Finally, the STAR is here!

Hi everybody! Do you miss me? I am Silvia and this week (as when we started) I have been the star of our group.

I must say that this week my work has been relatively easy because I have been evaluating the questions about the Topic 1 with the rest of my group during the first two hours of class. We have done this activity under the supervision of some members of the Busy Bees’ group. In order to do this activity we have divided the questions of each group and we have selected the questions of one group individually and have read them. After we have expressed to the rest of our group our opinion about the questions that we have read and we have done a little summary about each one too. Finally, we have filled out the different surveys about the questions of each group together.

Secondly, in the third hour of class we have worked with a part of the Power Puff Teachers’ group in order to determinate what questions about the Topic 4 were duplicated and united them in one simple question. We have divided all the questions into three groups and in three groups of three we have analysed them. After all, when the groups have finished our part, we have compared the final questions that each group has obtained in order to create the final list of questions. I must say that this activity has been worse for me because there were some questions that were very similar but they did not say exactly the same, so we did not know if unite them or leave them behind. In spite of everything, finally we can establish these questions about the Topic 4:

• -   A family with two children live in an area with small population centres. To what type of provision would they belong? Explain it briefly.
• -    Angel is a child with some health problems, and because of this he is in the hospital every day and he can’t go to school with his peers. What solution can be given to Angel so he can’t keep up with his school mates’ academic level? Explain it. What is the organization of this type of education?
• -    Can a student of primary education that does not go to school receive home teaching programs in her or his house? Why or why not?
• -  Can Moroccan students that are four years old schools be in the target group of Spanish-Moroccan programs?
• -  Determine the measures of educational attention which are needed according to LOMCE to facilitate the schooling integration of a Moroccan pupil who doesn’t speak Spanish and recently he has accessed in a Spanish school tardly do to he recently arrival from his country, you must determine the specific programs developed and the objectives that LOMCE want to get.
• -  Do Gathered Rural Schools (CRA) and Rural Schools for Education and Innovation (CRIE) have exactly the same target group?
• -  Does the Gathered Rural Schools worked in cities such as Barcelona?
• -  How many types of rural schools are there?
• -  I live in Murcia and I can go to school by bus. Could I study from distance?
• -  If a child has been studying his pre-primary and primary educational courses in a Bilingual School in Spain, does he have the obligation of continuing his studies in Spain?
• -  If a primary education student cannot attend school do to personal circumstances; such as for being hospitalize for a long term or a prolonged stay at home by medical prescription; what time of program would be used with this pupil? Justify your answer.
• -  If your parents work in a circus and your family is constantly moving from one place to another, it is possible to get education at compulsory schooling age? Reason your response. (Repeated by 2 groups)
• -  Imagine that you live in a rural zone and you cannot go to school, which is the best solution and how it works?  (Repeated by 2 groups)
• -  In Primary Education, if a French student is living in Spain but (s)he is enrolled in the French Education System can him or her be within the flexible studies?
• -  Kinds of itinerancy and non-regular schooling?
• -  Laura is 12 years old and she is from a foreign country (Morocco). What is the best education programme for Laura? Why? (Repeated by 3 groups)
• -  Mohamed is an immigrant student who moved into a rural neighborhood called La Aparecida in which there is no school; also both his parents, are unemployed with a low income. What type of schooling would be the most appropriate for this child to be able to attend school? Describe in detail the basic resources the LOMCE would provide him.
• -  Name at least three reasons for a student to choose a distant education. (Repeated by 3 groups)
• -  Nowadays, bilingual schools (Spanish-English) are very common in public schools of Spain. Do they need other curriculum?
• -  Rural schools for educational innovation are destined to pre-primary and primary education. They are organized by pedagogical and curricular aspects with some action plans. What do they want to achieve with these kinds of schools?
• -  There are two kinds of distance education, the "distance education" and "flexible studies in primary education". Related to the second one, what is the purpose of this type? Who can adopt this type of education? Do the pupils of this kind of studies have the same curriculum as the official curriculum? (Repeated by 2 groups)
• -  What are the main characteristics of rural schools?
• -  What are the programmes that compose the bilingual teaching?
• -  What characteristics have bilingual teachers who take part in the Convenio MECD and British Council?
• -  What does the State provide for the Itinerancy and non-regular schools? (Repeated by 2 groups)
• -  What is the relation between Gathered Rural Schools (CRA) and Rural Schools for Education Innovation (CRIE)?
• -  Which are the main differences between CRA and CRIE focused on organization?
• -  Which kind if bilingual teaching does not teach pre-primary?
• -  Who is charged of formalizing the agreement with companies whose itinerancy is permanent during the school year?

       Finally, I must say that I have enjoyed working with members of other groups in this activity and comparing my opinion with the others. However, I have to say that in the second activity, when we have compared all the questions about the Topic 4, besides the problem about the similar questions that I have mentioned before, I have felt a little overwhelmed because, as there were a lot of questions and we were a lot of people, it has been a bit difficult order all the questions, although at the end we have tried to do it in the best way possible.