The decision made with Clau to go beyond what is just said and written
on the board has been the correct one. I´m liking the idea of having students
experiencing what we learn in class instead of parroting lessons learnt by
heart and forgotten the following year. I love leaving a stamp on them so that
they never forget the projects. Helping Hands has been very successful,
students got to know different realities that people in our country live and
they now know that there is something, even if it is little, that can be done
to give a day of happiness to others. Now, green helping hands and the
presentations is actually teaching them that something must be done in order to
help our planet. Apart form repeating a lesson on how to separate rubbish, they
will put it into practice. And experiencing is what makes teaching meaningful.
Instead of teaching conditional sentences by drilling, for example, it has
become more memorable since they went to secondary to explain the consequences
of throwing rubbish the way we are doing it nowadays. I´m really liking it. I
found a quote that I liked and it´s related to what I want to achieve with the shcool
projects:
"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from
the book"
