Journalist post

Hello, and wellcome to The Powerpuff Teachers blog! I am the Journalist this week.

The aim of the wark of this week was to create a video talking and solving the stuation that other group have gave us. Power Teachers was that group.

We met on wednesday, that day all of us came to my house and eat all together, so we didn't miss a minute, a almost inmidiatly, we started to work. As we all had already read the law and the coexistence plan of one school, we started thinking how we solve this problem. In order to save time, Lucia and Ana started to record while the rest though the solution. Then we want to a school near my house to record the rest of the video. Once we have finished we all came back to our homes.

We decided to assambly tha video in class, but I have all the video, because the camera is mine. I was very ill that day so I didn't go to class. I felt very guilty so I assambled it. As I was doing it, I thought about puting subtitles so it can be understand, so I divided the videos, and the other made it.

Once it was finished I uploaded it to Youtube, and also I save it in a pen drive.

On monday, we saw all the videos. At first we started to comment out loud the videos and what were their three good things, and also what we missed. But we were very slow at first, so we saw the last videos without talking about them. After that, Linda told us to go on our class videos and coment with the three good things and one bad. It was hard due to the quality of all the videos, but all of us have something to improve.

Thank you class for all your comment, we expect we can improve all of what you have told us.

Best regards, Julia.

Analyzing the situation

Hello everybody! 

This week I am the analyst again. I think this is one of the most important roles because you have to analyze everything your colleagues have done in order to complete the activity and you have to pay attention all the time because you must evaluate them the better as you can.

This week has good things and moments but also bad parts or moments too, as the previous weeks. However, I think that this week has more good moments than bad moments.

First of all, on Monday every group had to create a conflict. Our conflict was about Pablo, a eleven year-old boy, who behaves badly because of a problem in his house. Teachers believe that the behavior of his parents reflected a violent situation between them.

With this conflicts, we had to create a piece of news in which the star was the reporter of the news. In our case, we did the conflict of Power Teachers which is about a P.E teacher who committed sexual abuse to his female students.

As always, we had the same problem… We did not agree about the hour and the day in order to meet and do the activity because everyone have different schedules. So, after arguing and suggesting everything we thought in order to everybody of the group could go, at last we decided to meet on Wednesday.

In my opinion, our problem is that we are always complaining about wasting time if we met but, I think we waste more time deciding because we have to dedicate time to this subject no matter what…since we have to spend much time if we want to pass it so, it is a reality and we have to accept if we have to spend the whole afternoon doing the activity. This is a thing we have to improve…

Moreover, we had a problem with the activity because in every Coexistence Plan we read we found students-students conflicts, always against children. Luckily, our colleague, María found the Coexistence Plan of the law in which specify every kind of conflicts.

On the other hand, there were not only bad things, but also there were really good things. For example, we had really fun recording the video especially when we have to record the advertisements which are really funny thanks to our good actress Lucia (our star). We could not stop to laughing with the outtakes too so, we had a blast J.

In addition, another good thing is all the things we have learnt with this activity. We have learnt what is the Coexistence Plan, every school have a different one and this is an important thing to know if it is a good school or not. We have learnt how to sort out many types of problems because we have also seen the videos of the other groups and they have different conflicts…

I think our video is a good one because we have included in the video many perspectives: the mothers of the some victims, how this problem is seen from outside (a mother who have just had a baby and know the school very well), the tutor and the headmaster. If we did not include the victims perspective was because we think they are affected and they are underage. Therefore, this is a thing that we have to conserve because we spent time wisely in order to do the activity the best as we could.

To sum up, I think this activity is really useful for our future as a teachers because it will help us in order to a better solve the problems we can have with other teachers, students and parents at the school.

I hope you enjoy this post. See you next time.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Inma Álvarez

Curator-farmer post

Hi there!

I'm Mari Carmen and for this week I was in charge of  curator role.

We worked on Coexistance Plans, that are those that must be followed in case "normal" cohabitance on schools get troubled. We had to record a documentary video about an example case written by another group and upload it to youtube.

So, we started looking for coexistance plans in primary schools in Murcia and what the law says about them. We compared both documenets and started figuring out how we could represent it. We thought about the several things we would take into account, such as which point of view we would adopt (girl's, P.E teacher's, mother's,..).But finally we opted for the adults interviews one in a kind of "Powerpuff Girls"news called "Townsville alive!".

In the overall of this week I feel happy. We only meet once, so I thing it is great we are getting used to be effective when it comes to planning and distributing work. In fact, we changed several times gathering date, but we all manage to find the best moment.

The more remarkable issue of this week project, in my view, was when I read Mariano Aroca's coexistace plan and thought "ummm, I can't find the solution just following this as a guide". And going strait away to borm documment where it was said the same but also naming teachers and other adults of the school as trouble makers.

 We found out, to our surprise, that our primary school coexistance plans didn't contain conflect resolution for teachers-teachers, parents-teachers, students-teachers; meanwhile in the BORN  document it was stablish a protocol for all of them. 

It's kind of tricky the only ones considered problematic enough, in most of the schools,to be in coexistance plans were students.

References:

-Colegio Público de Educación Infantil y Primaria “Mariano Aroca” de Murcia (mayo 2006). [Internet] Plan de Convivencia Escolar. Retrieved from http://www.marianoaroca.es/files/plan_convivencia.pdf

-Equipo Directivo del Colegio Santa María (10 mayo 2007). [Internet] Plan de Convivencia. Retrieved from http://www.colegiosantamaria.es/download/ensenyanca/plan_de_convivencia.pdf?rdm=2

- España. Boletín Oficial Región de Murcia. Resolución de 28 de septiembre de 2009, de la Dirección General de Ordenación Académica, sobre aspectos relativos a la aplicación a las normas de convivencia escolar.[Internet] Boletín Oficial de la Región de Murcia, 19 de octubre de 2009, núm. 240, pp. 54375- 54382.  Retrieved from http://borm.carm.es/borm/documento?obj=anu&id=384386

Thanks for reading :)

See you soon!

Helping as a good Helper

Hi bloggers!

The end is near but we continue with all of you :)

I am María and this week my role is "Helper".

This week I have contributed on the recording of our video about the Coexistence Plan. Really, almost all of us have participated on the recording of the video.

I have to say that it has been a very good week, we have worked very coordinate and well so we have not got any problems at all.

It has been very fun and not so difficult and we have learned the Coexistence Plan, I mean the part of the current Law that is focus to it, and many things related to it, as for example that each School has to elaborate its own one and that the goverment only gives indications to follow.

It has been so good.

See you next week!!

I hope you like our video as much as to us.

:)

THE TRANSLATOR IS HERE AGAIN!

Hello everybody!

My name is Carmen Carpena, a member of the group 'The PowerPuff Teachers', and this week I am the... TRANSLATOR!

This week the work has been funnier than other weeks because we have had to do a video in which we had to show a problem in a school proposed by other group. In our case, is the group 'Power Teachers' who have proposed our conflict.

The words I have chosen to explain in this week are:

COEXISTENCE PLAN: Is a document related to the education field. Each centre have one and it consist in:

- Obtain a good atmosphere in the school.
- How to act in situation in which students do not behave in the way they have to.
- How to act if we are noticing a case of bullying.

http://ifpsmislata.edu.gva.es/joomla_EN/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=35

VIDEO DOCUMENTARY: It is a way to explain a problem or to tell a story in a funny way using images, music and technologies. It can be said this is a way of enterteinment due to the animation and the movement of the video.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Video+documentary

SEXUAL ABUSE: It is a non-consensual sexual contact. This can happen to women and to men, depending on the case in which we are. To do this abuse, the offender can use objects, toys, pills, drugs, etc to cause pain or humillation to the victim.

http://www.pandys.org/whatissexualabuse.html

PROTOCOL: It is a document which contains a group of rules and procedures to follow in all the situations that can happen in public or private centres, in this case in schools.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/protocol

OUTTAKE: It is a scene which is not planned to be showed in the video or film. They are the scenes in which the actors commit mistakes and they are not validate to show in the screen.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/outtake

I hope you enjoy the post and the blog and find them useful! Thank you!

Lucia as a Star.

Hi guys!
This time I become again the star of our group. This week we us have to deal a conflictive issue in a center proposed by one group of our class. The issue was the sexual abuse of girls by a physical education teacher. As Star I had to appear in the video as a journalist. We have explained the subject recording different views of the tutor, the headtress, the neighboring and some mothers, all represented by my colleagues. To establish the solution or the measures figuring out to solve the problem we had to look for a coexistent plan of a school, also we found the solution in the current law, because in the coexistent plan only it found the measures to be taken when sexual abuse is made from student to student, while the law is in every possible way.

On Monday when we arrived to class we saw videos of all our partners and we have to value them, highlighting the three things we most liked and one thing we've been missing.

As a star I found this activity very funny, as we have learned about the coexistent plan an entertaining and fun way to make a video documentary.

Here you have the video so you can see our work:

https://youtu.be/xu5dC8IkpXA

Thank you one more time for your attention and see you son guys.

Lucía.

A facilitator once again

Hello bloggers, here again Ana as a facilitator.

This week has been a little bit surprising and stressful for all of us. We thought that the game was going to be the last activity as we are almost finishing but it was not, so on Monday after giving prices (if you were asking yourself, no, we did not get any price) we started with a new and awesome activity.

In this activity we had to invent a problem that could happen in a school and we changed the problems with the other groups. Once we have changed, with the problem we had received we had to think a solution and record a video in which we had to seem to be in the news.

So after this, on Monday we start looking for information (all of us in our houses) and we found the “solution” that real schools could have. After this, we put all this information in common and we think on a definitive solution. Now it was the moment to record us.

We had lot of problems (as every week) because all of us have very different timetables and while some of us have to be at the official school, others have classes or whatever, so it is always very difficult and stressful to find a good solution. After lots of whatsapp messages we found a definitive solution in which all of us could stay at least one hour in order to help a little bit.

So, now we were on Wednesday and we have lunch all together, so at four o’clock we could start recording our star. All of us appear in the video, so it was very funny seeing ourselves just laughing hours and hours, but the final video was pretty good.

On Thursday we tried to mix all the small videos but the girl who had it was ill, so she said that she could do it at home, what we did was to subtitle all the video in terms to help her.

I think, apart from all the problems we had to found a day to record the video, we did a really good job and all of us worked a lot in different things. I personally believed that we are learning to work in groups.