Didactic unit

We did a didactic unit by groups; my group did it using brainstorming. Firstly we introduced the brainstorming to the whole class because a lot of people didn’t know its meaning.
Brainstorming is a didactic strategy which consists to tell different ideas or concepts that people have in relation with a concrete topic.

 

The objectives of our didactic unit were:

-   Promote the participation.

-   To make the people think in their own.

-   To respect the turn of speaking to the rest of the people.

-   To reduce the shyness, because all the ideas which are connected with the theme are valid.

-   To know how to work in different ways (individually, smalls groups…)

 

We did some activities:

-   ACTIVITY 1: In groups, they have to discuss in which things they save up energy (brainstorming).

-   ACTIVITY 2: Ideas – In each group the students have to work in one of the ideas that they have presented before.

-   ACTIVITY 3:  TABÚ – Each member of their group has to explain with words his/her form to save up energy without saying the words which appear in the sentence.

I think it was funny and at the same time our “students” were learning. Two days ago I thought that brainstorming was a strategy only for children. But when we did our didactic unit, I realized that it is not true. We are not used to do this type of activities. We do usually everything faster. We need to think about our decisions often.

We should use brainstorming before reading a text. If we do it, our brain will be prepared to read the text. Or for example, when we have a conflict, we should keep calm and make a brainstorming to find a solution.