- The Hik Hasi educational journal has organized a two-course course for elementary school teachers. Besides the theoretical sessions, during the course you will learn about the practice of four schools and the first visit was made on November 26 at the Txiki School in Larraul. Despite Saturday, the author of the book Bidean, Koldo Rabadam, all the team of teachers of the Larraul Public School, and also the students were waiting for them. "What has surprised us the most is that children start working together on their own, without the teacher ordering anything from them," says Hik Hasi, head of training, Mikel Agirrezabala. And it goes on: "In Bidean Rabadam has explained perfectly that the goal is for each educator to break their inner wall, and in practice we have seen that this is possible, although the reality that every teacher lives in their school is different."
Mikel Agirrezabala, head of training for Hik Hasi, confesses that "shocked the receptions": "It has been a gift for us that on a Saturday morning the entire team of Larraul educators and educators work in school and also students as well. This requires the involvement of all, it is a sign that the school is alive, and we are also very grateful to the families". The teachers state that in exchange for the Saturday work day, they will enjoy the students: "This Friday's assembly will ask you what special things you want to do to recognize your work."
The 40 people who visited the Larraul School are qualified observers, as among the people who have enrolled in the Hik Hasi course are small school teachers, ikastolas teachers, public school teachers, Christian school -- and also college students. "Some of them are representatives of the centers that are in transformation, they have been selected in their cloister in order to bring to the group the knowledge they receive in the course and transform the centers."
Freedom to develop their own project in workshops and preparation of specific sessions
At Larraul Public School, 2-12 year-olds work daily mixed. Through the workshops they go into free circulation, each decides what project they want to develop and it is common for students to interact, collaborate or observe how others work. Reading the book "Bidean", published by ARGIA, the reader will understand better what his approach is.
The teachers acknowledge that this visit has been very different from that of the accustomed: "Usually 4-5 people come to know the inside of the school, and this time 40 people have entered the class, much more than the students. But I think the attitude students take is to proudly show how they work in their school."
Agirrezabala explains that the equilibrium known in the ways of teaching in Larraul has become interesting: "Free movement and specific sessions combine both, which we found very necessary, otherwise there is a danger of going from one end to the other".
At the end of the visit, the participants of the Hik Hasi course have asked many questions (the photo is from that moment). Agirrezabalaga has valued Koldo Rabadam’s ability to speak from empathy and spread his passion for transformation: "Each teacher lives a very different reality in his school, but Rabadan sends the message very well, noting that first each has to throw his inner walls and that it is possible to start making small changes from his own reality."
Other schools to visit Hik Hasi
The course will last two academic years and each month the students receive an eight-hour module. The goal is to put the educator in place and train. To get to know in practice the work of the theoretical sessions, they will visit four educational centers in the Basque Country.
The first visit was to Larraul, according to Agirrezabala, "because we wanted to know the reality of the Eskola Txikiak, because its structure is singular and interesting and pedagogically a reference at the level of Euskal Herria. Among the Eskola Txikiak, we went to Larraul, because the book Bidean has played half in the spirit of transformation."
The other centers that will visit during the course are Mendigoiti from Pamplona (with work in neuroscience), Arizmendi ikastola de Arrasate (in process of transformation at the center level) and Herrikide de Tolosa (with emotional intelligence work).