EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE AND TUTORIAL ACTION: MY EXPERIENCE

  Today’s class was focused on non-verbal communication. We learned about the different types of non-verbal communication that exists: proxemic (the way I interact with someone, how close I am with that person…), paralinguistic (related with the tone of the voice, the intensity, the pitch…) and kinesthetic (related to body communication, gestures…). I have attached a visual example to today’s post 😊 I consider that this is a quite important feature for everyone, but specially for teachers. Firstly, in an academic perspective, as depending on our non-verbal communication (if we make gestures, the voice we use, the tone…) our students will process the information better or not. Non-verbal communication is used EVERYTIME we are interacting with other individuals, and, as teachers, half of our day consist of interact with children. As tutors that want to help our students and ger approach to them, we might find difficult this task if we have a bad verbal communication, as we can be perc

  This is the first class that we have had after Easter holidays. I did not write a post for the 7 th of April as the class was online, but I could not attend to it as I was on my way to return to my city. In this class, we continued with the presentation that we had left about the guiding program. There were really interesting presentations (that you can find clicking here ) but I am going to focus today post to my group’s guiding programme. We have decided to talk about KIVA, an anti-bullying programme developed by a university in Finland and that focuses on providing the necessary resources to those kids that are silent (those who see and bullying situation and are so scared of suffer the same that decide not to intervene or tell anyone). I think the class enjoyed our program and I consider that we did a great job. You can see our program clicking here.

  Today we were supposed to continue (or even finished) the expositions about our guiding programs. However, on the previous class we had a talk with the personal and managers of a Montessori school and it took almost all the time of the class of EG&TA. In this session, they explained us their beliefs (theories that they used as a background), methodology and they even did a demonstration with a role-play using their material. I had mixed feelings about this talk: in one hand, I really liked their methodology and the material they used to innovate the explanation of some topics (like multiplications) and I think they use new methodologies that can be used as well in other school. However, this material is not cheap and can be affordable for only a few people (it is not fair), and, another think that I did not like is related to this class and something that EG&TA teacher said as well: they have talked a lot about didactics, methodologies, and in general, academical stuff, but