Group of experts

The aim of this activity was to focus what we have learned in general about school guidance and counselling in the Spanish context. In order to do this, the teacher decided to use a collaborative methodology, through which a group of people learn working together, using a technique named "group of experts". So, following this technique, the class was divided in four groups and in each of them he distributed four papers with the following information:

- Early childhood and School Education
- Higher Education 
- Lifelong Learning Approach
- Adult Education and Training

So, each person of the group is an expert of his/her topic, and has to explain it to the rest of the group, after having decided how meeting with the same experts of the other groups.

A next step in this activity was to look at the information at home again in order to do a kind of exam in class, about the four topics together without any kind of help (asking to the teacher, in groups, looking for information...). Next day we did it; we spent one hour thinking and trying to remember in order to complete successfully the questions, and the other hour of the class we could look or asked for the information to complete the "exam", giving finally the answer sheet to the teacher.

In my opinion the way in which this activity is developed is very dynamic because of the fact of the division of labor, the collaboration and the reciprocity relation in which you depend on the explanation of other classmates and they depend on you. But I think that the fact of making an "exam" was a bit boring and confusing. Any way we have expanded our knowledge about the subject.