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.