Transcript Carem Final Piloting Report

Carem Final Piloting
Report
Teacher: Triantafyllou Stefania
General information
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Teacher’s name: Stefania Triantafyllou
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Years of teaching experience: two (2)
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School: PLATON, GANOCHORA, Primary education
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Age of pupils: ten(10) years old
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Number of pupils: fifteen (15)
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Total duration of activities: ninety (90) minutes (2 teaching hours)
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Period of Implementation: December 2013
CAREM educational objectives addressed:
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1. B1:Minimize children’s negative stereotypical behavior towards
disabilities, ethnic minorities, immigrants and other vulnerable
groups.
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2. B3:Promote the inclusion of children with disabilities, ethnic
minorities, immigrants and other vulnerable groups.
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3. B5:Increase the school and social participation of children who
appear to be marginalized.
Activity used: Black sheep
The students had to:
Create the tower of Babel using the materials they were
given, speaking each one of the peers another language.
Did I change anything?
No I did not change anything.
Collaborative form of teaching
Group
1
Group
3
Group
2
Notes about children's
responses to activities
Group 1
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The first group encountered major difficulties in the
cooperation it was requested to make.
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It took them a lot of time to make their own
communication code.
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The pupils found it really hard to cooperate.
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They finally made it to cooperate with the help and
supervision of the teacher.
Group 1
Group 2
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This group encountered some difficulties early in the
process.
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However, communication and dialogue made it really easy
for them to create their own communication code and
they finally made it to cooperate really fast, following the
rules.
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The course of instruction here was flawless.
Group 2
Group 3
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The 3rd group worked excellent as well.
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The whole procedure was really easy for them.
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The created their own communication code at once (in
the first 5’ of the process).
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They managed to overcome the barrier of the common
language.
Group 3
Suggestions for revisions of the initial
material
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The main problem of the whole teaching process was the
ability and the disposal of the peers to cooperate since
the communication language had to be different beacause
of the activity
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More exercise was acquired for the roles that the students
had to incorporate.
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The teacher should carefully distinguish the groups.
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The teacher should be a careful observer and intervene
where he notices that the teaching activity derogates.
Additional suggestions for working with
CAREM activities
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Careful guidance from the teacher.
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Should be practicing on how to enable students to create
their own communication code.
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In the evaluation process each group will take some time
to come across the difficulties it occurred to them. They
could also answer to a questionnaire.
PART B – SPECIFIC
INFORMATION
To what extend were the objectives
achieved?
Generally the objectives were achieved in a
desirable level, although there were some
difficulties caused of course from the nature of the
teaching plan.
What I believe the
children have learned?
They realized the right to diversity of
each one amongst us.
1. Stereotypes
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I am positive that the students were troubled from the issues raised in the
activity.
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Stereotypical behavior: each student was a minority on his/ her own and had
to built a small society. The feeling that they were vulnerable, made them
throw the wall of the stereotypes.
2. Inclusion
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Inclusion was also promoted through the whole procedure.
Everyone started as equal, so they all had to participate.
For the purpose of the activity each one belonged to a
minority.
3. Marginalization
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The activity increased the social participation of children,
who appear to be marginalized, in their school
environment
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Reducing marginalization was also very important and was
achieved when all the decisions had to be taken
unanimously by the students and all students had to
participate. That includes the children who appear to be
marginalized.
Assessment
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The evaluation process that took place in the end
of the teaching plan showed the previews results.
The conclusions and the submissions of the
students made me realize that they changed their
perspective in the issue.