What have
we learnt today?
Well, today
has been a really interesting day. I think we have learnt a lot of things and
we have learnt them the way children do in the classes of Manel. This” not very
usual teacher” has a not very usual way (unfortunately) of understanding
teaching. I think he really loves what he does and his main objective is that
children learn in a way that will allow them to incorporate everything they
learn to their lives. They will learn by doing things, being their own
teachers, as they have to look for the information, process it and after that,
they learn it and they teach each other. All this way to do things in class
implies a big amount of work and planning by the teacher. It is not the easiest
way to teach, but it is the most rewarding, as children really like and enjoy
their learning, what makes this learning more lasting and meaningful. They
also, as Manel says, show their interest and let you know by means of their
immediate implication in their work or task. That interest in doing, working,
learning is what every teacher would like to receive from his/her pupils , but
teachers don´t receive what they don´t give. It takes a big amount of work to
carry this kind of projects out and it is not easy to face the reaction of
parents and colleges, because this way of doing things is not the “formal” way
in which it has always been done.
On the
other hand, as the morning has been long, we have learnt just a very little
part of what we can do with an iPad. It is really wonderful! You can do an
innumerable amount of things with this ”object”. It gives you new possibilities
to experiment with children, to do new things, to create your own stories and
to make possible that history is not so boring. This comic is one of the tasks we have done today and it has been really funny.
In
addition, we have learnt that we must administrate our time and organize our
group in order to be efficient and get our objectives in the time we have to do
our tasks.
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