TASK 7 STORIES

CHAPTER 4

SUBTITLE 1 “TEACHER-STUDENT CONNECTION” EXAMPLE:

The teacher Juanito was correcting some exams the other day when he noticed that one particular pupil, “Carlitos”, had mixed up the local most important history facts with other historical facts learnt the last week focused on recent history of the country.

The next day, when the teacher was handing over the exams he asked to Carlitos why he had made that mistake. At first “Carlitos” dind´t answer, he was embarrassed, but Juanito said “Come on Carlitos, did you studied it by heart?”

“Yes”, Carlitos Said, “I didn´t understand the end of the story very well”

“Okey” said the teacher “Tomorrow we are going to look over the same lesson.”

The next day Juanito searched a illustrated tale about the local history and the children enjoyed it, once they had read it the made a debate about it and the teacher made sure that everyone had understood the events properly, the next lessons he did the same before the exam.

SUBTITLE 2 "CONNECTIONS WITH PEERS

Last week, it happened and strange thing in Pedro Salinas school. One child, during the break decided to enter to his class and close the door with him into the class. He was all the rest of the morning trapped in the class and he didn´t want to go out but finally and with the intervention of his parents and the police he got out of the class. In that moment, his parents tried to be relax and asked him why he did that, his reason was that he didn´t want to be in class with his peers because they marginalized him and he decided to marginalize them without giving them the possibility of enter to the class as a revenge. 

SUBTITLE 3 "CONNECTION WITH LEARNING CONTEXT"

A teacher ask to a student if he did the homework, he asked her that he didn't do because he doesnt' understand the concepts to do them. So the teacher decided to revise if the rest of the class have understood them and she noticed that some peers were in the same situation. For solve the problem, she decided to make an colective activity that consists in make groups where peers help each others, that is, those who have better understood the knowledge trasmit them to those who didn't. And the teacher to make sure that everyone has understood the concepts , she choose randomly a group of students who hadn't done their homework and they have to explain the concepts that they learn this day in front of the class

SUBTITLE 4 "CONNECTION BEYOND THE CLASSROOM"

Article: The virtual-lessons that facilitates education to school student of a small village of Spain

The small village of Piedraroca is located in the middle of a mountain next to a river. It is a small village that has a population of 46 habitants. There is no school or even a bar in the all village. Two years ago, a group of teachers decided to give an opportunity to those kids that live in Piedraroca. They create a platform that allows the child to connect to the internet and follow a normal class. The work that the teachers are doing is totally free, they do it because they want to give those childs an opportunity. The children are learning well different subjects and they are discovering the daily routine of a classroom. They like to participate and to be part o the class. In a future, the platform will be much more accurate and will allow the children to pass the primary education online.