CONCEPTUAL MAP'S COMPARISON: LOS GOCHOS VS. OTHERSIDERS (Ana Rallo)

 LOS GOCHOS'S MAP

                                  OTHERSIDER'S MAP

First of all; here we've got the maps that are being compared. 

On the left, we can find Los Gochos' map, where we could understand without any problem what is inclusive education. They divide inclusive Education in four different branches; cooperative learning, innovation, educational communities and classroom environment.

On the right side we can find our group’s map, where we decided to divide inclusive education into six branches; attitude, life (equals to education), cooperation, individuality, 21^st century generation and the important role that students should have.

If we start up with the comparison, we could think they are really different, but if we go deep into it, we’ll discover how in relation they are, I mean, of course they are in relation because they are about the same topic. In the case of Los Gochos, they spoke about the importance of cooperative learning, that, thanks to it, we can have a better result on inclusive education. In our case, we wrote about the cooperative learning in our branch of cooperation where we divide the branch into two more branches named relationship, which means how school should get in contact with students, parents, teachers and communities; all interconnected and the other branch about teamwork where we thought about the importance of having support from your groups and obtaining different ideas from the different people existing inside your cooperative group. We also thought about the relation of cooperative learning, of course, with education and life. We connected life to education because of the importance the education has in our life as we spend many ours inside school.

They spoke about innovation where we talked about our generation, the 21^st century one. The importance of rewriting the curriculum and adapting it to our nowadays society was shown in both maps. Also we could find how both groups thought about the importance of teacher’s formation and how we all should be open minded; one concept that wasn’t written down in our map and should.

When talking about the educational communities, they told us how important they feel the roles are inside and outside and they decided to give a huge space for it, something different to our case. As I have said before, about roles, we just spoke when talking about cooperation and maybe we should have thought of giving it a bigger importance.

Something I find different is about the individuality. We, Othersiders, gave a huge importance due to our group’s logo and differences. We included our logo on the map because of its meaning we explained in class on our first presentation, and we thought we couldn’t explain this in a better way than using our own logo.

Finally, I wanted to congratulate Los Gochos’ team because of the fourth branch; classroom environment where they spoke about how important is respect and some other values inside and outside the classroom. Also I wanted to say, they made a really great job because of the creativity of the map.