Talk about NEAE (Specific Needs of Educational Support)

During this day a PT came to tell us about the special needs of children in school. We separated in groups and each one looked for information of a disorder that he assigned us, we looked for information of the same and we exposed it in front of our companions. Finally, he explained it to us well and finished completing telling us the supports that were offered to them in the school.

Disorders with special needs of support:

•          ADHD
•          High capacities
•        Do not know the lenguage in 2nd and 4th degree
•          Dyslexia
•          Asperger
•          Down's Syndrome
•         Hearing loss
•          Intellectual disability
•          Dystography / Dysgraphy

TDAH

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a neurobiological disorder that affects 5% of children worldwide, 6% in Spain.

The symptoms it presents are:

•Lack of attention

• Hyperactivity

• Impulsivity

What to do to manage ADHD at school:

A structured environment

Children who have this disorder learn best when the lesson is structured, as it is more difficult for them to maintain the attention at the same for a long time. Some of the procedures to follow are: to give advance notice of the exams and the tasks so that they have sufficient time to prepare it, to give complete instructions of what they has to do, in class to offer him transversal tasks, like going to make photocopies or take him some papers to another teacher, so that the child is distracted, ...

A predictable environment

The change of a subject, activity or class to another is complicated by what we have to do so that they see it very clear and not be confused.

A suitable environment for learning

Place it in a place of the class where it is easier to maintain the attention, like in front row near the slate, and avoid isolating it.

High capacities

According to the World Health Organization (WHO): << a "gifted" person who has an IQ greater than 130 >>. However, this is not accurate since they take into account only this data and not Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Theory. According to this we can define the gifted as that person who after several tests, shows high percentiles (above 75) in all types of intelligence.

Dislexia

The dictionary defines dyslexia as the "difficulty in learning to read or write, often associated with disorders of motor coordination.”

Dyslexia is a problem that affects 1 in 10 students, so is important to develop a good curriculum so that children who suffer from it can improve their academic performance. In addition, an early identification of the problem and the help that the child can receive, both from school and abroad, are another point in favor.

Asperger

As the ASPERGER Confederation of Spain says: "Asperger's syndrome is a severe developmental disorder that involves a neurobiologically determined alteration in information processing. Affected people have normal appearance and intelligence, even above average. They present a particular cognitive style and frequently, special abilities in restricted areas".

Down's Syndrome

Down syndrome is a genetic disease resulting from the trisomy of pair 21 due to meiotic non-disjunction, mitotic or unbalanced translocation of that pair, which presents with a frequency of 1 in 800,000 inhabitants, increasing with maternal age.

The general clinical signs that characterize this picture are: mental deficiency, brachycephaly, continuous facial erythema, microtia, Brushfield spots, congenital cardiac abnormalities, dysplasia of the second phalanx of the fifth finger, small hands, mongolic facies, hypotonia, as well as delay In physical and psychic development. However, the presence of mental retardation in these patients can be variable, finding mild conditions that allow these patients to perform daily tasks very easily.

There is no treatment for Down's syndrome, so rehabilitation measures using special physiotherapeutic, speech-language and psycho-technical techniques play an important role in patients with severe mental compromise, allowing them in most cases an adequate social reintegration. (Pérez Chávez, 2014)

Hearing loss

It is the total or partial inability to hear sounds in one or both ears.

Dysortography

It concerns disturbances of the written use of language; Is frequently associated with delays in oral language, as a symptomatology of an unappreciated silesia, resulting from faulty learning or an unfavorable cultural environment, such as lack of attention or reading comprehension.

Dysgraphia

Defective writing without significant neurological or intellectual impairment.

References

TDAH y tú (2015). Manejar el TDAH en clase. Retrieved from http://www.tdahytu.es/manejar-el-tdah-en-clase/

Altas capacidades y talentos (2016). Qué son las Altas Capacidades Intelectuales. Retrieved fromhttp://www.altascapacidadesytalentos.com/que-significa-tener-las-altas-capacidades/

Confederación ASPERGER España (2005).  Retrieved fromhttps://www.asperger.es/

Pérez Chávez Diego Alberto. (2014). SIndrome de Down. Revista de Actualización Clínica Investiga, 45, 2357-2361.  

Medline Plus (2016). Retrieved fromhttps://medlineplus.gov/spanish/ency/article/003044.htm

Pcicopedagogía.com (2017). Retrieved fromhttp://www.psicopedagogia.com/disortografia

Pcicopedagogía.com (2017). Retrieved fromhttp://www.psicopedagogia.com/disgrafia

Sports in education

Sport is a tool for the formation, development and improvement of the physical capacities of a person, allowing the interaction of social, emotional and physical aspect of human well-being.

Sport is a good tool to teach to the young people valves and virtues as justice, loyalty, overcoming, coexistence, respect, friendship, teamwork, discipline, responsability and tolerance.

Childre who practice a sport tend to have higher self-esteem and suffer less depression and anxiety.

In my oponion, the subject of Physical Education is one of the most important, since aspect that are not mencioned in other subjects are taught in PE. In addition children need to move and do exercise, because childhood obesity is very present in the school of our country.

Sports should be done outside school hours, with friends or family, doing activities such as soccer, basketball, tennis, cycling, hicking, etc.

The sport in school is not sufficient for children who are in ages of growth, but there are children who like physical activities and enjoy with them. However, others do not like it, therefore parents must
encourage each child make them, since they can have problems of overweight in the adulthood.

Ramírez Perdiguero, F. J. (2004). Los Valores del deporte en la Educación. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Deportes.

Vázquez, B. (2001): Deporte y educación, bases educativas de la actividad física y el deporte en B. Vázquez y cols. (eds.)  Madrid: Síntesis.

Extracurricular activities are important.

Extracurricular activities in primary education are an importan teaching resource, a pedagogical activity and a means of training and socialization for students. In addition, thanks to them, many objectives are fulfilled:


-To interact the child with his/her natural, social and cultural environment as a means of learning. 
-To inculcate the child's curiosity, interest in knowledge and creativity. 
-To understand the reality from analysis and observation. 
-To understand and value the environment that surround them.
-To develop the ability to describe, interpret and critique. 
-To appreciate and respect the rules of coexistence outside the classroom. 
-To stimulate and promote values such as trust, equality, solidarity, respect and tolerance. 
-To socialize with teachers and classmates of another classes and acquire skills for conflict resolution.


For all these reasons, I do not understand why teachers oppose to trips. We must leave aside the traditional method, in which teachers explain and students do hundreds of exercises in class, and innovate, for example going out and learning from the world that around us, due to, as we said, excursions are often a very important part of our school experience, and unfortunately, many of us have not enjoyed them for the simple fact that they have not been realized.


Niño, M.C. (2012). Las Salidas escolares en la Educación Primaria. Retrieved from https://uvadoc.uva.es/bitstream/10324/1845/1/TFG-L%2056.pdf

 



 

Stages of school and what do you learn.

In this post we want to make a reference to another of our cathegories, that is types and stages. To know the reason of this division, we let here a link about the newspaper "ABC" that treats about what children learn in the different stages.
As we can see, the divions are in order to indicate some objectives that children will have  to pass from the next period. As we observe in the link, in preschool children have to learn physical and affective development, corporal control, initiation in the reading and the writing... In primary school there are three cycles in which they learn from the alphabet, tables of multiplying, fractions, nouns, natural sciences, languages ... always from the simplest things to the most complex ones.
When we pass these two stages, we start secondary school where children began to penetrate into the matters that had learnt previously, and others new as physics and chemistry.
As we can observe, the division by stages is essential, because every stage gives you the necessary bases to be able to overcome the following one easily.

ABC (2012). Qué aprenderá tu hijo en cada etapa escolar. Retrieve from http://www.abc.es/20120905/familia-educacion/abci-aprendizaje-etapas-educacion-201209031121.html

Special class

As it says in the title, last day we had a special class. This was because some of us were at different schools and approximately 20 in the class.
At beginning of the class we did a dynamic that consisted of putting in a paper one or two words that represent you in your professional area. Later, we had to do our presentation using the word that each one had chosen. Also, we had to remain the words that each of us had use to defining, because when we finished, Pablo chose several of us in order that they were choosing some qualities that they would like to have inside the professorship of his college.
After this activity, we were talking about time. Some of them were: opportunity, stress, organization... With this words we, by groups, had to create a definition of time and sell it. For it, we had to invent a name for our "product" and 10 slogans.

Love is all you need

I thik that this video that Pablo put us, is really interested. As we comment after seeing the video, it was really impacted because talk about the homosexual as the habitual thing and the heterosexual as the thing that is strange in that society. The story talk about a girl who is heterosexual in a homosexual society and how the people is making her feeling really bad for love a boy inside of a girl.
She have not the support of any teacher, family and friend. We were talking about the importance of have this because the girl have to know that she have support and that what she do it is not bad.
Also we talk that the teacher have to talk with the children that make bullying and, maybe, in the class put examples talking about couples two girls, two boys and a girls and a boy, making common all the realtions that you can have. Through this techniques we can make that children are aware that all of us are different and that in the same way we think different about a simple images we also think different about the relation of love and nothing is wrong.
We can connect this video with one of our cathegories. It coud be methodology because for talking about bullying which is a theme that you have to work with children, it is more dynamic to put a video that have a talk about it. For that, inside of methodology we thought that it is a participative methodology instead of a traditional methods.

Related with this problema we can find another types of problems in our class. We have to know about the problems of our children and make that they feel good at class. In Spain in 2015, the newspaper 'El Mundo', wrote that Spain was the first country in school failure with a rate of 21,9%. As teacher we have to know about this problema and work the best ways to avoid it.

El Mundo (2015). España, líder de la UE en abandono escolar prematuro con una tasa del 21,9%. Retrieve from http://www.elmundo.es/espana/2015/04/20/5534d3ee268e3e320e8b45ae.html

Here you have the video that we are talking before.

Talk about children with disabilities

In our last class came a woman from Argentina who works with children with disabilities in order to explain and see how they work with these children. The main interest is, as she said, "to build collaboratively with practices."
She told us the importance of school, teachers and students, helping the complicated situation. It is very important that they have a plan designed specifically to address the educational disvantages of that child is developed and for this it is important to have the help of psychologists, pedagogues... We must make children aware, and be ourselves, that diversity is always present and that no child should be judged by its specific characteristics, it must be supported and helped to move forward.
She, at the beginning of the talk, told us about a legasa that is an objective that all children have but that is fundamental in children with this type of disadvantages. She also mentions the importance of the way in which children through looks, gestures, smiles... Sincé this can help make you feel much more comfortable and easier to tackle your studies successfully.
I think that this talk was very important for us as future teachers because make us be aware that we can have some children with this difficulties and we have to work a lot with them and it is very important that all the people can facilitate their learning. Some of us have had some mates in this circustances and it is a thing that is really common today.