HOW CAN WE CHANGE THINGS?

In this post we're going to talk about our own experiences and how we or other teachers in the world can change it. 
In Spanish is explained what we had to do and in english the content. We hope you like it!

WORK

-          Experiencias que no cumplen con capacidad de los estudiantes y atención a la diversidad.

-          Formular una alternativa diferente y realista que no reproduzca lo negativo.

ENTRADA

Wednesday 27th of april, in our organization class we were proposed to write our experiences where teachers didn't do well their job so we have to propose what, how and which methodology or strategy we would used if we had been them.

EXPERIENCES

In physical education one of the tests that we had to do was being 45 minutes running without any stop, you only had the chance to stop once less than 2 minutes. This test cost 2 points of the final note and not everybody had the physical capability of hang all this time. Many students stopped because they couldn’t advance and the teacher didn’t do anything.

In arts we had a drawing notebook in which there were a lot of templates to paint and draw exactly the picture that shows on the example. You can’t draw or paint as you want so no one had the liberty to do what they want. If you didn’t do it right you had a bad mark but if you did exactly the same you got a high mark. We think that this subject shouldn’t be like it because every student should do what they want based on their creativity.

We were obliged in music lessons to play the flute everyday and teachers believed that everybody was able to play it well. A lot of students didn’t know how to play it so it influenced in the mark later. These teachers didn’t attend to students that were more needy and so they need more time to learn how to use it. Teachers should give more attention to this things so in that way students get a better mark at the end of the course.

ALTERNATIVES

In physical education we can do the next things: the ones who aren’t in a good physical form could stop more times in the test or run less time. Also we think that the mark shouldn’t have so influence, we have to give more importance to the participation, group games, effort, attitude… This is the appropriate to do because everyone born with a different physic capacity, if not everybody could do it is a bit exaggerated 2 points of the final mark so this test could value less. Each one is good in a thing and we can’t desmotivate a student because he or she isn’t capable to do something.

In arts, the teacher should give to the students a template with an example of what they have to do that could guide them but not obligate to do exactly the same. We can propose them to do something different too. It’s not worth it that they copy exactly the same, every child is different and we have to give them freedom so they learn by themselves. We think that is good on primary stage that children let free their imagination so their creativity increase second by second. We could propose similar activities but each one could do whatever they want.

In music, teachers could teach better how to use the flute. They should pay more attention to children that don’t know how to play it. Something that teacher could do is let the students play the instrument they want that is on the class so in that way children would learn more instruments and they wouldn’t be worried at all about their marks.

These are the alternatives which we think are the best ones.

If you don't agree about what we propose, you can add a comment and give us your opinion, thank you everyone!!!!