Rubric Reflection

Such an unknown spreadsheet is the Rubric for me. Culture shock? Maybe... Just kidding!

I have never used or even see them in my classes but I consider them as easy tools to make children understood what they have to do in every task.

Sometimes, you don't feel like creating a rubric to define the goals of an assignment but Rubriestar gives you the chance to save energy and a lot of time, as they have different kind of tasks available.
Besides, if you have to change the criteria or create one you only have to type it!

I didn't come up with interesting homeworks the day that I was creating my rubric, so that I set up the first tale competition! Writing and reading literature is really useful and rewarding, and if some of the students has problems to organize her/his tale I gave them the right clue.

But I can do the same with Geeography or History projects, biographies, ... and establish the criterias using Rubriestar!

Thank you! : D

RSS Reflection

I didn't know anything about Google Reader and omg! It's such an interesting tool to find very useful articles, webs, blogs,... and besides, it is really easy!

While we are studying in the University of the Basque Country we are told that a teacher has to be learning every time, renewing his/her knowledge and trying to adapt it to the days in which we are living.

Definitely, Google Reader offers you this chance and I am sure that I am going to take advantage of it. Some years ago, you couldn't find so much information in your house (the Internet) but now you don't have to go too far to improve as a teacher!

Do you know which one is the worst thing about Google Reader? That it is too easy to suscribe to blogs and in this moment I have a bunch of them waiting to be read...

But don't worry! I will read them in order to enrich my knowledge, my view of the education and my ways to get the Standards.

Assistive Technologies

First of all, you will be wondering why I had so many links when I was supposed to provide three of each one... To tell you the truth, it wasn't fair to show only three when I was watching plenty of them.

I am 20 years old and I will graduate on September. Too early to start working in my point of view. I want to study another degree in order to broad my options to work and I have been always concerns about this students that are not able to do everything that they would like to do only because they are limited genetically, because an accident,...

So, this project was a good way to start studying one of my possible next degree and taking into account the importance of this links, I believe that it would be a good resource for those that they want it!

http://www.cinchcast.com/jayadgasteiz/100100

Balkan's Wars in the Internet

I am really keen on this great and conflictive region of Europe and probably is one of the best way to teach American children European geography and history, as it is a really interesting topic, which undoubtedly is going to make bigger the curiosity of the students.

Besides, I learned of my father the helpfulness of a wiki, so interesting and useful that we can build an empire of wisdom! Bearing this in mind, the mixture between an amazing topic and a great resource can make this project very appealing.

Moreover, working in small groups as we will do with this project can improve the efficience of the learning process.

And of course, everything based on the standards. Balkan's wars can be included in the fifth Standard in the Social studies area from 6th to 9th grade, inside the World Civilization and History section.

The standards, my classroom and my self

Contents, standards and the teacher. These could be the greatest components in the teaching process. Like the Three Musqueteers they can't go in their own, because otherwise they will loose some fights, they won't compenetrate as well as they know...

The same happens to us, but with slight differences. We have to use the Standards because Education tell us to do so in order to be taken on and we consider the standards as a great resource to plan our lessons. So there is no point in ignoring them.

I understand that some parents can be quite reluctant about our work and if we follow the standars or not,... I understand their worries so that I must tell them to come to my classroom and I will be happy to meet them, listen to their questions and take into account any suggestion that they have.

Are the parents D'Artagnan?

Internet safety and classroom rules

As you have already heard me, I am very concerned about the importance of the Internet in its whole consequences, so I think it's fundamental to teach students to use it properly.

For these reason, I believe that after starting to ask them to make something in their own we should proved them some clues to use it properly such as don't providing many personal information, avoid chatting with strangers,... We have plenty of situations that children should be aware of, so it is our responsibility to help them.


Besides, as for the classroom rules it is proved that the imposted rules are better to have a disciplined classroom but the classroom that establishes them 'democratically, can work better, as children believe that they are part of it (as they have set the rules).

http://www.cinchcast.com/jayadgasteiz/100096