Ideal school reflections (Blanca)

Educational league:

First of all I must say congratulations to this team not only because of the effort that they made doing the video, but with the fact that the really look as a team, as a great and united one. They all had clear objetives and task to achieve and it obviosly help them to work in a better wat. This is something really important in cooperative learning, and from my point of view needs to be valuated in a possitive way.

Talking about the video I would say that the main idea of it is great and that is really creative. The fact of the roles of teachers and students in a class helps a lot at following the concepts that they wanted to talk about.

It is a really complete video, with clear explanations, references, examples… (and of course I had to mention that the drawings of it are amazing!), the methodology of the school (constructivism one) was really well explained and argued, and the idea of an inclusive school is really sucessful.

But the only thing I could say as a constructive criticism is that I miss a more detailed context part, with an explanation of the number of students they would have in their ideal school, how would it be profitable and deeper explanations in some aspects of their ideal school such as values.

Apart from that there is nothing more to say, well done Educational League, keep going!!!

Ana and Marta:

Being concious about the fact that Ana and Marta had some troubles with their group and that they ended up being separate and with it they have to start again from the very beggining and that they finally got their work on time as the rest of the other groups, I would say they did a very nice work.

To start, I would say that they have proposed a very coherent and nice school. The methodologies that they wanted to work on with were well explained and with good autor references.

Tthey proposed good solutions to face different problems situations such as the “Semáforo” project against bullying.

And something that I specially like was the values that they pretend to have in their ideal school, fosting critical thinking so students may have their own ideas in a peacful enviornment.

Some aspects that could have been improved are the fact that Marta speaks sometimes very fast and it is difficult to follow her, and that they could have made the video in a more dinamic way to make it more catchy because I got a bit distracted ocasionally.

And also the structure of the video as sometimes I had the feeling that they were repeting things because it wasn´t complete organized.

I would like to finish this reflexion mentioning their real school model, it was very well explained and I really loved the “3 little pigs”methaphor.

You did a great work girls! Keep working this way!!!

Los Gochos:

Having a good actitude at working time is essential, and that is a really strong point to take in to account in this group.

It seems that they worked a lot, in a very unificated way, and that it´s clearly reflected on their project.

First of all I would start saying that I got a bit confused when I heard Miguel talking in Spanish and the rest of them in English, but at the end of the video they explained why they have decided to do it that way so I finally understood it.

I would highlight the fact that their video is really a complete, but I kind of miss some explanations of some theoretical facts that were mentioned on the video and that I didn´t know before as the “Waldorf method”. Anyway everything is very well explained on their video guide so It is really helpful.

I think that is the only thing I could tell them to improve, because the rest of the work was really well done. They include lots of stadistics, references, datas… they explain in a really good way ICT and how to use them in a class and the different materials they could work with. Leadership was well explained as well, they talked about really nice and creative ideas such as having animals in the school to foment a better relation with the environment…

And of course it is worht mentioning the super cool end of the video, a muscial explaining ideas and values of their school!! I really had a great time with that part of the video,

Los Gochos you rock!!!!

Fernweh:

I want to start this reflexion talking about how much I liked they way that they explained why their school was named like that, and with it, the definition of Sinergia.

Their video was very clear, they did great explanations about the values they want to teach with in their school and the importance of citizenship and the different methodologies that they want to put in to practice, convining constructivism and working in projects theories with the multiple intelligences one.

Another possitive fact to highlight is the idea of a bidirectional education, which it was really well explained.

Some aspects that they could have improved are the dinamic of the video because sometime it got monotonous and maybe having a deeper explanations in some aspects such as the spaces and structure of the building (althought the 3D model of the school was nice) or solutions programs to face bad situations as bullying…

As a final conclusion I would say they did a nice work, it is not difficult to see the big effort they made doing this project and how much they have developed their skills as a team.

Congratulations Fernweh!!!

Travelchers:

Fromm y point of view, this video was especially difficult to do it because of the fact that they used toys in different scenarios and that meant that they had to build lot of different decorations.

I really liked the fact that they were really realistic with their objectives and personal commitments so I think that is something we should take in to account.

They did a very nice relationship between the name of the group and the beginning of the video, so that made it catchy from the very first minute, althought it is true that at the end it turned up being a bit boring becuase it was really long. But in the other hand, the fact that subtitles were included was really helpful to follow it.

They explained in a very clear way and with lots of practical examples their methodologies and cooperative learning (explaining the jigsaw method).

They also did a nice work explaining the leadership and promoting good references of different authours in whom they were basing their theories.

The only thing I would say as a costructivism critism is that as I said before, it was too long, which made us getting lost and a bit boring, so I would recommend you to summarize in a better way next time!

Good job Travelchers!!!!

Contrasters crew:

This group made a great job explaining the context (especially the economic part).

At the time they were explaining their ideais they included different references and resources of authours so that is great.

The fact that the wanted to have an inclusive school was really well explained and with it their decisión of not having a Bilingual programm to help inmigrants students to adapt to our educational system, culture and language in a better way.

They also explained nice possible projects about people with learning dissabilities, the importance of ICT…

A really nice part of the video that I really want to highliht is the one of the values, as it is really well explained and argueed.

But in the other hand, I would say that they need to organize themselves in a better way becuase the structure of the video (as the information is a bit mixed) is not well built.

And I also think that the fact that they had more time to develop their job should also be considerated, becuase althought they had the same problem as Ana and Marta because they were in the same team at the beginnig, they did it two weeks after the girls and so, they had more opportunities to improve it.

Despite this their work was very well done, I see that they are learning how to work in a cooperative way and that is great!!