Together with the management and DAEM teams of 15 public schools in the municipalities of Vicuña and Paihuano, they reviewed the results for 2021 and sought opportunities for improvement to further enhance the learning of this language in children and young people.
During the pandemic, between distance and remote classes and sending materials to homes, 43 education professionals from public schools in Vicuña and Paihuano have worked together and shared the best strategies so that children and young people can continue to improve their English language learning. With the aim of analysing what has been done and looking for opportunities to continue improving, they met in person on 14 December for a learning session of the We Learn program.
This program of Fundación Educacional Oportunidad seeks to contribute to the improvement of the quality of education in English from an early age and has encouraged public schools in the Elqui Valley to collaborate and participate in networks that allow them to improve their pedagogical and leadership practices.
The head of Continuous Improvement and Evaluation at Fundación Educacional Oportunidad, Pablo Muñoz, explained that "we met to celebrate the achievements made this year in terms of the professional development of teachers and management teams in the teaching of English and also in terms of student learning".
She added that "we also reflect on these issues based on data to be able to draw lessons that we will incorporate and that will allow us to continue improving the English language learning of children and young people".
Paz Collao, head of the We Learn program, explained that one of the objectives for the coming year will be to analyse the institutionalisation of the learning that the schools have accumulated over the years they have been part of the program. "Schools have done an enormous amount of work over the last few years, creating, testing and implementing ideas to improve English language teaching for their students. When evidence is gathered locally that the ideas work, the next step is to make sure that these changes are sustained over time. We are supporting them in this process of continuous reflection," he said.
