Presentation of 20/02/2014

LASH team composed by Laura Borné, Héctor, Andrea and Sara Sánchez; has presented today his work about the different types of diet. They started with the index of their work explaining all the parts it had, then they showed us their team plan in which they put their objecitves. As many groups, some of these objectives were improve talking in public and expressing ourselves in English; I know that for us is difficult to speak in public but talking in English make it even more difficult so we have to make an extra effort.
After that, they presented their didactic sequence about the types of diet for 1st grade of Primary. They divided it in 5 sessions. In the first session they made base teams to divide the information about the different types of diet so that each one had a part of the general topic; so they used the Jigsaw technique. In the second session they took children to the computer class, so that they can look for more information. I find interesting this activity because children will learn the best pages to search information, they will do it better and they will develop their critical skills. Due to the digital society we have nowadays, it is important to include technological tools at school. In the third session they made a mural with children about all they have learned so they have the opportunity to be creative, participate in a group and integrate with the rest of the children. In the forth session they made again base teams and students had to explain each other what they have learned and feel like if they were teachers. In the last session they made a game using TGT technique (team games tournaments). Although they didn't want to make this game a competition, at the end they did because they gave points to the children who answer the questions so at the end there will be one winner and the rest will be loosers. A good idea to improve this game, is try to make different prizes so that everyone can receive one (to the most creative answer, to the team in which all the members answer at least one question, etc.)
They include a self-evaluation and a coevaluation after the third session. These ideas are great but they made some mistakes. They used difficult vocabulary and expressions so children won't understand them; if they did easy questions instead of complicated affirmations, children would understand them better. However, there is one thing I liked because in the assessments instead of putting bad, regular, good and very good; they put good and very good and I think this is a motivating thing for children.With this, teachers expect that everybody will do at least good. Nobody will do their work bad because everyone will try it, some will do better and others less; but everyone will try and make an effort. To finish the work they included the bibliography.
I like this presentation because they have made a big effort and have checked their past mistakes. They didn't use audiovisual material like for example videos, so this makes the presentation a little bit boring, but at the end I found it interesting and a good content for children to learn. They made many acitivities in which children have to work in a cooperative way, being active and respecting each other.