Hola amigos de Home Edders soy @emimoron y continuo comprometida con el apoyo a los papás para que puedan desarrollar con mayor facilidad este rol de educadores en contenidos académicos que a raíz de la pandemia han asumido, porque si bien es cierto que antes de todo esto ayudábamos a los chicos a realizar sus tareas ahora nos toca ser los maestros y los papás al mismo tiempo.
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This post is dedicated to all of you who, like me, faced the hard task of creating pleasant spaces for "classes" in our homes. Certainly our homes are arranged to be cosy places, where we feel the love, peace, tranquillity and security that we don't have in the street, but we don't design spaces for learning, apart from the fact that we can have an office or library, it is not the same as a classroom.
Este post está dedicado a todos los que como yo se enfrentaron a la dura tarea de crear espacios agradables para las “clases” en nuestro hogar. Ciertamente nuestras casas están dispuestas para que sean lugares acogedores, donde se sienta el amor, paz, tranquilidad y seguridad que en la calle no tenemos, pero no diseñamos espacios para el aprendizaje, fuera de que podamos tener una oficina o biblioteca no es igual que un aula de clases.
One of the most frequent mistakes when starting the process of education at home is to believe that any place is equal to develop academic activities and, my dear readers, this is far from being suitable for learning. Think about this for a moment: If it has been difficult for you as adults to do your work from home (if we had a job outside the home) because of the large number of distractions that can be found there, imagine our children. That is why it is necessary to select a space that we can make favourable and pleasant for study, that is why I propose the following:
Uno de los errores más frecuentes cuando se inicia el proceso de educación en casa se encuentra en creer que cualquier lugar es igual para desarrollar las actividades académicas y, eso mis estimados lectores está muy lejos de ser apto para el aprendizaje. Piensen por un momento lo siguiente: Sí a ustedes como adultos les ha sido cuesta arriba realizar su trabajo desde el hogar (esto si teníamos un trabajo fuera de casa) por la gran cantidad de distracciones que en este se puede tener, imagínense a nuestros hijos. De allí que es necesario la selección de un espacio que podamos hacer favorable y agradable para el estudio por ello les propongo lo siguiente:
1.- Bedrooms or bedrooms are not for studying The bedroom is the place that our brain associates with rest and this has been engraved in the depths of our unconscious, it is also the favourite place of some parents to punish their children with the typical phrase "you will stay in your room punished until I say so" in that case we have two defined and engraved ideas of what the bedroom is: firstly the place where I go to sleep and secondly where I sometimes find myself punished. Now to introduce in the child's mind that the bedroom will also be my classroom is a failed act unless we adapt the space, and I say this in the last resort, if there is no other place at home, we will place a desk or table and chair and we will try to visually separate the bed from the study space. Because even if I don't want it my mind will tell my body let's go to sleep.
1.- Las habitaciones o dormitorios no son para estudiar Les explico el dormitorio es el lugar que asocia nuestro cerebro con el descanso y esto se ha grabado en lo más profundo de nuestro inconsciente, también es el lugar favorito de algunos padres para castigar a sus hijos con la típica frase “te quedaras en tu cuarto castigado hasta que yo diga” en ese caso tenemos dos ideas definidas y grabadas de lo que es la habitación: primero el lugar donde voy a dormir y segundo donde a veces me encuentro castigado. Ahora introducir en el pensamiento del niño que la habitación también será mi salón de clases es un acto fallido a menos que adaptemos dicho espacio y, de corazón les digo esto en última instancia sino hay otro lugar en casa, para ello ubicaremos un escritorio o mesa y silla y trataremos de separar visualmente la cama del espacio del estudio. Porque aunque no lo quiere mi mente le dirá a mi cuerpo vamos a dormir.
2. - A quiet place without much noise, disturbance or distraction When selecting the place where my child is going to study, whether I am giving the lesson or he is on his own, we must consider that it is not a busy place in the house, for example I have found friends and relatives who have made the dining room table the classroom, For example, I have come across friends and relatives who have made the dining room table the classroom, where in addition to the daily chores, the child is subjected to the opening and closing of the front door, people walking around the common area, mum and dad doing the housework, siblings playing next to them or even worse, someone watching TV while the child is trying to learn a lesson. It is not a question of locking them in the last corner of the house but to get a space where our child associates the idea of study and finds his or her concentration.
2.- Un lugar tranquilo sin mucho ruido, perturbación o distracción Al seleccionar el lugar donde mi hijo vaya a estudiar ya sea que yo esté dándole la lección o el este por su cuenta, debemos considerar que no sea un lugar muy transitado de la casa, por ejemplo me he encontrado con amigos y familiares que han hecho de la mesa del comedor el salón de clases, donde además del quehacer diario el niño está sometido al abrir y cerrar de la puerta de entrada, al caminar de las personas por el área común, a mamá y papá haciendo las labores del hogar, a los hermanos jugando a su lado o peor aún a alguien mirando la tv mientras el niño trata de aprenderse la lección. No se trata de encerrarlos en el último rincón de la casa pero si de conseguir un espacio donde nuestro hijo asocie la idea del estudio y encuentre su concentración.
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A place with good lighting and ventilation Good lighting makes the child work less when reading or visualising study material, good ventilation creates a pleasant space. Remember the temperature of the environment is a factor that can get out of control, in my school days I remember that in the last grade of primary school I managed to start learning when the air conditioning in the classroom was damaged, and if you can laugh but in addition to the teacher suffering from heat and put the air conditioning at maximum I had a place where it hit me directly and even though I wore a jacket I ended up with frozen hands, a runny nose and severe headaches and I assure you that nobody learns like that.
3.- Un lugar con buena iluminación y ventilación La buena iluminación hace que el niño se esfuerce menos al momento de leer o visualizar el material de estudio, la buena ventilación crea un espacio agradable. Recuerde la temperatura del ambiente es un factor que nos puede descontrolar, en mis días de escuela recuerdo que en el último grado de la primaria logre comenzar a aprender cuando el aire acondicionado del salón se dañó, y si pueden reírse pero adicional que la maestra sufría de calorones y ponía el aire acondicionado al máximo a mí me tocaba un lugar donde me pegaba directo y por más que usaba una chaqueta terminaba con las manos congeladas, la nariz goteando y fuertes dolores de cabeza y les aseguro así nadie aprende.
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4.-Allow the child to participate in the selection of the place that will be used for study Nothing excites a child more than having the freedom to participate in decisions that he/she considers to be transcendental such as being able to choose where the decoration will be, even if he/she wants to put a different colour on the walls than the rest of the house, this will help us to create a really pleasant space so that he/she feels that the process of education at home is a wonderful journey.
4.- Permitir que el niño participe en la selección del lugar que será destinado para el estudio nada emociona más a un niño que tener la libertad de participar en decisiones que él considera son trascendentales como el poder elegir qué lugar será la decoración, incluso si desea poner un color diferente en las paredes al resto de la casa, eso nos ayudará a crear un espacio realmente agradable para que el sienta que el proceso de la educación en casa es un paseo maravilloso.
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As someone who has experienced both the school system and homeschooling (by choice, rather than due to the pandemic) for my children, something I learnt along the way is that education doesn't always have to be in a formal setting. Also different settings work better for different children, depending on their learning styles and personality.
For younger children, I agree. Even with a desk set up in there, my girls preferred the living room floor. They hated sitting still on any tale or chair. Perhaps their experience in the school and having to sit (often bored) for long periods put them off. Being on the living room floor gave them a certain freedom to move around as they wanted and, surprisingly they absorbed information better this way.
As they got older this changed. My eldest liked her personal space and her bedroom was it, so she would do nearly all of her work there, even her homework, when she went back to school for about a year, except when she felt she wanted company. Then she'd come out to the dining table.
My youngest (now nearly 18) does her work at a desk, but this is through official channels for highschool and she does indeed seem to have chosen a space as you describe.
Another key point is found in the age and learning style, my son was hyperactive from a very young age and was easily bored of the spaces until we were building together a place where he could find his concentration, hence the importance of allowing them to participate in choosing the right place for study, today he is already a young man of 19 years and although he does not live with me where he is, he tries to have his place of peace to do his academic work.
In my country, most of the schools have a design inspired by the old army barracks, they are grey and cold spaces, not at all favourable for studying. One of the things I like to tell parents is that it is not about a formal space, but a pleasant space that is ready for study, because in our growth, the modelling of behaviour has a lot to do with the environment.
Excelentes consejos realmente hoy en día es indispensable con contar con espacios en nuestros hogares que favorezcan al aprendizaje. Gracias por compartir