Diferences between the Finland and our Educational System

 This week we watched a video of the Finland Educational System. We found many diferences between them, here there are a table with the main diferences. 
We have found the video quite interesting  and useful, if you want to wach it, here you have the links: 


1-3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi0cR2UmH-g&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLB27D22AE98EFF5A4


2-3  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU551L7V_zA&feature=related


3-3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8But2Y4ORc&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PLB27D22AE98EFF5A4


             FINLAND                           SPAIN

Children begin to read and write with 7 years.	From pre-primary children are overwhelmed with reading and writing.
Transport, text books and school supplies free.	You have to pay for all of this.
Break after each class 45” class /15” break.	Just one break of 30”.
Non compulsory schooling until 7 years.	Compulsory schooling at 6 years.
Less than 1% of private schools (27)	48.6% of private schools.
All education is free.	You have to pay in private and concertado schools.
Same educative system since seventies.	Last change was in 2006 with LOE (Ley Órgánica de Educación)
School failure is less than 1%.	School failure about 28% (3/10)
5 years of teaching career.	4 years of teaching career.
Students teacher receive 400/500€ per month.	Students just receive some help.
Kindergartens depend on the government.	Kindergartens are private.
Practice as a fundamental part of the formation.	Practices are less important and the times are not long enough.
Proper functioning of the support classes, there is almost repeaters.	Fewer hours of practice, low specialized attention to students.
Woman, facilities to work and care their children (until 3 years old).	Women have only 16 uninterrupted weeks to care the baby.
6/100€ of PIB is going to education.	4, 68% of PIB is going to education.
Education is more democratic.	There are still inequalities in education, not everybody can access in it.
Entrance examination to university is stricter. It as difficult to access as a medicine degree.	The marks to access to the educational degree are low.
There is diversity of subjects. Eg/ carpentry or hostelery.	Here, this alternatives subjects are not compulsory.
Great tradition of reading. They have the high number of books by person in the world.	Less cultural tradicion.

The Spanish Educational System: The Game

           

Hi! this week i´am the Analyst and here i leave the questions about the Snake´s game :)

       What was the best part of the activity?

This was an unusual activity, we do not always play in class, so,  in general the activity was fun, but the best was our intention and our enthusiasm even though we had no luck throughout the game.

 ·What was the worse?

The worst part was when, although the questions were right, we fell into a serpent and had to retreat. While we drank it with humor and a lot of motivation

    ·What was the best moment of the week (in the work of the group)?

The organization that we conducted for this practice was a success, all working hard at home and then put in common the questions we had written. We were a long time doing it, but we are proud of our work.

 .     What was the worse?

The worst moment was choosing the questions, was difficult because they had to be easy but also interesting, plus we lost the derby (Barça-Madrid), we were working hard.

  

 What have you learnt?

We learned a lot about the educational system of our country..    

    

What do you need to conserve -as a group- for the next weeks?

Our motivation, our happiness and the desire to work..    

  What do you need to improve –as a group- for the next weeks?

Our organization and pay more attention

See you soon! 

M.Angeles :)

The Spanish Educational System: The Game

HI! I´m the tracker of this week.
The game consisted of 100 boxes listed. All groups started in box 1 below. Within the board had stairs that you were carrying rows up in the direction of the winning number. They had also snakes that make you fall down several boxes, It was dependind the case. We were 3 classes of 3 different days playing this game. The fisrt two days were winning the "Hakunamatateros" but finally won "Never too late". It had a lot of variations with the positions of the groups. You could study a lot but in the majority of the cases it was luck. We had only 2 prices, and they were for "Never too late" and "Hakunamatateros". A fun way to learn everything about our education.




Irene.

The Spanish Educational System Overview: The Game

 

PLAYING SNAKES & LADDERS:

:)

The Spanish Educational System Overview: The Game.

Hi everybody, I am Marta, the journalist of this week.

I want to say that our topic is GENERAL INDICATIONS ABOUT TEACHING METHODS

and of course, here are the questions of all the groups that we have.

- Which governing body is in charge of the approval of educational textbooks?

- María is working in a public school. Who establishes the guidelines of the pedagogical and educational matters in María's school?

- How often do teachers have to use ICT tools in the classroom activities?

- Who develop the curriculum established by de Autonomous Community?

- Who is the body in charge of planning, coordinating and adopting all decisions regarding pedagogical and educational matters?

- Who sets the methodoligical principles which must guide the teaching practice.

- Which of this three sentences is not reflected in the LOE as an important pedagogical aspect in primary teaching?

     a) Using group activities .

     b) Reading newspaper.

     c) Attention to diversity.

- The main goal of the teacher will be propitiate the personal development but also the adquisition of _________ and __________ skills

- What must bu the charasteristic of a book to be used in schools?

- What is the role of the Publishing Companies on the schools materials?

- Who is responsible of supplying the ICT infraestructure in the schools?

- In which aspects should the Teaching-learning processes established by the Ley Orgánica de Educación de 2006 pay attenion?

- Named the six compulsory areas of knowledge.

- What principles have to has the Teaching-learning process?

- Definition of basic competences.

- Which of the following statements are true and which false, and correct the errors in the false one.

     a) Teaching methods must pay attention to diversity 

     b) Development of skills such as a reading, comprehension speaking and writing are not considered       important.

     c) A mediating role for teachers in teaching-learning activities is considered indifferent.

     d) It is good idea to use ICT as an everyday tool in the classroom.

- Do schools have the right to choose their textbooks and other materials?

- Is it incorrect for a teacher to use the new technologies in class instead of the textbooks?

There is a little prove of our work.

Marta :)

The Spanish Educational System Overview: The game.

During this week, we are working with our educational system, and, as future prymary school teachers is important to us to know it as better as possible, so, in order to do this learning easy and interesting, we have to build and play a sort Oca's Game mixed with Trivial.
Last day we were creating the different questions;  we have 8 topics, so we created 3 diferent question for each question and today, during our class we have decided, seeing the work of our mates, which questions were better now, with the choice, we are prepareted to the next class and to the grat session of our Game.
So, wish us good luck!!


The Facilitator : María :)

#NoTextB

Hello! I´m Irene, the journalist of this week.  There are the questions of the week:

•         What was the best part of the activity?  Definitely the best part was when we were looking for information on the subject. In Twitter we found in various sources of teachers and education professionals involved in giving their opinion on textbooks. We get a general impression of whether they were good or no textbooks for children. This research exercise helped us open our minds to a different form of education totally opposed to the traditional but no less effective.
•          What was the worse? I think that the worst part was realizing the economic relationship between the companies that want to get benefits and what really matters as education of children. We discovered that each child spend of year around € 300 in school supplies since the "right" is to follow the guidelines of a book. The society is blind to follow suit without realizing that there are other educational resources effectives less costly and more.
•          What was the best moment of the week (in the work of the group)? The best moment was when everyone got together the views and information that we sought in the different sources. We shared and discussed what each were thinking through this issue that will be an important issue when we start our teaching because each teacher is master of the way we disseminate the class.
•          What have you learn? We have learned that we need not to be a sheep in a herd; we see education as something different from the traditional. There are several ways to educate and we must seek the most effective to be education and learning for children to know not just cramming as in most cases. We are fully prepared to make a sort of alternative way, entertaining and fun.
• ·         What do you need to conserve –as a group- for the next weeks?  The organization that we had this week has been one of the best of the bunch and is something that we should continue in the next weeks. Perhaps it was the topic we were interested enough and so we made ​​the work more consistently. We have to follow this pattern of work we can improve.
•          What do you need to improve- as a group- for the next weeks?  We must have more concentration. We have to recognize that we are friends and we are easily distracted by anything. This is what we have to avoid wasting time does not benefit us nothing for the situation in the semester.

                                                                                                                                        Irene.