Reflection about presentations of 11/02/2014

The day 11 of february was a first day of presentations in our class. We have divided our class in groups, base groups as it is composed for 4 or in some cases 5 persons, is groups for a long time and heterogeneus groups, at least my group.  The project is about cooperative learning so not only we have a presentation, we have apply this theory in our owns groups to do the project, for example the distribution of team roles, each member have a different task, we must have a team plan for the organization, and carry out a self-assesment and co-assesment of other groups.

The first group that presented was KIA (kids in action) composed by Ana González, Ana Escribano y Pablo Magallares. Their project is about the planets in the solar system  and for teach it they use the jigsaw technique. The first that they showed us was the plane tables, their personal commitments, that's a interesting  fact because the rest of the class we can see how they try to improve this deficiencies. Also they showed us what responsabilities had each one and their objectives. My prefer session is which the children have to construct a model of  the solar sistem because i think that it's a good way to learn of fun way the planets, understand in which consist the solar sistem, and also they develop their creativity skill. I couldn't say something bad although I suposed that everything can be improve. Also it's a point for they that they solved a big problem with the walkout of Sara.

The second group was The Minions composed by Ainara, Elisabeth, Raúl, Irene and Isabel they work with the music subject and their sessions was divided in 3 sessions. They used the jigsaw technique as the previous team. Once stablished the base groups, they create experts groups so that each group is experts in the different kind of instrument ((air, string and percussion). One thing that i didn't like is that they didn't an introduction to their work, the index don't exist so until the end you don't have a complete idea about the structure of the work. In general I think it's a good project because is original and dynamic and at the end of the sequence they do a diary when the students reflect about what they have learned and at the same time practice other skills like writing.