THE SCHOOL OF MY OWN.- SCRIPT

-Who I am:

It’s nice to see you’re interested in my own vision of education.

First of all let me introduce myself.

I’m Francisco de Torres Redondo, I’m from Ceuta, and I’ve been living here since I was born twenty years ago.

This is my second year in my formation as teacher, so I know a little bit about the situation schools and education are passing through.

This video is made to show my own perspective of how to run a school.

MY OWN KINGDOM OF LEARNING

From the first day I started college on, I was asked why I wanted to be a teacher.

Honestly, Magisterium was not my first option.

At the beginning I wanted to study  for being a translator, but I couldn’t.

So I started this.

Thanks this I’ve seen how wrong education is planned is our country.

Everyone who has studied languages at school can notice that, actually, they don’t know anything about how to learn a language. They just know how to work in a grammar system without any oral practice.

First of all, our country just only offers English in Elementary school without giving any view of how we can learn it.

So. Let’s see.

BASICS!

I call basics those subjects that have always been there: Own language (Spanish), Maths and science.

We have to teach from a practical perspective, that is: We have to focus on the children to know what they enjoy the most, so it will constitute the first step to our journey.

-Spanish is the main language, so children will learn anything they desire, from their structures to its literature If we know how to motivate them

-Maths would be focus on the meaning of it in our lives. Why should we learn them? In my own school pupils wouldn’t have to make operations the whole time, but pretending currents problems in our life such as doing shopping or built a house.

-Science is that subject I’d love to see instead of study, I mean… How can we do someone to study something related with the environment without showing it to them? Not possible.

BASICS 2 LEVEL!

Gym, Music and Art are not considered the most popular subjects from the highest administration, but for children are the most enjoyable. Why? Because them have the capacity of developing  their talents, their feelings and their creativity.

-Gym let set us free from an entire day receiving information. We can run, dance, jump and so on.

-Music… Who doesn’t enjoy music? Everyone loves it.

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-Art let everyone show to the world what they want, what they are able to do with just their hands.

Maybe you are wondering what about religion… IN MY SCHOOL RELIGION IS NOT ALLOWED, WE ARE ALL EQUAL, NO TARGETS PERMITED.

We don’t teach from a specific religion, but our students will learn about all the cultures from the town as well

LANGUAGES:

I miss something… What is it? Of course! Language!

Knowing a second language permits everyone to have the chance to learn a third one and improve their abilities… But which must be taught?

First of all, children must learnt patterns of how learning a language, not introduce them to English (as any school from Spain does)

Students have to know the existence of other languages and the possibility of learning all of them.

In the basic levels we have to show different languages to make them be known, introducing and comparing their characteristic.

So, we would show the picture of an apple, and we’d tell them the way of name this in any language: Apple (English), Manzana (Spanish), Mela (Italian), Maçã (Portuguese) and Pomme (French)

This way we can show the great variety of languages and the interests of each child, because the one, who can’t find his way in English, has his or her chance in Italian, French, Portuguese and whatever they want.

IN MY OWN KINGODM OF LEARNING…

There are no obstacles for anybody. Is our mission motivating our students to make them good, wise and prepared people for the world we live in.

Architectonically, we could find the main building where all the classes are set, divided in levels. On the first floor the youngest one and the first level of primary school, the second one dedicated for the 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th level, and finally the third floor for the last two levels in this kind of education. The administration of the school could be found on the top of the construction.

Connected to the school there would be three pavilions, each one dedicated to three great areas:

1^st. On the left there is the Science pavilion, dedicated to maths, nature and human stuff. Here there are a laboratory and a eco-garden.

2^nd. In the middle, the art one where literature and paintings are shown. There a library and a museum can be found.

3^rd. The body coliseum, where a gymnasium and a theater are placed.