LearningAn integral learning process: cross-cutting

objectives

Teaching Learning!

Learning process

Teacher?: compass rose

Iceland - The national curriculum

Fundamental Pillars

Literacy

Sustainability

Health and Welfare

Democracy and Human Rights

Equality

Creativity

Cross-cutting objectives

Citizen education

DiversityDemocracy

Creativity/InnovationCritical Thinking

XXX- Culturalism

MulticulturalismInterculturalism

PluriculturalismEspecially nowadays, individuals are pluricultural in themselves

Our children: Bi/pluri- cultural

“El don de la palabra” José García Molina

So… How to use

diversity in our classrooms??

Democracy

Methodologies:

Authoritarian

Democratic

Libertarian

Educational spaces

Teacher role: to facilitate the learning process

Using their interests to introduce new knowledge

Let them discover by themselves what do they want to learn

Being an active part of your society - democracy - being a part of the space

Critical Thinking

Looking into the world- willing to improve it and to create your own opinion.

Amount of accesible information nowadays Vs. “Icelandic guest”

For small children: motivate questioning + create challenges

what do they want to learn?not too easy, not to difficult… just CHALLENGING!

Let´s practice!

Let´s play!

“All children are born artist, the difficult thing is to continue

being an artist when you grow up” P. Picasso

IMPOSSIBLE