A class to remember

The last class was very interesting. The teacher opened the class proposing two questions that we had to think about it: what does attention to diversity means? And why it’s important in our degree?

 In my opinion the attention to diversity is it very important in order to offer  an equal and inclusive  education for all,  as  our current the law establish . It consists in providing different measures to adapt the children with special needs to the ordinary education.

 Regarding to the second questions,  I think it is importantdue ti the fact taht we will have to deal with diversity. I think every subject should include different measures and methodologies  to know how to work with diversity, not just in this subject. Even though this subject is specialized in School Counseling and Tutorial action attention to diversity is a very complex and wide topic as to see it just in one subject of the degree.

 Then he asked us to  make reflection and give our opinion about: what we had done until now, if we had learn, which was the best activity in our opinion , and how much did we learn.

 In the second part of the class,  we were divided in two groups , one group was going to think advantages  of collaborative learning while the other groups has  to propose several disadvantages of  the collaborative learning. The key point was to find arguments to defend the idea that you  was assigned by the teacher, in my case it was easy as I was in the  “ pro “ group and  I  have to defend the collaborative learning so it wasn’t too difficult.

 Some of the argument that we had were:

-          - The teacher can focus more in individuals students

-          -  In collaborative activities the people are more involve in the activity, so they are more motivate and consequently they learn more.

-          - This kind of learning promotes collaborative thinking.

-          -  It help you to learn how to deal with others, I mean to respect other opinions, and to try to find the common point between the groups.

-         - Working in collaborative activities implies that every children works in his own rhythmic.

-       -    Develop  autonomy

-       -   As they work in groups with their peers they usually have more fun, so they learn more. Also,  in general terms, it is easier to learn through a classmate explanation that to the teacher explanations

These were some of the argument that us as a groups use in order to defend our position in the debate.After the debate the teacher distributed few pages with 44 Benefits of Collaborative learning. For me one of the most important is “Encourages diversity understanding”