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Then I asked my colleagues to think about how often we have evaluated our students focusing on their mistakes instead of emphasizing the good qualities or aspects of their performances! Maybe because it wasn’t asked…but some of us started telling about the mistakes we had made and how we felt facing students’ evaluation. Obviously, school for us is a point of reference and if I should represent my mood and the path we have to follow during our training…well I would choose this image: The Hive stands for our school … but the bees need to fly far from it …so our reflection has to start from our school experience, but then we have to go furtherer…involving our deepest beliefs. Then I proposed to play at the “neighbourhood yard”: First teachers closed their eyes and I put on their forehead some little arrows of different colours. Two of them were left without coloured spots. When I told them to open their eyes, to look around and then to do what they felt to….they gathered forming groups of the same colours…….. 1° Istituto di Istruzione superiore “Archimede” di Rosolini Trainer: Maria Celauro
Then I asked them if someone wanted to change his/her group…but nobody wanted to move….and then I remarked that the people without the arrows had been left alone……………….. So, everybody agreed that they didn’t want to move because they felt protected by their group and they felt sorry about those who didn’t belong to any group…but most of the teachers didn’t know what to do with them… Then, starting from this issue, I invited my colleagues to think about how our students should feel when they meet their class mates for the first time: we consider them as a group, but as a matter of fact they aren’t a group yet and, as far as we can know, maybe they will never become a “class group”. Thus, to make our students sensitive towards a democratic approach, we should put in place some strategies in order to help them to interact each other correctly and to avoid this sort of stagnation and immobility, which usually causes the birth of closed groups. Then I proposed to play at the “Exchanging gifts”. I asked the trainees to imagine they have to do a gift to a person whom they care for….Well this is the result: Many teachers for the training and…as a consequence….many gifts on the board!! We started playing….. 1° Istituto di Istruzione superiore “Archimede” di Rosolini Trainer: Maria Celauro
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