"Teachers need to learn more about methodologies, emotional education and conflict resolution"

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At first glance, you may not be familiar with the name Óscar Casado , but if you have followed social media in 2018 and are up to date with educational trends, you will surely recognise his name more easily. Casado is a teacher from Castilla y León who at the end of 2017 was nominated for best teacher in Spain in the Early Childhood Education category within the EDUCA ABANCA awards .

"It was a complete surprise, I wasn't expecting it ," she says. When she was told about it, she didn't even know about the prize, so she went to the first edition thinking it was an honour to be there, but she couldn't imagine being among the 10 finalists, and even less receiving the honour. Her candidacy was proposed by the families of her students at a centre in the city of León where she had been working that year.

The award, therefore, has been the perfect excuse to chat with him for a while and for him to tell us his vision of Education in Spain, but also his opinion as a student in online training for cayman islands phone data teachers . During this year, Oscar has focused on getting his thesis off the ground, which we will talk about below, but he has also found time to provide some training for teachers and even talks on topics such as child autonomy and self-regulation.

- We are delighted to have you in this space and to be able to learn more about the concerns of the education sector. A very common question, as well as difficult to answer, but I have to ask you: What would you say is the philosophy or methodology of a good teacher?

- Ufff, (laughs). There is no pure methodology. They all draw from many sources and feed off each other. I don't think there is any teacher who uses a single methodology, but rather they combine aspects of several. There are many, and they are the traditional ones, the ones we have known for 100 years, and they are basically the so-called Active Methodologies: project-based learning, cooperative learning, gamification, etc. We have some examples like Montessori, which seems to be an educational fad now, but they have always been known. Why hasn't it been used before? Why haven't children been taught according to these methodologies?

The most important thing about this, and here I am going beyond the usual answer, is to prepare the children so that they are ready. The important thing is that teachers are able to use all the methodologies and combine them at the same time.

- Is this educational innovation for you?

- We could say yes. Implementing active methodologies in class is innovation because until now teaching was understood much more from a traditional approach, following the book. In any case, any innovation, educational change and agreement that does not start by reducing ratios in classrooms is doomed to failure.