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Hello everybody! This week in class we talked about Gathered Rural Schools (specifically about one in Asturias ) and we found it very interesting, that is why we decided to dedicate this week's post to this topic. What are Gathered Rural Schools? They are units that function as a center but in different localities; in each locality there are one or several tutors, and there are itinerant teachers. The level of these schools is of Infant Education and Primary Education, and in the same class there may be different levels, since there are children of different ages. There may be only one classroom or there may be different groupings since sometimes the number of students is enough to have more than one. These groupings give rise to heterogeneous classrooms with very different needs and dynamics from those of urban centers, so they need to use different methodologies from those centers. Objectives. - Avoid the uprooting of the students of their place of origin. - Sup...

We have found this conference really interesting because it has shown us the reality of being a teacher who works with pbl. She also gave us her opinion about why is pbl helpful and why pupils learns more with it. She also told us to create a PBL all together, which allow us to get to know how it works. In order to make our project, we have been doing a research and we have found some examples of it:

Nowadays the world is changing and we are part of this world, that means, we have to innovate and follow the process. In this development is involve the education, which aspects are renewed, one of them is the PBL (Proyect Based Learning). When one school start with the process of the change is innovating and the rest around him could think is a bad idea, but what really happen is that not all the schools are prepared for the shift. When the parents and people observe this process of teaching, what they see are hapiness on their chlid, and activities out of the ordinary. That's would be a scheme like this one:                                                   But the reality is not the simple above, this process needs a guide plan done by one or more teachers, effort, steadfastness, imagination, and participation of everybody, so the final result is the easy...

Hello everybody!   We have proposed to make some changes in our blog to make it more attractive, for example, we will try to make it more  c o l o r f u l . So this week we start with this challenge ... We hope to achieve it !!! In today's blog we are going to talk about the Bloom's Taxonomy. Bloom's Taxonomy is a framework for establishing a hierarchy for educational goals.  It consist on six categories: Knowledge ,  Comprehension , Application , Analysis , Synthesis , and Evaluation.  T he first one, knowledge, is the necessary precedent for putting the rest categories into practice. The rest of them are classified as "skills and abilities". W e are going to insert an image in which the different six categories are explained. Its author, Benjamin Bloom , created it in 1956, but after, in 2001, his work was modified.  Here we leave the link of a video that explains this Taxonomy (its categories, its evolution, how to...

 Today we are going to dedicate the post to talk about the PBL method and the CANVAS . Through the PBL we get tools that allow us to effectively incorporate innovation for teaching and learning. The CANVAS allows us to enhance creativity by designing learning projects easily and visually.  If we use the CANVAS in the PBL method, we can put in it how the project we want to do will be.  Here we leave an example of a template that could be used: Now, we are going to give an example of PBL in Spain, specifically in a school in San Pedro del Pinatar, there the teacher Marina Tristán, has carried out for eight weeks a work in which mathematics, social sciences and Spanish language and literature are linked. In this project 27 students participated, and each of them had to make their own diary. With this work the students learned and discovered many things, including constellations, interpreting maps, the usefulness of time zones ... Here we leave the link...

During this week we have been talking about curriculums and about how/when/what to teach or evaluate. These are tough questions for teachers because it is important to get their students focus on the subjet and make it interesting for them. In this blog entry, we would like to search some videos which we have found during our research about pbl. With the first one, we have been able to clarify our knowledge about projets. In the second one, it is seen the result of a project based on dinosaurs and how students have learnt about science and art.