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     In today class I have realised that teaching as a influence take into account many other aspects and not only talking or repeating throught words. A substantial portion of our communication is nonverbal. Every day we respond to thousands of nonverbal cues and behaviors including postures, facial expressions, eye gaze, gestures, and tone of voice. From our handshakes to our hairstyles, nonverbal details reveal who we are and impact how we relate to other people.     There are different types of non-verbal communication: - Kinesthetic: how we use our body. - Paralinguistic: how words are said. - Proxemic: how we interact. This class has been one of the most interesting because it provides us with consciousness about how we can use our body for helping during the learning process.  Afterwards, the Erasmus students presented their Guiding Program P.S.: Here I attached a video of Mr. Bean where it is exemplified the Non - Verbal Communication. https://youtu...

                                                                       Guiding Programs      During this class the presentations of the educational programs continued, in our case my group had already presented them, so our role was passive and critical at the same time.       There were several presentations, although the one I liked the most was the one that focused on an anti-bullying project called KIVA, where they faced this scourge from inside the classroom. In addition, I also liked the one that focused on students who have violent actions within the classroom and / or school.      As a personal opinion, I must admit that it is a bit tiresome to listen to each and every one of the educational programs presented in the same w...

  COMMUNICATIVE  STYLES:      As an indispensable part of our work we can talk about COMMUNICATION, the main topic of Unit 6. Since our weapon is the verbal language. There are different types of communication styles since for education: - Assertive Communication: Used to describe people that is able to bring up negative and positive ideas or points in the conversation. It is the ideal type of conversation.  - Passive Communication: when someone don't express feelings or wishes  and acepts the situation in any situation.  - Agressive Communication: when someone imposes their feelings using even violence. - NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION: This type of communication do not involve any verbal action. They use gestures, expressions, body language, movements, etc.      ·Aggressive: when someone imposes his/her feelings, wishes or thoughts using even violence.      ·Assertive: this style is the most appropriate in most conversati...

Today's class has been different from what it would normally be because thanks to the combination of this subject with Educational Psychology.  Today's class has been different from what it would normally be because thanks to the combination of this subject with Educational Psychology during the cultural week of the Faculty, we have attended a talk given by teachers from schools that follow the Montessori method.  The theoretical part, explained for about an hour, was very interesting but the part that I liked the most and that I found most useful was the practical part because we have been able to see the methodology applied with different materials.  My opinion about this way of teaching and educating is clear. I think that the materials are really useful and should be applied in other educational forms but I consider that this method is too flexible.  I believe that all children should be free but that does not release them from knowing where the limits are, ...