Nieves Maya Workshops
NO SMOKING
The Basque Government organized a workshop called ‘‘ Classes Without Smoke ’’, which lasted two days , and which was against teenage smoking . In it , we eighth graders , with Mariana as our teacher , learned about the dangers of smoking and its negative effects . In the form of creative cartoons , photographs , or videos about experiments , we have learned astonishing facts which , we believe , should convince anyone that smoking is bad for your health . In addition to that , we had to ask our parents to answer a question sheet about common facts about smoking such as , what percentage of the Spanish population smokes . We also had to check that we had the correct answers . Amongst all of this , we ourselves also had to answer another questionnaire , admitting whether we have smoked once or twice , smoke daily , or have never even thought of doing it . Although this proved to be quite boring and dull , there was a more lucrative part to the workshop : we had to design a t-shirt in groups . It had to go against smoking and , if it was good enough , we would win a special prize from the Basque Government . However , all we have received is the T-Shirt designed by the winners , which says that at least we have learned all kinds of things about smoking and have been effectively warned against it !
Teachers
By : Carmen Rita and Ainhoa ( 8t h Grade )
Nieves Maya Workshops
Throughout the course of this year , the teachers of our school has had four workshops with Nieves Maya , a woman licensed in Educational Sciences at the University of Navarra . She is currently the director at a school in Vitoria-Gasteiz and is developing innovative projects non-stop . Nieves also writes about her studies and observations and some of the most important works is being the co-writer of the two books called “ Conocer el cerebro para la excelencia en la educación ” and “ Causas médicas del fracaso escolar y tratamientos para superarlo .”
At our school , she provided the teachers with some very helpful advice . She walked in with a very precise goal which was to “ highlight , transmit and remind teachers of the importance and value of their work .” She recommended making students aware of their learning to help ourselves be provided with life-long skills . Some of the long list of objectives she had was to “ report on multiple intelligences and activities to work with them ” and to be “ reminded of motivational strategies ” to help both students and teachers to always do their best .
She also spoke about the eight different kinds of intelligences that we have ; each person has a different way of thinking and it is very important to keep in mind that THEY ARE ALL JUST AS GOOD .
-Logical Intelligence consists in solving complex problems very quickly and it is often found in Maths .
-Linguistic Intelligence consists in having languages come easily to you and be capable of communicating .
-Spatial Intelligence is about grasping and understanding information visually .
-Musical Intelligence consists in learning by listening and music in these people ’ s lives is very important .
-Kinesthetic Intelligence is about developing movements of the body that can later help to carry out certain tasks and solve certain problems .
-Natural Intelligence is having the capacity of understanding the natural world in general . People like this can very easily reflect about things happening around them .
-Interpersonal Intelligence is considered to be able to know and understand other people ’ s feelings with this , know how to react and help .
-Intrapersonal Intelligence consists in understanding and learning how to work with one ’ s self and also have easy access to your own emotions .
An interesting fact about these intelligences is that they can be found and traced down physically by analyzing one ’ s brain .
To conclude , it is very important to observe that many IB learner profile traits can be found in the v a r i o u s t y p e s o f intelligences which we will all need to develop .
By : Sara Jata Goiri ( 9th Grade )