lunes, 14 de mayo de 2012

ATTENTION TO DIVERSITY: DESIGNING A COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY

ATTENTION TO DIVERSITY

OUR CLASS PROPPOSAL


Objectives:

1. To learn the contents about Support Measures for Learners in Early Childhood and School Education.
2. To be able to put in practice the contents explained.
3. Cooperative learning by working in groups.
4. To develop the critical capacity to evaluate what other groups have done.

Materials:

1. 3 murals, one for each target group: hospitalized children, children from rural areas and itinerant students.
2. Post-its of three colors.
3. Power point.

Procedure:

Our collaborative activity is based on the “El album de cromos” activity but we have done some changes in order to make it more participative and creative.
We will show a power point in order to give the needed ideas and the information to the class. Before starting presenting it we will advice the class that they have to pay attention because they will have to work on this information without consulting it again.
 At this moment, we will spare the class in three groups and distribute a mural to each group. We will also distribute post-its. Each group will be assigned a specific color of post-its. 
Each member of the group will have to write in a post-it a proposal for putting into practice and for adapting to their target group the measures explained in the power point presentation. The members of the group will have to talk for not repeating the information and help each other. Once it is finished they will stick post-its on the mural and rotate it to another group.
Now what the groups have to do is to correct and complete the information that the previous groups have stuck. They must put their contributions in the other part of the mural.
 The rotation of murals is done one more time and finally each team will have the card that they had at the beginning with posits of the others teams. This way all groups will be able to add things to each mural and to get more complete information.
 If there is time left, each group will expose the mural to the rest of the class.


Assessment:

During the activity we will be watching how they are working in order to help them if needed.
Also, at the end of the presentation, we could make some questions to see if for example the target group “students of rural areas” have information also about “hospitalized students” and to check if they have learned.
Furthermore each student will have to sign their own posit. This will help us to do an individual evaluation of it (this fact could motivate them to do the work properly).
In order to assess the work group is the reason why we have given a different colored posit to each group. Apart from the post-its, the final exposition will also help us to assess their work.


CONCLUSIONS

Personally, I think that we perform the activity good. We just were a little bit anxious with the time. However, people understand what we pretended to do with this activity: not only explaining  some concepts but make them think about other possible meassures and learn about other points of view.




See our power point presentation

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