Let's define some words!

Hi everyone! I'm Anthea, the translator! As you already know, my role consists on looking for five words related to the weekly activity and defining them. Thus week it has been a bit more difficult, because we have continued working on the last project, which is about the Basics of the Spanish Educational System, and some important words had been defined before. Fortunately, at the end I have been able to find some other words, which are:

Manager

The manager is the person who trains, guides, controls, someone for something: a sport, a contest... but, in this case, this person is in charge of training participants of a game that have to memorize a series of questions, and, then, being able to answer them correctly and in a short time after they had been asked.

The information has been retrieved from: 
- http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/manager
- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/manager 


Strategy
A strategy is a plan which people use to achieve something, mainly for winning a game, defeating a team (sports)..., by following a series of steps and by establishing some goals. It consists on thinking about a way to reach the objectives that have been proposed.

The information has been retrieved from:
- http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strategy
- http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/strategy


Leader
The leader is a someone who directs a person, or a group of people, by being the most important part He/She decides what has to be done, how it is going to be, how the rest of the group is going to work, and what are going to be their goals, objectives, purposes. 

The information has been retrieved from:
- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/leader


Training
The training is a really important part of a project, an exposition, or sport. It is a period of time used for get prepared for a competition or improving the own skills because of they are going to be shown after this.

The information has been retrieved from:
- http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/training


Supporter
The supporter is someone who encourages others to do something as well as they can, mainly when there are two or more teams or groups competing for the same thing. They do it by cheering them up, tellying them that they can do it or they will achieve whatever they want. In short, they are people who tell others phrases for encouraging them to continue.

The information has been retrieved from:
- http://www.thefreedictionary.com/supporter

Did you miss me? I am the BOSS!

Hi bloggers! I am Silvia García and I am here a week more, this time since the role of the facilitator.

This week has been a bit weird because we have not had an activity in group as the others weeks. This time we have organized and selected the questions for the game about the LOMCE, specifically about the topics 1 and 4 (we had to choose ten questions for each topic between all the questions that the groups have done) and we have decided the strategy that we are going to use this week in order to learn these questions, above all in the case of the stars.

For these activities the roles have been:

FACILITATOR: Silvia García martínez

JOURNALIST: Rebeca cascales ribera

ANALYST: maría garcía zamora

TRANSLATOR: anthea clemente sharp

CURATOR-FARMER: alba García subiela

STAR: marina crevillén Fernández

On Thursday 16^th we did the selection of the questions. Our group was divided in two and one part had to work with the group of Keep Kalm and Keep Organized in the Topic 1 and the other part with the group of Busy Bees in the Topic 4. For this activity I tried that each one of us worked with the topic that we had worked more. After, each part of the group organized the questions’ selection in a different way, depending on the other group too.

On Monday 20^th we organized the strategy that we are going to follow this week. In this case I have not divided the work because the star of this week (Marina Crevillén) has been the coach of our next stars and, although we have helped them and given our opinion, she has decided the steps to follow.

I must say that one of the aspects that I have enjoyed more this week has been working with the other groups because we have learnt about how they work and if we can change something in order to improve. In addition, to work with other people has been an interesting experience too, because, although I love my group, it is always good to realise that you can work with other people too in a good way if it is necessary. For instance, when we worked with the Busy Bees in the selection of the questions about the Topic 4, I felt very glad when we could organize the work in a fast and efficient way, although we never had worked together before.

HELLO, THE STAR IS HERE!!!!!!! :D

Hello everybody, this week I have been the Star, but no the normal star if not an special star, since during this week I have been and am, the personal trainer of the two stars of the next week, Alba y Anthea.

My function this week has been and is to prepare the stars and the other members of my group for the game which will be the next week. To do this I have designed a plan to train them.

My plan have been and is the following, to ask each member of my group randomly three questions per person every day of the week. Each day of this week I have asked and ask one topic, which one I told to my partners the day before. The objective of my plan is that all the members of my group know about the questions, and coat the stars, since only they are going to play. I have decided to do this to provide maximum convenience to the stars, since if they study during the week, they only will have to review the questions at the weekend.

I have to say that this week I have enjoyed so much being a personal trainer since I have been like a teacher asking to the students the lesson every day.

Gathering all the resources

Hi bloggers! I'm Alba García and for this activity I've been the curator/farmer. As you may know by now, by job is to gather all the resources we have used to develop the activity and show them in a mindmap.

It seems that "challenge" has become one of my surnames as, one more week, developing my role is a bit tricky as we have continued working on the Basics of the Educational System. However, this week we haven't worked with the official documents, but instead we have worked with the questions which were produced by each of the groups. Because of that, I have decided to cite the group of questions done by each group for the topics we have used, as that is what we have really worked with.

These are the references of the questions, grouped by topic:

* TOPIC 1: An Overview of the Educational System

- Tudela, Y., Peña, M., Hernández, M., Peñalver, M. J., Jiménez, B., López, A., Rueda, G., López, A. (2015). Questions for Topic 1 by Busy Bees.

- Abellán, N., Acosta, P., Álvarez, F. J., Álvarez, M., Álvarez, P., Gómez, A. E., Ibarra, J. (2015). Questions for Topic 1 by Meerkats.

- Ferra, M., Balsas, M., Cruz, A., Bastida, I., Alarcón, M. T., Fernández, L., Camacho, F., Belmonte, S. (2015). Questions for Topic 1 by ItsChOOL.

- García, M., Hernández, N., Terry, H. R., Peral, P., Pérez, C., Ruíz, A. (2015). Questions for Topic 1 by Keep Calm and Keep Organized.

- Sánchez, M., Ruíz, A., Menargues, C., Miralles, Y., Palomo, B., Villalba, M. C., Navarro, M., Lorente, A. (2015). Questions for Topic 1 by Los Umpalumpas.

- Mateo, C., Martínez, E., Tortosa, F., López, C., Higgins, M., Martínez, S., Vicente, A. I., Mula, A. (2015). Questions for Topic 1 by Platypus.
- Cascales, R., Clemente, A., Crevillén, M., García, S., García, A., García, M. (2015). Questions for Topic 1 by Power Teachers.
- Giménez, A., Bas, A., Viudez, B., Cadenas, E., Galián, I., Angosto, I., Aniorte, S. (2015). Questions for Topic 1 by Seven Up!.
- Álvarez, I., Carpena, C., Egea, J., García, M., Góngora, A. C., Grau, L., Molina-Niñirola, M. C. (2015). Questions for Topic 1 by PowerPuff Teachers.

* TOPIC 4: Organisational Variations and Alternative Structures in Primary Education

- Tudela, Y., Peña, M., Hernández, M., Peñalver, M. J., Jiménez, B., López, A., Rueda, G., López, A. (2015). Questions for Topic 4 by Busy Bees.

- Abellán, N., Acosta, P., Álvarez, F. J., Álvarez, M., Álvarez, P., Gómez, A. E., Ibarra, J. (2015). Questions for Topic 4 by Meerkats.

- Ferra, M., Balsas, M., Cruz, A., Bastida, I., Alarcón, M. T., Fernández, L., Camacho, F., Belmonte, S. (2015). Questions for Topic 4 by ItsChOOL.

- García, M., Hernández, N., Terry, H. R., Peral, P., Pérez, C., Ruíz, A. (2015). Questions for Topic 4 by Keep Calm and Keep Organized.

- Sánchez, M., Ruíz, A., Menargues, C., Miralles, Y., Palomo, B., Villalba, M. C., Navarro, M., Lorente, A. (2015). Questions for Topic 4 by Los Umpalumpas.

- Mateo, C., Martínez, E., Tortosa, F., López, C., Higgins, M., Martínez, S., Vicente, A. I., Mula, A. (2015). Questions for Topic 4 by Platypus.

- Cascales, R., Clemente, A., Crevillén, M., García, S., García, A., García, M. (2015). Questions for Topic 4 by Power Teachers.

- Giménez, A., Bas, A., Viudez, B., Cadenas, E., Galián, I., Angosto, I., Aniorte, S. (2015). Questions for Topic 4 by Seven Up!.

- Álvarez, I., Carpena, C., Egea, J., García, M., Góngora, A. C., Grau, L., Molina-Niñirola, M. C. (2015). Questions for Topic 4 by PowerPuff Teachers.

And these are the references used by the translator:

- Manager - Definition for English-Language Learners from Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary. (n.d.). In Learner's Dictionary. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/y3Mct3

- Manager - Definition of manager by The Free Dictionary. (n.d.). In The Free Dictionary. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/w2v0us

- Strategy - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary. (n.d.). In Merriam-Webster. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/GkOnU9

- Strategy - definition of strategy in English from the Oxford dictionary. (n.d.). In Oxford Dictionaries. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/kds1pN

- Leader - Definition of leader by The Free Dictionary. (n.d.). In The Free Dictionary. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/LIwBgW

- Training - Definition for English-Language Learners from Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary. (n.d.). In Learner's Dictionary. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/05BXOo

- Supporter - Definition for English-Language Learners from Merriam-Webster's Learner's Dictionary. (n.d.). In Learner's Dictionary. Retrieved from http://goo.gl/F2OKvD

Well, it's the turn of the analyst! Read below and enjoy with our task!

Hi bloggers! I'm María García and this week I have been the ANALYST of this activity! As you know, my work in this role is to explain you how we have worked (as a group and individually), the content that we have learned from this task and his importance to us.

 

As you have already known, we continue with the activity of Spanish Educational System. Each week, we have made different tasks with the same topic. This week, we had to organize the questions that all the groups are done for making sure that any question was repeated. Also, we reviewed all the questions, according to the survey that Linda gave us. Then, we mixed with other groups and we had to chose what questions were the best. Finally, we decided what strategy we will use for reviewing the questions to our stars.

 

The task of this week hasn't been busier than others that we have already done because we did the work of this activity in class with our partners.

 

We are working with the LOMCE, the present Spanish Educational law and I think that it is so important that we work with this because we have to know how is organized our Educational System. Maybe, you are thinking that the LOMCE has a lot of information but in the way that we are working with, it isn't difficult to know the main principles. Moreover, as future teachers it's important to know the law and how we can organize it for understanding it better.  

 

With this big activity we have worked with some tools and we have interacted with several groups from the class, that it was so good. We have worked with groups as PowerpuffTeachers, Bussy Bees or KeepCalm&KeepOrganized and I think that it was a great experience. We could see how they have worked during the past weeks and we have applied different points of view. That way to work have given us more motivation and several ideas to applying in our group. For all of us, this kind of group dynamics have taught some values as mixed all the ideas in a way what we agree, take other points of view, the importance of teamwork, etc. Because is not the same working with your own group (Powerteachers) that divide you and working with other group. It's different but in a good way. So, I think that it was the best part of this activity.

And you maybe think, there's any bad time in the task?

Well, I think that there aren't bad times because we have got on with the others groups and the task was not boring because we have worked in class and we have interacted with many people so it was very dynamic in my opinion. However, I think that it wasn't easy choosing ''the best'' questions because there are a lot of them and we only could chose 10. Besides, maybe you think that a question is great but other person doesn't think the same. So, is complex but as we have been ''a group and a half'' we have shared several points of view and we have decided ''the best'' by us. Nevertheless, if I have to say one ''bad part'' I will say that the ''boring'' part of this activity was reviewing if there were repeated questions. But we had to do because by this way we have eliminated the same questions.

 

In my opinion, we have to continue working like that because we usually have the task without problems between us and we always help each other when some of us doesn't understand something of the activity. I think that as we move in time, we are improving and now we get comfortable with the subject and with all the instruments that we are using. Although this activity may seem long, we are working a lot and the next week we will do a game that I have the feeling that it will be fun. And with this long career we are learning a lot about LOMCE and the most important thing: We are learning it step by step and I think that with the game we will remember this activity and the content.

 

One of the most important purposes that I think this activity has are knowing the law because this is not something that you study and you forget the following week. Although the law changes, now the LOMCE is the law and it is something that is in our lives right now. There are many news about the Educational System in the news and I think that when you are watching or reading something about that it is pleasant to know what are the news talking about. So, it is important to know how is our environment. Because we are going to be future teachers and what kind of teachers we will be if we are not interested about our Educational System?

Besides, this kind of activity is related with our academic life because it doesn't matter what subject you are studying, the law is applying to all the Educational System.

 

Finally, I want to say that Powerteachers have passed great times working with the other groups and that we are trying to do the best of us.

 

I hope you like our posts and that you visit our blog every week.

 

ADVERTISEMENT: Next week, we will do a game... And it will be so exciting!! So, keep attentive the next week! Our stars are working to do the best of them!!

The JOURNALIST is here to tell you everything of this week!

Hello everyone! I'm Rebeca Cascales Ribera and this week my job is being the JOURNALIST of Power Teachers!

This week, we continue working into the LOMCE topic, but specially into the questions that we made during our Easter holidays. When we finished the class of Monday, where our group with some components of Bussy Bees as Bernabé, Miriam, Yolanda and María,  checked and valued the different questions of topic 1, Linda explained us the next activity into the divided class. 

On Monday 13th, we divided by groups and some components of PowerPuffTeachers as Carmen, Lucía and Ana came with us to work together with topic 4. Our job to that class was copying every questions and if some of them were repeated, we must take the most complete and the better one. We also must check every mistake that we found.

We divided into three groups to copy some questions by separate and do it quickly, the groups were composed by Ana, Marina and Silvia; Lucía, Carmen and Marina; and Anthea, Alba and me, as you can see into the photos.

Then, when we compared every questions and we decided what of them were the good ones, the star of our group uploaded into her post and show to everybody the Topic 4's questions.

On  the other side, on Thursday 16th,  we were also divided by groups, but this time the divided group was the mine; Alba, Silvia and Anthea were with  Bussy Bees and, Maria and me (Rebeca) were with Keep Kalm and Keep Organized.

In my group, while I was looking for the whole questions of Topic 1 into the class' blogs, they divided the whole cards into three groups to be quickly. We take the best questions of every groups and we decided the good and complete questions to the next session activity. 

On Monday 20th, we had hadn't any homework those weekend, so we didn't know what we were going to do in that class. Linda came and asked the coach or the trainer of each group the methodology that we're going to use to study the topics. Then, she told us that we had time to study and we had the three hours to prepare our next weeks' stars.

In this role, another important task apart from telling the weeks' story, is recommending two blogs, one of our classmates and another of Education. So, my blogs of this week are the following:

To start with our classmates' blog, I'm going to recommend the PowerPuffTeachers one. I have been seeing every blog of the class and this was the one which strikes me because apart from the name that I really love, the design of the blog is very feminist and very beautiful.  I have to say that the organisation is very good too. On the right side, we can see a welcome to everybody who visit them, a photo of them, the visits with a map, the Twitter, every posts separated by months or by role and their names. As I have read, it's a very interesting role and they are working hard and do it as better as they can. I hope you keep like this and I have to congratulate you girls!

 

 URL: http://thepowerpuffteachers.blogspot.com.es/

On the other side, I'm going to speak about an Education blog called "Sentada en un pupitre de Primaria". I have been read it and it's a very interesting and complete blog. To explain better, it's a blog where you can find some resources of Primary Education. The design is very entertaining because is for children. The organisation is the normal one, in the right side you can find the Creative Common Liscence, the Practices 2.0, the email, some books' sales, the visits, Twitter, Facebook, Scholar calendar, everything that they have uploaded by months and by topic and finally, the ISBN of the blog. And in the upper part, there are some options as their information. Then, the lasts posts are very interesting too, for example resources to have better orthography, some tools for doing comics, some books' recommendation, etc. I hope you visit this blog because it can be useful for ourselves in a future and for everyone who want to use it.

URL: https://sentadaenunpupitredeprimaria.wordpress.com/
 

I hope you really enjoy with us and with our posts. See you soon bloggers!