Collaborative activity group 6

Last day I couldn't go to class so I missed two of the collaborative activities, but today I have enjoyed very much the activities designed by my class-mates.

Group 5 has prepared the following activity:

- A power point with a general explanation about the topic: which are the main target groups, which are the measures which Autonomous Communities have to develop in order to assure education and so on.

- Once we all knew a bit about the specific support measures, each group had to fill a mural with individual ideas, previously told to the whole group, which were written in post-its. After that, the murals were shared and each group could add more ideas in more post-its.

- Afterwards, one person from each group made a conclusion about his own topic in order to summarize the main ideas about each target group.

- The last activity was a brief debate about the ideas we put in the post-its: what we agreed and disagreed.

- Finally, we had to assess the activity.

I have really liked this collaborative activity because it has been really complete. First of all we have had an explanation by the "experts" in order to have a first approach (although it wasn't very collaborative it has been faster than if we had had to read all the information in a paper). In addition, we all have shared our ideas and the activity took into account the individual, the group and the whole class. Finally, group 5 have had to work hard in order to prepare the power point and the murals which were very beautiful.

                                   

These have been the notes I took during the activity:

They have explained us what the target groups were, the disadvantages they had and the specific support measures for them.

The Autonomous Community has to assure three main measures:

- Guaranteeing the most suitable conditions for schooling in Pre-primary education.

- Providing schools with human and material resources (for example teachers of compensatory education).

- Compensation plans at schools in order to avoid school absenteism.

There are three main target groups: students in rural areas, itinerant students and hospitalized students. Students in rural areas are those who attend to schools in municipalities nearby, so the government sometimes facilitate free transport. Moreover, in grouping schools spread out ("colegios rurales agrupados") teachers who covered the specialties are needed. Finally a grouping school spread out has the same "PEC" ("Proyecto Educativo de Centro") and "PGA" ("Programación General Annual"). Itinerant students, whose parents work in the circus for example, cannot follow a regular schooling process so they have supportive itinerant units. Eventually, hospitalized students cannot attend a "normal" school because of their situation, therefore, hospitals are fitted out to have some classes.

                                       

Our group was asked to develop some measures to apply to hospitalized students and these were the ideas we put in the post-its:

- Carry out some excursions to those students whose needs allow them to go out for a while.

- Take into account the diseases each child has in order to modify or adapt the classes.

- Provide classrooms, materials and teachers who come regularly to the hospital.

- Provide a counsellor in charge of those hospitalized students because everyone has the right of one.

- Prepare didactic material adapted to the children necessities.