Let's reflect about the first impressions...

I'm writing this blog almost one month later after beginning my practicum, so I'm using the notes that I wrote every day after arriving at home from the high school. I disagree with the methodology of this CAP course, because I think that it could be better if we have attended the lessons about theory aspects first and after that we would do our Practicum, because in this way we could put into practice what we have learned, but it couldn't be changed...

Firstly, I would like to reflect about my own beliefs. Oriol told us that many beliefs about school come from teachers' experience as students and what our teachers did, influence our teaching behaviours. This is one of the reasons why I would like to become a teacher, because I would like not to be as the bad teachers that I had and I would like to try to improve the teaching techniques. I agree with this statement and during this last year I have taken notes about what my teachers did, because I thought that it would be very useful for my own experience. I studied in a normal school, were almost every one came from Spain and they had a normal life, but now I feel a little bit envious, because I would like to be in a classroom like the ones in the Miquel Tarradell school, because I think that we could take advantage from everyone and we could understand better how the world is changing nowadays.

From my point of view, I think that there are a lot of differences all over the country, because I'm from Galicia and I believe that there the situation is changing slower and they need more time to adapt to this society. I'm very hopeful about the situation and I think that inmigration and integration could work in this world, but I think that the following generations of inmigrants are going to have it easier, because they have brought up in a different society than their parents or grandparents and they could understand better how to adapt and to integrate themselves in this world.

Now, let's talk about the first impressions of my experience in the high school. The first problem that the teacher has to solved is the name of the students. Teachers have to make a great effort to learn their names, because they are very different from the Spanish ones, but it is very important to know them. One of the most important problems is the high rate of absenteeism in the school, so the teacher has to check every day if the students are or not in the classroom. However, I don't really know what happens if the students don't come, but I would like to talk about this with my tutor. I was very surprised, because I have thought that this high school was not really a rich one, but my teacher checks the attendance with a PDA and it's very useful, because it's faster and less paper is wasted. On the other hand I have learned that it's very important to have some procedures and routines and maybe it could be better that the students have something to do while the teacher is checking the attendance, because it helps the students not to waste their time and to keep quiet.

In my opinon, I think that it could be very useful if the teacher writes in the blackboard at the very beginning of the lesson what they are going to do that day, because it helps the students to know what they are expected to do and due to the diversity of the classroom, the children who have a higher level could go through the next activity in case they finish sooner and don't get bored.