deepens: what if additional change everyday? Finland Centers Yesterday took place in Granada
Day that begins to
program delves into Andalusia. This program aims to help develop basic skills of students in second and third cycle of primary education and compulsory secondary education through workshops, scientific and technological developments in their own schools and with the same teacher.
However, after also hides deepens, first, a clear desire to move methodological renewal of knowledge and know-how direct teaching toward inquiry-based learning and discovery in this line, the program aims to raise the level of training of students in areas such as Natural Sciences, Social Sciences or Technology. At the same time, the program also includes the desire for quality educational provision (though complementary) for high achievers. In short, is an ambitious project deepens arrived on tiptoe and without causing much excitement - and although the relationship between paying teachers for their work and results expected from the program is deeply unbalanced, so to speak politely.
Invited by the Directorate General of Participation and Educational Innovation, my participation in the Conference took the form of a Gym-presentation, ie, a gymkhana
wrapped in a paper cover. The rationale is simple: does it make sense to give an academic paper on how to teach or how to teach science through inquiry and discovery when you're in
Science Park of Granada? No, no sense: it is best to simply walk in the park teaching and learning through this large museum of science. So I invited the sisters and brothers to play in the park through the location of some tracks (which were nothing more than ten criteria for evaluating the curriculum of Secondary Education). In the next presentation you can see the approach of this gym-presentation:
yesterday really was a fun and exciting day. It was exciting because there was more than 130 teachers interested in working in a different way with their students, interested in promoting active and playful approach to the science, interested in spreading the importance of science in our society and our students. Are teachers who show the greatness of our profession, his dedication to public service and unquestionable social value: I can only say that I identify with her desire to improve and I fully sympathize with their demands.
And it was a fun day. The organization took the risk of the activity that poses: a gymkhana in the Science Park. Could be successful an activity that was to make a run to 130 teachers and elementary and secondary teachers in the corridors of the park looking for clues and taking pictures
at full speed? The answer is yes. Thanks to the colleagues and colleagues the activity was very dynamic and rewarding. Teachers do not just want different ways of teaching and learning but they enjoy them!
Finally, congratulations to the organization of the Day (Manolo Vázquez and his team) and fellow Rafael Ramirez (Thales
Mathematical Society), Diego Castilian (Eureka Group) and Carlos Durán (
Principia Center) for their wonderful experiences. Thanks to my friend David Alvarez
(
@ balhisay ) for joining in the Gymkhana. Congratulations to
Science Park for its facilities and its educational: you are a benchmark of quality that is proud to Andalusia. Health
