Wingardium Leviosa

Gonzalo Gallego Clemente

1º MEP-B.

CREATIVE SCHOOLS: “GIVING AN ANSWER TO STUDENT NEEDS IN THE 21ST CENTURY.”

My ideal school.

The school I would create referring to the students needs in the 21^st century would be:

Values.

The docents in my  school will work towards an ethic and educational way of teaching in which values such as; respect, collaboration, cooperation, honesty, effort... Are implicit in the methodologies they employ with the pupils looking towards a global education. In this school the teachers will provide academic and social skills equally, always looking towards the good of the children (Wanderlust). The phrase that will collect all this values and would be the slogan of my school is: “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think” . Margaret Mead

Building and installations.

The main point we part from in this issue is to create different spaces for different activities depending on what we want to work (Team peark). If we want to work sports we will need an area to practice them but if we want to work the pupils’ writing we would do it in a quiet environment. But this is not adjustable only towards the general point of view as I have explained it is also to adapt the classes to the knowledge is being given inside that space. If we want to teach science we will have green areas where teachers could give self-experience lessons to pupils where the knowledge is reflected in nature, not books. (Vídeo Youtube 2º) Another thing referring to the classrooms I will design for my school would be:

Classrooms would be open, luminosity and colorful areas that incite children to enter and explore by themselves this spaces, always giving a place to curiosity that is where the real learning is hide. This classroom will have a mobile furniture that could be adapted to the different methodologies the teachers will employ. (Musical chairs.)

And finally, our installations and docents will be adapted to every child and this means from adapting the toilet for a disabled child, to have docents trained in sign language for deaf-mute pupils.  (Crónicas viajeras.)

Methodologies.

We need to explore more on how a children thinks in order to create attractive methodologies that represent fun and freedom rather than boredom and obligation. In my school the pupils will develop the all different dimensions of thinking but I will ask my docents to center in developing critical and creative thinking (Crónicas viajeras.) through cooperative learning based in the children interest. I will ask them a formative evaluation, asswell,  of every child in which their difficulties and problems are reflected not in a few numbers. (Musical chairs.) And for last our docents we will have the opportunities to take new formation courses  on methodologies, technologies… Anything they think is useful for their work. (Team Perk.)

Schedule.

In my school as I have said before pupils will be taught in social and academic skills equally. So the time will be distributed moreless equally in this two disciplines. For each 90 minutes of class working, the pupils will enjoy of 45 minutes of break. Then, the pupils day would be:

90 MIN CLASS (Math, language, science…) - 45 MIN BREAK - 90 MIN CLASS (Math,language,science…)-  45 MIN BREAK AND GO HOME.

Finally their journal would have a total of 4.5 hours, starting at 9 a.m and finishing classes at 13:30 pm trying to leverage learning through enjoyment. (Amigos del football.)

Parents and teachers.

We are looking towards an union between parents and teacher towards the education of their children. Teachers and parent need to cowork in order to not confuse the child and give them a properly education, we need to eliminate the prejudices that are over the teacher proffesion and create a relation of friendship where friend- means child and -ship means education referring to the education that need to be given through teachers and parents. This is why my school will have open days where parents could come to a class a participate with their child following the dynamic of the lesson. (Crónicas viajeras.)

TICs.

Well, nowdays, we are surrounded of technology: TV, laptops, smarthphones, tablets, watches... The technological revolution has reached the all aspects of hour daily life, at least, in countries from the first world. For example, since a person wakes up, he or she does use of technology turning on the light. Then he/she has to have breakfast, getting out the milk that is in the fridge to stay cold, or making a coffe using the coffe maker either making the toast in the toaster. Afterwards he/she has to dress up for; school,work,college... But before that he/she uses the shower to clean up her/himself. So his/her day hasn't begun and he/she already has used several technological objects in order to follow with a regular day. So now is time to introduce technology not as a resource as a methodology technique inside the educational world. Even though my school won’t have all the ultimate technologies, we will mix traditional tools and technologies always trying to promote education and values.

House tournament. (D.T.A)

In my group we have created a tournament in which the all school and all their members are include. We will make an heterogeneous group mixing ages, sizes, razes… And they will “healthy” compete to gain the tournament in which there are no losers, the all school wins.  In class these group of people will receive points as they do things right but not only in class, in a break if a teacher sees a good attitude from a pupil, this pupil could receive points aswell for his/her group. Finally the last day, would be a celebration day in which the winner would be revealed.