Tuesday 11 December 2007

OUR ANCESTORS: IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE WITHOUT SHOPS OR CIGARETTE LIGHTERS?

TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY OUR ANCESTORS: IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE WITHOUT SHOPS OR CIGARETTE LIGHTERS?

TIME 13TH of April 2007

DEPARTMENTS History and Pedagogy

PARTICIPANTS Students of first year of Secondary Education and Diversificación

OBJECTIVS To know the importance the feeding in the evolution of the humanity. To learn to make fire like the man of Altamira did it. To discover primitive techniques of hunting.


SÍNTHESIS OF THE ACTIVITY To visit the new cave of Altamira, and to make fire and hunt workshops. The students see some of the tools that were used for the hunting and later will practise with silhouettes.
They will receive some demonstration of how to obtain fire and its importance in transformation of foods, and the consequences that this has for the evolution of the human species. Later they will try to obtain fire by friction.

ASSESSMENT The activity has been valued very positively; the participation of the students has been total, implied in the process of E-A and with a good acquisition of knowledge. All the students have valued very positively this visit and recommend its continuity.


PROPOSITIONS OF CONTINUITY AND IMPROVEMENT It is considered advisable to continue making this activity during the next school years. There are no proposals of improvement.

Healthy eating in kindergarten schools





TITLE OF THE ACTIVITY HEALTHY EATING: WE EAT VARIED, OR THE EDUCATION OF THE TASTE FROM THE KINDERGARTEN SCHOOLS

TIME Second quarterly school year.

DEPARTMENTS Services to the Community

PARTICIPANTS Students of the higher degree of kindergarten Studies.

OBJECTIVS This activity is developed with students of a formative cycle of higher degree; therefore, they are students whose formation is oriented towards the incorporation to the labour market. It is tried to be worked in a double way:

 Formation in habits of healthy food:
• Know and identify the energetic components of foods common in the diet.
• Prepare foods so that it is attractive for the children (colours, forms, etc).
• Acquire skills to plan complementary activities that can have a positive value in favour of varied nourishment.
• Teach the children in election of foods that are not considered like junk food.
 Learn strategies of work with the children of the kindergarten schools, simulating activities to work with a varied ingestion.
• Active knowledge of work by corners.
• Develop abilities of collective presentation of simulations: theatre, games of roll, etc.
• Use theoretical knowledge on the structure of the story and its use in simulations within a frame of education in food habits: Times, variety, autonomy of the infants.

SÍNTHESIS OF THE ACTIVITY In work groups the practice will be prepared, distributing rolls and tasks among each group. Menus for children of kindergarten schools will be elaborated, aiming to them in the strip of age of 28-42 months.
Each team will elaborate a dish of the menu, with emphasis in the considered important factors to favour the approach of the boy towards new foods.
Creation, within the classroom, of a structure of “healthy corners” Each group will elaborate a story, both the text and the support, with the thematic of the healthy feeding.
The activity will be closed with one “merienda” (afternoon meal) with all the students, who will try to simulate an activity with the students of the kindergarten schools, activating all the elaborated materials.

ASSESSMENT 1) Adjustment of the materials to the object of the activity
2) Quality of the materials.
3) Evaluation on the process, from the strategies that are used by the students to solve the difficulties that they find in the accomplishment of the practice.

PROPOSITIONS OF CONTINUITY AND IMPROVEMENT This activity has affected very positively the improvement of the relations between the students, causing with the “merienda” playful situations.
Students of the cycle have considered this activity an obligation to face the real food elaboration: cooking and presentation.
Material of different qualities is prepared and, in general, right for their use in a kindergarten school.
As a way of improvement we will try to do this activity in next courses, but with a process of filming to favour the revision of the process and encouragement of the self-esteem of the students (through analysis of previous expectative of some students and the products that they make, we have been able to affect the self-esteem of some student, and obtained important improvements for the subjects).

STUDY OF CASES OF BULLING IN THE RELATIONS BETWEEN EQUALS IN THE SCHOOL.


OBJECTIVS:
 To detect situations of mistreatment among students and intervention on detected cases.
 To improve the climate of living together in the school, focusing in this task in the relations between equals.
 To favour the development of the respect among companions.
 To facilitate strategies of resolution of conflicts among teenagers from the dialogue, the tolerance and the acceptance of the differences.
SÍNTHESIS OF THE ACTIVITY
1st phase. Diagnostic of the school using a specific scale of school harassment. In
order to avoid mistakes of proof, it is considered to be necessary the use of two different protocols, and so, every test is applied every twoyears. This school year the battery PRECONCIMEI was applied.Dumping of the surveys: of the pupil and of the teacher.
2nd phase. Study of information, elaboration of conclusions and guidelines –
plans of action. Detection of cases with indications of harassment.
3 rd phase: Presentation of conclusions to the tutors, and decision about the plans of intervention, both to each student and to the group, using for this case, the tutorials to implement strategies of resolution of conflicts,
interpersonal skills and of social interaction, and assertive trainings.
These tutorials are done all along the school year.In this phase, the persecuted pupils, bullies, accomplices (observant, non participant), in the situations of risk detected. The situation of harassment will be reported both to the parents of the
victim and to the family of the alleged harassing ones so that they both know the situation and the participants in the process.
PROPOSITIONS OF CONTINUITY AND IMPROVEMENT
Due to the mobility of the student, with the incorporation of students in first year of Secondary Education, and the important number of new pupils in the professional studies, it is considered necessary to continue with the program.
The rotation of standardized protocols is valued positively to do the initial survey.
It is considered important to instruct pupils in accompaniment and mediation. The following school year this aspect will be included inside the program.