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Collaborative activity: Atention to Diversity


Attention to diversity´ is the principle which should rule the whole Education. The LOE stablishes the implementation of all the necessary means to ensure that all the students reach their highest capacities and skills. Student's needs range from those with a more ordinary nature to others with extraordinary nature. According to regulations, each group should receive Special Educations Needs provision:
1. Ordinary Measures (Students as a whole)
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Special Education Needs provision within Mainstream Education (Students with specific need of ed. support)
2.
Separate Special Education Needs provision in Early Childhood and School Education (Students with specific need of ed. support)
3. Support Measures for learners in Early Childhood and School Education (Students in disadvantaged situation)


Development of the activity
Working in groups, you are going to think and develop a collaborative activity as the best way to make your mates understand and learn one of the items linked above. Although each will work with only one link, you should read the first one (more info) to get a proper understanding of the whole topic: attention to diversity. Once the content is clear, design the activity which should be developed in one hour session. In other words, you will have one hour to put it in practise with your mates.
School Guidance Practical Exercise
Education act: it is necessary to make people known about a least the main important needs that disabled people require and the existence of different factors or situations which affect more strongly to this kind of people. In order to adapt and treat them in the most correct way, it is important to know what are the special needs that

Education act:
It is necessary to make people more conscious about a least the main important needs that disabled people require and the existence of different factors or situations which affect more strongly to this kind of people. In order to adapt and treat them in the most correct way, it is important to know which are the special needs that should accompany them in their daily different activities.
Purpose:
The purpose which is expected to be reach, is mainly to empathize with disabled children and teenager by focusing in the aim of feel on our own skin, the set of needs that we require to develop an effective and appropriate education. In synthesis, the three principal purpose we seek are:
-          Attend and support disadvantages students
-          Base on equality
-          Find out necessary recourses
Development: the class will be divide into four groups of six members each one. Each group are representing the “school board” of different situations, the groups with varied problems. Starting with the approach of different situations, the group must consider in order to their children to receive the best educational training. Otherwise, if the own group decide that there is another center which will deserve the proposed activities the most, they could also support the help for the other center.
-          Colour papers to form the groups.
-          The lider from each group will pick a card to see which center in going to represent.
-          Randomly it will be chosen different situations to be proposed  to the centers represented.
-          After 5 minutes for each situation, the groups will explain aloud their points.
-          Finally each group will receive an informative sheet about the main concepts of the activity.
Groups:
1.      Center in a rural area of difficult access.
2.      Center of immigrant children who present difficulties about the language.
3.      Center of hospitalized children.
4.      Center of disabled children (mental retardation).
Situations:
1.      The department of education of Madrid, will launched a grant of 3,000 euro, why do you think your school have to receive this subsidy?
2.      Educational department of Madrid has organized a cultural trip to France for next month of June for a period of one week. Why do you think your center should get his trip better than others?
3.      It is organizing a visit of a group composed by a few comedians to one the centers. They will develop a humorous activity in which children will have to participate and enjoy with the professionals. Will your center enjoy this visit?
4.      It will organize a gastronomic feast in one of the centers where parents of students could bring a typical plate from their area. Do you think it is good idea that this event will be held at your center?
5.      Madrid education department is developing sports activities and will be responsible for providing a monitor specialized on these sports, do your students enjoy playing by making exercise?