Aula d'acollida

This was a very good experience and I would like to thank the teacher of Technology, because he was the one responsible for this lesson this time and he explained to me very how this kind of lesson works.

Aula d'acollida is a kind of lesson to help children, who have just arrived in Spain, to help them to adapt themselves ot our country. In this lesson, students are from different ages and courses, they worked a low level on the different subjects, and they pay special attention to vocabulary topics. During the year, when the children have already a certain level of Spanish and Catalan they incorporate into their group. They are assessed about language aspects and in the courses that they attend.

This time there were 25 children in the computer room and they had to share the computers and this fact complicated more that the children worked. The students were from China, Pakistan, Filipinas, Poland etc. and they were among 12 and 17 years old. At the beginning of the lesson, the teacher explained with a projector which website they had to use. Firstly, I thought that it was very useful and it would help them to know exactly what they must do, but it was like every day, the children needed help and we had to tell them again the objective of the task. The main problem of these students are their difficulties to understand the language, but they helped other students who are from the same countries or who speak the same language, they do as translators.

I took advantage of being there and the teacher explained me many topics in which I was very interesting. The first of them was the abseentism in this high school. At the first hour, one teacher is responsible for checking in each classroom who is absent and afterwards someone of the staff phones the family to let them know it. Moreover, this high school is trying that the students are punctual, so the ones who arrive late are not allowed to come in the classroom and they stay with a teacher.

I realized that the main problem of children is at home, but this does not happen only in the case of students who have an immigrant background, even if we could notice it every day with families from our country. We can read in the newspapers that parents go to school and hit the teacher or even the student self. Nowadays, there are many parents who don't believe the teachers or don't want to believe them and they don't help them to bring up their children.

How can this problem be solved?