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Ok...so let´s see... things are getting better..I think. Know i can understand what i want...what is fundamentall for my kids to understand what they must do:) I also understand that they have to make a lot of decisions that in the past (really i mean nowdays) were made by me.  Clarifying my ideas...what a nice projetc

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That´s easy...
Weaken our student´s confidence is the easiest thing we can do.... If we start to teach as the owners of the truth, if we don´t chare the challenges with them, if we insist in making bad remarks in our classes about their work...soon their confidence will be gonne, and so their learning or interest in our subject.  So let´s make "au contraire" and make our students be positive about their learning and capacities:)

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https://v.gd/tCbeCw

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Finding collaboration partners outside the classroom

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Finding collaboration partners outside the classroom

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In my school collaboration with institutions outside the school is very common. Most of the projects developed in school are organized with the support of the parents, but also with the support of enterprises and associations of different areas. Also School and city hall work together for the success of the kids. That is one of the caractheristics of my school that i love the best.

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the real truth just appeared before me....I really thought that my students worked in collaboration. Ok. Now i know that most of the time, they work together but not in a collaborative way. Another real thruth is that that kind of work is done now and then but not regularly. There's no time for that...
So what can we do? Get abset and angry? Not in a million years. We have to work. We, teachers have to lead the kids to work together, let them share the responsabilities, let them make the substantive decisions in a way that their work is interdependent. As for me i will try to change my action mode.

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2Developing effective collaboration for PBL

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2Developing effective collaboration for PBL

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That´s the image that i have chosen. This image appeared in a site concerning collaboration - Media Factory - and i think that it reflects, at least,  my ideas about what is collaborative work. So, you might ask, what do you think is collaborative work?
I think that is a work developed by more than one person, where everyone has a task, but where you can get help and discuss your ideas and where, in the end, everybody learns and achieves more than if it had worked alone

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1.4 Components of Good PBL
This is a great video, but i think that the teachers that appear in the video must be used to work with this methodology. Nothing is easy in working with PBL: the conection with the real world , the core to learn, the collaborative form and the assessment. So i think that this work must be slowly driven. Because it´s a new world for all of us: Students and teachers.
teachers must prepare carefully their work or the result may be a disaster of catastrophically consequences. One step at a time is the best way to look, for know, at PBL.

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Optional P2P - Reflections on our current teaching practice

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Optional P2P - Reflections on our current teaching practice

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My strategies

Since i´ve started to teach, 23 years ago, little things changed in my practice. I usually work with expositive lessons, where students read old documents, analise them and tell me the answers i want. Most of the time, in my classrooms i speak :) i usually say to may students that i've became a teacher because that way nobody can shut me up during a class :) Of course i'm kidding but the truth is that probably they think that is true... They are usually are quiet, silent and listening, or not... Of course since the next day they don´t remember i think that they didn´t heard a thing. So i get mad and tell them that they must study and be responsable.
I´ve already used some PBL lessons but only in the non curriculum areas as citizenship and multidisciplinary investigation. But i never worked a "real" curriculum with PBL, because it takes to much time for the students to get where the programmes and curriculum wants, and that is the biggest problem of all:TIME. On the other hand students don´t take seriosly what they learn that way. They don´t think that those subjects are meaningful learnings. So, beside changing the teachers mentality it's necessary to change the students ideas about the teaching /learning process.
After the beggining of this course i implemented a PBL in my history class about: The beggining of the XX century: Living in an admirable new world?" Some students didn´t like at all.... so let's see how it's gonna woork

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1. What is PBL and why use it

1.1 What is PBL

1.2 Why use PBL

After these days i'm quite astonished about the things that, untill know i ignored about PBL. As i said in the tricider proposed in part 1.2 of this module, i think that most of us are not prepared for the change. Not only because of the curriculum and the time given for us to each, but also, because we don't want to change, we don't want to move out side our little boxes. we think that, just because we talk about a certain subject that our pupils are going to be magically involved in it. We, and they, have so mch to loose if we continue to think like that. Critical thinking, problem solving collaboration and communication are going to be aparted from our students if we continuasly  insist in working the same way teachers in the late XIX century worked.
Before this, the only solution is to center the education around the student, making reflect abouut the things, making him the builder of is own knowledge so that they can be responsible and create the sense of lidership