A good example to be guided by

Today, Pilar Alonso, the responsable for the counselling and innovation department of the Gaudem School came to our class to explain us what her role is at school.

In this school, diversity is focused on deaf students and special needs: problems related to language, autism, high achievement and development difficulties.

The main problem that she found was the lack of ethic. She said that because in her opinion, everyone want to attend diversity, everyone want to give an inclusive education… but for doing that we have to know how to do it, to learn about it, we have lots of theory but practice is another thing.

For Pilar, there is not an only model, there are much of them. She focuses on the inclusive model, she does not want to substitute any teacher, she is just a supportive agent for them but teachers are those who deal with diversity.

At Gaudem school, children are not taken out of the classroom to be evaluated, it is done in very few times. In these occasions, child is firstly evaluated inside the classroom to observe how he or she acts on the class context. For doing it, specialists and teachers based on the principles of permanence, participation and learning. These are not adaptations, they only eliminate classroom barriers in order to make these children able to learn inside it.

I really like that Pilar came to our class because is good to know the point of view of a real counsellor, as she said, theory is one thing and practice is another one so this experience, a real experience, is going to be good for our future job.

Here you have the Power Point Presentation she used to show some clue points:

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