Time for the references!

Hi everyone! I'm Anthea, the curator this week once more. As you already know, this role consists on collecting all the references and creating a mind map including all of them.

The reference for the literature is:

Plan de convivencia escolar (2006, May). Retrieved May 4, 2015, from http://www.marianoaroca.es/files/plan_convivencia.pdf

The references used in the definitions are:

Coexistence Plan (n.d.). In CIPFP Mislata. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://ifpsmislata.edu.gva.es/joomla_EN/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=35

Conflict. (2010). In Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conflicted

Documentary. (n.d.). In Merriam Webster. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/documentary

What is a Leader Team? (n.d.). In Study.com. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-team-leader-description-role-responsibilities.html

Video. (n.d.). In BusinessDictionary.com. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/video.html

The analysis of the week is here!

Hi bloggers! I am Silvia, the analyst of this week and, as the own name says, I am going to analyse the best and the worst points if the week and the activity that we have realized.

This week we have worked with the Coexistence Plan. More specifically, we have had to do a video resolving a problem in the school that other classmates have created (in our case the group 7UP).

In my opinion the best part of the activity has been that thanks to the Coexistence Plan we have learnt about how different schools can resolve the problems with students, parents or even teachers and, in the same way, now we know that each school has its own Coexistence Plan and we must adhere to it. On the other hand, if I have to talk about the worst part I must say that find and interpret the Coexistence Plan has been a bit difficult because it was not very clear in our specific case and we had to adapt it as we thought that was the best, although in part, even if it was a bit hard because at first we were a bit confused about if we would be doing it well, it has helped us in order to learn about interpret documents and adapt them to the case that you want to. Even if these documents are not clear of the issue that you want to work. So, at the end, even the worst part of the activity has helped us for our future, in which I do not think that all is going to be easy and clear and we must learn to adapt ourselves to the different situation using those things that are in your hand.

Regarding the work in group I think that this has been a wonderful week in this aspect because we have worked all together in order to do the video and I have loved it. With this I mean that while one was recording a scene as an actress other was recorded as the camera and the other were helping doing the script, so we were working all together in the same place, laughing when we had to repeat a scene or we had got stupid (although funny) ideas for the scrip, a situation that sometimes we cannot enjoy because some activities are not so cooperative. For instance, the past weeks were easier and faster to work individually, although after we united the work, a thing that although effective did not permit us to work together as this week. However, there has been some bad parts too, or instance the worse part of the activity has been to coordinate all the materials and even ourselves for doing the documentary, because in some moments something was missing or the camera was without battery and we did not have the charger, so we had to meet another day in order to finish the video. In my opinion, we maybe must be more careful with this type of things because we could save a lot of time in the future, although I think that this has been in part because we had a lot of things in our heads and the good part is that thanks to this we have learnt the lesson for the next.

So, taking into account what I have said previously, without any doubt a thing that we must maintain as a group is our work together, helping one to other and offering ourselves voluntaries when there is something to do. However it is true too that, although in my opinion our work in group is very good, we must concentrate more in the activities in the future because sometimes we take a lot of time for putting to do the activities and it only implies that we lose an important time that we can use for other things, above all at this period of the year.

Finally, I think that thanks to this activity, as I have said before, we have learnt about what measures we can take when we have some problem in the school and, in the same way, if the coexistence plan of our school takes into account all the measures that it must have. So, taking into account these points this activity can be very useful for our future, as in the degree as in our job, because what are the steps that we must follow for resolving problems (and that we must take into account all the perspectives and opinions of the people implicated) a thing that, we like it or not, probably we are going to confront more frequently that we think. In the same way we can already see the great number of problems in schools that there are. For instance, when we watch the news, in which usually appears problems with teachers, students, parents… A fact that demonstrates the importance of knowing what we can or cannot do in order to do our job in the best way possible. 

FACILITATOR

Hi bloggers! I'm Alba García and I've been the facilitator during this week's task, which was on the Coexistence Plan.

As we had to do a video about  the case described by one of the groups, I acted as the director of the video, providing ideas and discussing with my team-mates where we could film and how we could represent the case. 

Furthermore, we also wrote together the scrip of the video. This way, I made sure that everyone felt represented in the video as all of our ideas would be taken into account in the production of the activity. Besides, when one of the components of our group had to leave, I took her place and became also the camera person. 

I also assigned one role to each person:

Rebeca Cascales would be the School Head.

Anthea Clemente would be the assisstant.

Marina Crevillén would be the camera person.

Silvia García would be the anchor.

María García would be the interviewer.

And finally, I would be the director of the video.

So the video was finished on time, I made sure that the interviews were subtitled by Friday and that the video was mounted that same day.

The star has returned!!

Hi bloggers!! I'm María García and this is my second experience as a STAR! Although in this activity we haven't developed a speech in front of the class, the stars of this week had to be the journalist of a documentary about the coexistence plan! 

We have done a documentary about a student that change his behaviour because of the divorced of his parents, and we decided to do a video recreating the news. So, in the video you can see Silvia as the presenter, Rebeca as the school head of the school where the problem ''took'' place and I as the journalist. 

My role in the video consisted to explain the situation that occured in a school, but is the school head (Rebeca) who has told the current situation of the children and the measures that the school took for resolving this case. Besides, I made the interview to her and I did 4 interviews to four persons (2 street persons, a pedagogist and a future teacher). I had to investigate and see all the perspectives of the case through the testimony of the school head and the opinions of some people, keeping the contact with the presenter (Silvia) as the real news. 

I really had fun recording the video in the outsides of the University and in the streets of Murcia. Although my experience as a star wasn't in the class, it was great recreate a documentary and see how a school can resolve problems like this according to his coexistence plan. With this activity you realize that in any school, there are children that can change totally their behaviour and their marks because of personal problems, or it may be a problem between a teacher or a child or with the parents of him/her. For this situation, we, as a future teacher, have to be prepared to know how we can act and what we can see to choose the correct measures to take. 

Yesterday, each star of the group put their videos on the screen of the computer and show to the rest of the class their documentaries. There are very good videos and I want to say to my classmates that the videos were great! 

To end with I want to say thank you to the rest of Powerteachers because even they don't appear in the video it isn't mean that they don't do anything! They direct the video, they recording the documentary and they help to develop the script and the whole situation that we had to show. So, thank you girls!!

I hope you enjoy with our activity and that you visit our blog! 

Here you have the video of our documentary.

We hope you like it!! 

The TRANSLATOR is here to solve your doubs!

Hi bloggers! I'm Rebeca Cascales Ribera and this week my role has been the TRANSLATOR one. Apart from this role, this week I have worked as an actress because I have appeared into the documentary as a School Director and I have to prepare my paper to show me off.  

As you can see into the other posts, the TRANSLATOR is the person in charge of chose five words related to the topic's week and define it with her own words. The week's words are the following:

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   Coexistence Plan

The Coexistence Plan is a document prepared my each educational centres that prevents and achieves the correct environment for the class; the procedures of acting with some behavioural problems to solve or to avoid it. Inside this plan, the Tutorial Plan is also important because is the idea that the tutor and some teachers have to sort  the troubles out.

Coexistence Plan (n.d.). In CIPFP Mislata. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://ifpsmislata.edu.gva.es/joomla_EN/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=35

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   Conflictive

'Conflictive' is an adjective that comes from the substantive 'conflict' which means a disagreement or a contradiction, something difficult to result. In this topic we speak about a 'Conflictive situation' that has to be solved with the Coexistence Plan by the School Leader Team in several and specific cases.

Conflict. (2010). In Dictionary.com. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/conflicted

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      Documentary

A documentary is a video or a relating that shows a literature review, something based into documents, and something that has been proved and worked. In this task, the documentary is the tool that we must do to show our answer to the conflictive problem. 

Documentary. (n.d.). In Merriam Webster. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/documentary

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 School Leader Team

The School Leader Team is the group in charge of the direction, instructions and guidance of the pupils, also be known as a team, with the aim of achieving a certain goal. An effective leader knows her team members strengths, weaknesses and motivations. Each member has some roles and has a specific job. 

What is a Leader Team? (n.d.). In Study.com. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://study.com/academy/lesson/what-is-a-team-leader-description-role-responsibilities.html

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      Video

A video is a visual multimedia source that can include some images, pictures, sounds and music. It is transmitted in a screen and you can edit and form it. In this topic, we have done the documentary with a video to show it in class in front of the whole class by the screen.

Video. (n.d.). In BusinessDictionary.com. Retrieved May 7, 2015, from http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/video.html

Thank you for your attention and I hope you really enjoy with us! See you soon bloggers!

Information: where is it from?

Hi everyone! I'm Anthea and today  I am here as the curator farmer to let you know where the references are from. As we have been working in the same project of the previous weeks, we only have as new the translator references.

Here you have the references of the translator:

Snakes and Ladders. (2015, April 18). In Wikipedia. Retrieved April 28, 2015, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakes_and_Ladders

Heathfield, S. (n.d.). What is a team? . In About. Retrieved fromhttp://humanresources.about.com/od/teambuilding/f/teams_def.htm

Team . (n.d.). In Oxford Dictionaries . Retrieved April 28, 2015, fromhttp://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/team

Consideration. (n.d.). In Merriam-Webster. Retrieved April 28, 2015, fromhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consideration

Opponent. (n.d.). In Merriam-Webster . Retrieved April 28, 2015, fromhttp://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/opponent

Opponent . (n.d.). In Collins Dictionary. Retrieved April 28, 2015, fromhttp://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/opponent

Farlex . (n.d.). Rule . In The free dictionary . Retrieved April 28, 2015, fromhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/rule

Rule. (n.d.). In Dictionary.com. Retrieved April 28, 2015, fromhttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rules

Snakes and Ladders' STAR

Hi bloggers! I'm Alba García and, once more, I've been the star! This week my duty as a star has been shared with Anthea, as she has been the second star. We have had to study the different topics about the LOMCE so we could answer correctly some questions about those topics in the game Snakes and Ladders.

As the journalist has said, the game took part on Monday and on Thursday. We climbed some ladders, went down on some snakes (damn that snake on 82!) but finally, the most exciting move came... In our last turn, we went up in a ladder from 70 to 94, answered the question asked by our teacher correctly, rolled the dice, got a 6, and moved to 100! AND WE ANSWERED THAT LAST QUESTION CORRECTLY AND BECAME THE WINNERS OF THE GAME!!!!!!  

This task has been the one in which the stars have had the most responsibility as it was up to us winning the game and getting the prize or losing. Maybe this was just a game, but being responsible for the performance of a whole group of people could also happen to us in many other situations in life, not only in the academic and professional aspects, but also in the personal ones. On the one hand, when we become teachers and get a job at a school, which I hope will be soon, our head of department and the school head will be the ones representing the whole department and the whole school, respectively. One day, we may also become heads of department or even school heads, and this role has taught me that sometimes, it's up to our own performance that a collective of people succeed or don't. On the other hand, we are very likely to form a family in the future, and the well-functioning of a family depends on the parents most of the time. Again, in this quotidian situation, two people are the ones in charge of making sure that everything goes well.

I have to say that the star for this task has been the most exciting of all, as playing the game was really funny and interesting. Knowing the answers for the questions was important, but there was also an important component of LUCK as maybe you answered many questions correctly but if you cought a snake you would go down on the board, and, on the contrary, if you were lucky you could catch many ladders and climb up in the board. As with being responsible for a collective, the component of luck is also present in many situations in life. From knowing the questions in an exam, to going shopping and finding something that you like and suits you well, luck may become a decisive factor. Also, for when we do the exams for working as a teacher for the Estate, we may be lucky and have to compete against few people for a high number of vacancies, or we may be unlucky and compete againts many people for few vacancies.This task has showed me that sometimes it isn't 100% up to us succeeding or not; there are many other factors that can help or affect you in a negative way in your performance.

To finish with, I would like to congratulate all of the stars form every group for their great job, and to Keep Calm & Keep Organized for that SECOND PLACE! Good job guys!