. I would say that the most appropriated for the inclusive education and the way families are actively engaged would be the distributed one. Nevertheless, the characteristics of a good headmaster well.
Kiva has been the program used for most of us. They also used other ones called team mediators and friendly students to enrich the emotional and social learning of the students which I find fantastic. "Entre todos" is the program that is shown in the video to promote an inclusive environment, including students and parents, too.
ICTs is seen as a tool to enhance multiple intelligences and a tool to facilitate the equality of all students, which I think is a good point. However, we though about the way of introducing them to pupils. This is given them an appropriate digital literacy knowledge.
Sofa sessions Ideal School
This group has done a huge effort in order to study context of their school. I want to congratulate them. It was very risky form their part, but I think that the point is to learn and they also give us the opportunity to know more about the issues that surrounds the creation of a school.
Although it has been difficult to follow the video and what they say because of the lack of subtitles or/ and ideas or images, and because they have worked in the same line, I find it very innovative and the theory well explained.
"Corner program" is a great tool to get all the school involved in the same bilingual learning process. In which the classroom is divided into different groups. Each year students change the team in which they are, that can be the Irish one, for instance. I find less interesting using a behaviourist model to correct and enhance children in this kind of learning. I prefer a continuous assessment of their progress instead of just adding points. However, general teacher assessment is a good point, focusing on the improvements and following up the student progresses. In addition, they introduced the concept of Kolb´s cycle which is similar to the Singapore Method and it fits well with the constructivist point of view that they have about the learning process.
Othersiders. Marta y Ana
I could not image what a big effort they have done just two people. They have built a miniature of their ideal school and they had that idea to give to each course of nursery an specific name in relation with the famous tale "Three little pigs". However, I think they have donde an extra work that was not necessary for this project.
In general they went in deep with the ideas and they spoke about lot of points. Maybe I would prefer a more dynamic and concrete video. Nevertheless, the theory was very well explained with good examples. They focus on bullying and into the prevention of it using apps such as "BullySemáforo", through group dynamics and assistant plans. Generally speaking, the school is presented as a place where to promote difference and tolerance, self-esteem, too. As we do they paid attention to the emotional part using an specific methodology through books such as "La montaña de Iván" by Begoña Ibarrola.
On the other hand, I really like that they consider the children promoting of change and the concept of communities of practice that are everywhere. In reference to the methodology they share the same concept as we do: working in a cooperative way. Ana and Marta also paid special attention to the positive aspects.
What about the evaluation and methodology?
They took different procedures as we are doing in this subject: the self-assessment, coevaluation and evaluation of the teacher. Teachers will have to surprise their students which I think is a big effort and not that effective. Instead I prefer to use the term to wake up in pupils and emotion that will enhance them in order to follow the learning. And in this way avoid the routine. Finally, the values are presented as a way to grow positively. The main one is to give the pupils the tools to discover by themselves who they are, about their goals (although I think this aspect is difficult for children to understand), about "what footprint do I want to leave?" and the most important is happiness.
Fernweh Ideal School
The video was very originally made although it has been difficult to me to follow since the drawings go faster than the theory. The idea of name school is great. The use of the name to explain the main objetive at the beginning is a good way to start. "Sinergia" is the name which I found connected with the idea of rhizome that we have worked in our group in relation with the connectivism conception of how we learn. As of all the groups they choose a cooperative way of learning.
It was very interesting the way the connect the reality with the fiction. They placed the school in Madrid and they look for financial help through real companies as BQ. But they also will rent the school to individuals and companies in order to collect money. In reference to the methodology they choose constructivism and social constructivism to enhance students autonomy which is a good point in order to produce and effective learning which I understood as a meaningful one. About leadership, it was explained very well the main characteristics but I missed the type to promote.
Travelchers Ideal School
Travelchers paid a special attention to the emotional aspect. Some of their goals are to achieve empathy, self-control and self-confident, agility and adaptability as deeply relevant social capacities. The most I enjoyed form this group is the methodology part. The "Aprendizaje en escenarios prácticos (ABEP)" is a the best way to produce on children a meaningful learning since they are connected with the reality, although is a built one. But the best way to learn is practicing. And the idea of times instead of subjects.
Although the video sometimes get monotonous I appreciate the huge effort that they have done in the last week in order to finish the project. They worked really hard so they could show it the next week. I am in favor of a flipped classroom methodology although it means a huge effort to the teachers so I would give them time in their schedule in order to work on it.
Travelchers as we have done, consider the library the drives for cultural and social of education and the heart of the school. I found complex to work with 60 children in the same classroom although there are three teachers. I think children will get easily distract. Finally, the way the distribute the classroom in a U form during the dialogues is essential so every child can see his classmate and can be created a confident relationship between students.
Contrasters Ideal School
Contrasters look for a democratic, inclusive and cooperative way of learning in which ICTs have an important role. Nevertheless, they focus in the negative aspects instead of the positive ones. Instead of promoting an educational environment where ICTs are presented as dangerous tool and teachers can create a unjustified fear, I prefer to focus on the positive ones and to educate children to acquire a digital identity as well as critical attitude.
Self-review framework is a good tool to evaluate the performance of the school and it can also help the headmaster to reinforce his role which I found well explained in the main characteristics but not well designed. They also took special attention to bullying and they presented different applications which are very useful. To help children with disabilities they used a project called "Azahara". The methodology is an interdisciplinary one and similar to Travelchers they have different studios where to promote an specific kind of learning.
They also spoke about school schedule and specifically about introducing an extra second language and I am not sure if this is possible. What I really appreciate is the concept of the library which is the same as in Travelchers and in LosGochos. I missed the family participation and more details about the kind of methodology since they only mentioned it in a superficial way. To conclude, I would like to congratulate Nacho for his big effort completing his work and keeping his self-motivation.
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