Farewell and closure of the Blog

This has been one of the most interesting subjects I've had in the degree until now. I enjoyed not having a final exam and making all these presentations. Now I feel more confident  at the blackboard in front of a class and also I have learned a lot of ways of helping the children in different situations. This course has been really useful to me and I am pleased of having attended to all classes.

School Guidance Plan

The school guidance plan was the last project of the course. We had to develope an entire school guidance plan (plan de acción tutorial). To do it we looked at the examples we had in the virtual campus and after that we went to a high school and we asked for a plan to analyze it and see the parts better.

It was very complicated to do because school guidance plans can have different organizations and they have lots of information. Finally when we understood every part of the plan we made a prezi presentation and we explained it in class. It was very hard to put everything in a presentation, but we were able to do it. Finally we wanted our classmates to understand it well, so we looked for real cases in schools which were being solved in Spanish schools. Some of them were recent and were nor solved yet, but we could see how the professionals were dealing with it.

Here are some of the cases we chose:

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This last project has been interesting to know  more about how the counselling department works in an educational centre, but it was a long project and we were a little bit shortof time. I think that if we had had more time to do it we could have done a more creative job.

The conference

In today's class we have seen how a conference with parents should be done,but first of all we should ask ourselves... What is a parent-teacher conference? A parent teacher conference is a meeting between a student's parents and teacher or teachers, to discuss the child's progress academically, socially and with regard to expected classroom behavior. Other topics such as homework and emotional or friend challenges may also come up. To learn this we have seen a video of an American conference which was perfectly run. After that we have said outloud the characteristics that we have liked the most about this conference. After that we have seen a Spanish conference which was awful and was full of mistakes. We have compared both and what the teacher should have done. Some of the important concepts are:

1) Go to the door and welcome the parents

2) First of all,  talk about the good achievements of the kid and then about the negative aspects

3)Have the resources that the kid has used over the course available.

4)Be confident.

5)Be punctual to the meeting.

6)Put some objectives in common with the parents  and state a date to check if everything is going as planned

After all of this,  some classmates have made representations of conferences in different situations (divorced parents, single mother...) and how to run them

.Today's class was incredibly useful because it is really important how to run a conference in a good way and not making the parents angry. It is also important because if the kid sees that there is a good communication between the teacher and the parents, he will feel more motivated to keep studying and paying attention to the classes, and to modify his behaviour if necessary. There were some things that I had guessed that where this way but I did not know other pieces of advice, so this has been fun and important for our careers.