Las Comunidades de Práctica Virtuales. Un espacio de participación para la mejora de las prácticas educativas del profesorado

AN ARROW IN THE BULLSEYE - Evaluation as learning - Evaluation is an educational phenomenon that conditions the whole teaching and learning process and it can be good for many purposes. The important thing is to use it as learning, as a way of understanding, to improve the practices to which it is applied. The metaphor of the arrow in the bullseye is good to understand, in an obvious way, that one may evaluate to classify, to compare, to select or, simply, to qualify. It is necessary, however, to use it to learn and to improve the learning of the students, the dynamics of the centres, the...

¿Quién puede afirmar con honestidad que jamás se ha postrado frente a un espejo y sentido que la imagen que éste le devuelve es la de un extraño? ¿Quién puede aseverar que jamás se ha sentido un pasajero extraño dentro de su propio cuerpo o se ha quedado horrorizado al recuperar de la memoria acontecimientos realizados por uno mismo pero que parecieran obedecer a una lógica completamente ajena a la propia? Ese desdoblamiento, ese pequeño intersticio entre nuestro ser, el que enfrenta las vicisitudes de la cotidianeidad, y ese yo que pareciera habitar en un tiempo que es todo menos...

PROPOSALS FOR USE IN THE CLASSROOM - Techniques to achieve a favourable climate in the classroom - This book offers a series of practical proposals to create a pleasant and positive class climate that makes work satisfying, facilitates relationships and gives the teacher joy in his task. It includes interesting annexes on self perception of the subject, stress of the teacher, evolutionary psychology, and a pedagogical dictionary.

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