One day, the teacher told us to write down about our school experience (teachers, personal reflections, feelings...) and then, we put all of them in common, by noting down all the similarities and differences in order to extract several themes and organize them into categories.
We did a huge list because our experiences were really different, due to two main facts: our type of school (public, private and publicly supported by the state) and the differences between our two Erasmus students, Lena and Heidi (from Germany and Finland) and the other Spanish experiences. There were some similarities too!
Therefore, after doing a selection of all the contents, we established seven categories (some of them with subcategories) and we represented them in a cardboard to present it to the rest of the class.
We draw the head of a girl with our age, who is thinking and remembering her school experience, that’s why from her brain leaves some bubbles with the categories. We also added a circle divided into four parts according to our four stages at school: preschool, primary, secondary and bachelorette. Each stage had a different colour and we assigned this colour to the element that was most relevant at this stage. For instance: if in preschool (purple), the celebration of the Carnival was more relevant and we put the colour purple next to it.
The first category was Type of school, as we have said, we found the three kinds of our experiences: public, private and publicly supported by the state. This category will influence the rest of them because each school won’t manage in the same way.
The next one is Free time, it is very important because along with all our school experience we spent a lot of free time. At least, we had thirty minutes each day. And, what did we do at this time? Several activities! Sport, playground games, walk, gossips…
The third category is the biggest one. It is the Methodology and it embarks many things that determine the way of transmitting the knowledge. The first subcategory is the punishment because all of us remember when a student had a bad behaviour and the teacher punished him. The next one is the evaluation that could be quantitative and qualitative. The third one is the different ways to teach and learn and here we can find lots of things: exams, learning by heart, traditional methods, teamwork, theoretical/practical activities, etc. The last one is the class management: the decoration was important in preschool, for example at Christmas time; also the distribution of the tables in a U shape in order to work in a more communicative way, etc.
The next category is the Relationships and we distinguish between three types. Relationships between teachers and parents, which will affect the child; between teachers and students (there will be teachers that were important in our lives and others that we forget easily); and between students. In this one we can see the competitiveness, the “enemies” in other classes (for instance, the fights between the class A and the class B) and also many friends and friends from other countries.
The fifth category is the Celebrations, because in our region we have lots of them, such as Carnivals, Andalusia’s day, Peace’s Day, Holy Week…Our experiences were full of activities according to each event. For example, it is traditional that in the Andalusia’s day, all the schools eat the typical “mollete” with oil and did dances and performances. We have also included in this category the trips we did to several places: museums, cinema, other cities, which were important to learn in a different way.
The next one is the Changes because they are important in our experiences. When we pass from Primary to Secondary, usually we have to leave our school and went to another building (High School) with an organization, classrooms, teachers, etc. completely different. Therefore, the student has to adapt himself to this new school and with this change, the child could suffer so it is important to control it. Another important change is the election between languages or sciences when we were at secondary education because it will determine the future studies.
As a consequence of this changes, we can find the last category, which is the Student’s feelings (stress, boring/funny moments, nervous…). All of them could influence the student’s school experience.
We did a huge list because our experiences were really different, due to two main facts: our type of school (public, private and publicly supported by the state) and the differences between our two Erasmus students, Lena and Heidi (from Germany and Finland) and the other Spanish experiences. There were some similarities too!
Therefore, after doing a selection of all the contents, we established seven categories (some of them with subcategories) and we represented them in a cardboard to present it to the rest of the class.
We draw the head of a girl with our age, who is thinking and remembering her school experience, that’s why from her brain leaves some bubbles with the categories. We also added a circle divided into four parts according to our four stages at school: preschool, primary, secondary and bachelorette. Each stage had a different colour and we assigned this colour to the element that was most relevant at this stage. For instance: if in preschool (purple), the celebration of the Carnival was more relevant and we put the colour purple next to it.
The first category was Type of school, as we have said, we found the three kinds of our experiences: public, private and publicly supported by the state. This category will influence the rest of them because each school won’t manage in the same way.
The next one is Free time, it is very important because along with all our school experience we spent a lot of free time. At least, we had thirty minutes each day. And, what did we do at this time? Several activities! Sport, playground games, walk, gossips…
The third category is the biggest one. It is the Methodology and it embarks many things that determine the way of transmitting the knowledge. The first subcategory is the punishment because all of us remember when a student had a bad behaviour and the teacher punished him. The next one is the evaluation that could be quantitative and qualitative. The third one is the different ways to teach and learn and here we can find lots of things: exams, learning by heart, traditional methods, teamwork, theoretical/practical activities, etc. The last one is the class management: the decoration was important in preschool, for example at Christmas time; also the distribution of the tables in a U shape in order to work in a more communicative way, etc.
The next category is the Relationships and we distinguish between three types. Relationships between teachers and parents, which will affect the child; between teachers and students (there will be teachers that were important in our lives and others that we forget easily); and between students. In this one we can see the competitiveness, the “enemies” in other classes (for instance, the fights between the class A and the class B) and also many friends and friends from other countries.
The fifth category is the Celebrations, because in our region we have lots of them, such as Carnivals, Andalusia’s day, Peace’s Day, Holy Week…Our experiences were full of activities according to each event. For example, it is traditional that in the Andalusia’s day, all the schools eat the typical “mollete” with oil and did dances and performances. We have also included in this category the trips we did to several places: museums, cinema, other cities, which were important to learn in a different way.
The next one is the Changes because they are important in our experiences. When we pass from Primary to Secondary, usually we have to leave our school and went to another building (High School) with an organization, classrooms, teachers, etc. completely different. Therefore, the student has to adapt himself to this new school and with this change, the child could suffer so it is important to control it. Another important change is the election between languages or sciences when we were at secondary education because it will determine the future studies.
As a consequence of this changes, we can find the last category, which is the Student’s feelings (stress, boring/funny moments, nervous…). All of them could influence the student’s school experience.
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