Reflection about 'Los Minions'

Ana González's reflection:

Today, ‘The Minions’ have presented their work at class .They have created a didactic sequence about the content of music’s subject to show how children can learn through the cooperative learning. They chose an specific part of this subject: the orchestra. To practice some  techniques of cooperative learning they planned some dynamic  and creative sessions to motivate pupils to learn by a entertained .

They chose the jigsaw technique to learn children to work cooperatively, to fulfill responsibilities, to respect different opinions or ideas, etc.  I liked the activities of each session because children can develop their creativity and share their ideas all together, play and have fun and develop skills while they are learning some content. In this way, they can expand and improve their knowledge because they receive a lot of information from the other partners and they can their doubts and help each others
To finish this sequence, the children must evaluate themselves to explain their progress  and their results with a personal diary. This is the most important activity for our partners because children can explained how they feel with these activities. They can explained if they like them or not, how was the cooperative work, what they have learnt, etc.  Through this evaluation, our partners as teachers could analyze if they have fulfilled their objectives with these activities.
 In my opinion, this is an interesting way to evaluate children because they assess this didactic sequence and, at the same time, they can improve some skills like writing, critical thinking or creativity, for example, but, I would include a group evaluation because children also have to evaluate in group how they have work through the cooperative learning. In spite of that, this is an good project to teach children all of them have the same importance and they have to work together to get a good class job.