BASICS OF THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM II: ANALYST

Hello everyone, It's Noelia!
It's a pleasure coming back to write for you! 

This week my role is the analyst. The analyst "has to evaluate the work of the group" so... Let's evaluate! But first, let met tell you what we did (if you don't it's impossible to understand my evaluation).

This week the task consisted on creating 4 questions (and their respective answers) for each of the six topics we had to work in.

Those topics were about the educational system (we actually had to focuse on non-university institutions' educational system),a very common topic studied in some of our freshman year's subjects such as school planning, tutorial action or even student diversity. Besides, it is also a popular topic addressed on some discussion shows, news and so on. In my opinion, this might be so populabecause of the politic change we are going to be through at the end of the year and the new politic parties (as well as the society in general)' claim for a better education.

As Easter was coming, we divided the group in 3 subgroups for working two topics (and doing their respective questions) by subgroup. After that, we put al the questions together thanks to Google Drive and the facilitator printed them in the specfic size required (9cmx5cm). In the presentation day, 7UP! and us evaluated the whole questions from the topic 2 and fill in some surveys.

If I had to say two best parts of the activity (I actually have to say one, but if there are two they must be said), I would probably consider the first  one the possibility of working in something that will help us in the not too distant future. The educational system is something we must know for our job as teachers and it's a good idea to work on it from the first year of the degree. Besides, the way in which we have been doing it (the conceptual maps, the cards and finally the game, which will be developed in two weeks) is less boring than if we had to read the law so the content will be learnt in an easier and more dynamic way. Moreover, it shows us another way of teaching and the good results it has for learning, in another words, it gives us a chance to improve our pedagogy.
Furthermore, the second one was working in tandem with 7UP! as it is a good experience for all of us  becuase our work will consist exactly on what we did, working in tandem with other people and evaluate. It's a good training.

Regarding the worse part of the activity and the week, I must say that there's nothing catastrophic that happened and must to be mentioned. However, there was something that worried us a bit and it was the card's print. None of us had done any card and with that specific size so we had to think a lot about the way of writting everything down  and how to print it. Finally, the copyist explained us how to do it and everything turn out well.

As you can see we have learnt a lot of worth-learning things this week: educational system, print stuff, making questions, defending and supporting our arguments (for agreeing on the mark in the surveys). It has been a very worthwile week.

All of this good way of working and all these things learnt have been possible thanks to our willingness to work so good, maybe due to the fact that, during Easter, we recharged our batteries and our efficiency during and after it has been higher. So, although we have already began this second four month period and the batteries are running low, we must conserve this enthusiasm and efficiency as it's going to help us a lot along the time that is left. Also, we have to continue improving because this good week doesn't mean that we can stop doing it. This is just a previous result of an improving process, the real result will be in the end of this long way across soyer1415, and it will be so much bigger and better.

This are my this week's reflections.
I hope you like it and learnt from it as well.
See you soon, everybody!
Meerkat Analyst