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8. To promote the use of Information and Communication Technologies.
Students profile
My students are in their last year of Primary Education. They are completing 6th grade of Primary and they are between 11 and 12 years old.
At this age, children are characterised by the consolidation of the concrete-operational stage. This means they are able to mentally represent organised sequences related to their own experience. Students typically show an interest in broadening their knowledge and are more receptive to the stimulus that surround them; they show an enormous progress in the development of language, which becomes an instrument to open new intellectual and social perspectives before them.
In 6th grade of Primary Education there are two groups: each group with twenty-five students.
We should talk about four different levels of development in Primary 6.
- Cognitive level. Concrete logic more fully developed, with a transition from abstract thinking to a formal logic.
- Movement level. There is full consolidation of their fine motor skills and their control of their bodies.
- Social-affective level. Partners are really important and they tend to relate very strongly with their friends.
- Communicative level. Children are settling their communicative and linguistic competence in the languages they speak and understand.
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