Attention to diversity: designing a collaborative activity

This project was based in developing a collaborative activity in order to make the rest of the class understand and learn the topic the teacher gave to each of the groups, based on the common topic "attention to diversity" (the principle which should rule the whole education). Our item was "Support Measures for learners in Early Childhood and School Education", so in order to prepare the one hour session we searched for information on internet, and once we had it, we started thinking how could we presented it to the rest of the class in an active, dynamic and effective way, something that (at least for us) is not easy.

Finally we decided the following procedure: first, we made a very short prezi presentation in order to introduce the topic and later we did a kind of game or quiz. For this "game" we separated the class into two groups, and within this two groups we made groups of three people. It consisted on every three people group of one part of the class making questions to the other groups of the other part of the class (and vice versa), in order to get points answering the questions right (they were helped to do the questions by a sheet we elaborate and gave them with a summary of the topic). The last activity of our lesson consisted on presenting the whole class some cases and ask them, applying what they have learned with the other two activities, how they would treat them. Some of this cases were:

-Maria is 8 years old and has got the Aspergen Sindrome, she has got difficulties making friends.

-Félix parents can not take him to school because they have to work when it starts.

-Mike’s parents have discussions frequently and her sister plays the fagot, so he can not bring his homework on time.

 

I think this project was very interesting. Mainly because it requires from us some imagination for developing our session, something that we will need in our future career and that is not easy (at least for me) so needs practice, and for what is also useful seeing what have occurred to other groups, from which we can learn other methodologies and ideas (the memory game, the "races", the quiz...). I think we did it well and that it was also useful for the rest of our peers.