51 teachers of this language and management teams from seven schools of the Municipal Corporation of Puerto Natales met in person to review the progress achieved with the We Learn program and project the challenges they will take on together in 2022.
This December 17th was a special day for English teachers and management teams from seven schools of the Puerto Natales Municipal Corporation, who met to review the work done during the year with the aim of promoting English learning in children and young people of the commune.
The schools Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins, Coronel Santiago Bueras, Capitán Juan Ladrillero, Baudilia Avendaño de Yousuff, Fronteriza Dorotea, Miguel Montecinos and Seno Obstrucción work together with Fundación Educacional Oportunidad's We Learn program, which focuses on improving the quality of English language education from an early age. In addition, this program has fostered network collaboration and has linked these schools with their peers in the Elqui Valley, in the Coquimbo Region.
The progress and achievements made during the year in this local and regional exchange and collaboration were evaluated in a learning session which, according to Pablo Muñoz, head of Continuous Improvement and Evaluation at Fundación Educacional Oportunidad, sought to "celebrate the achievements made during the 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 reflect on these issues based on data in order 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".
The We Learn program began to be implemented in 2019 in Puerto Natales thanks to an agreement with the Undersecretary of Early Childhood Education. The head of the program, Paz Collao, explained that "thanks to the support of the Undersecretary, we have been able to improve our English curriculum proposal at the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten levels, leaving a great input that we hope will contribute to formalising the teaching of the language at these levels through public policies".
He added that "the Puerto Natales Municipal Corporation has led the local implementation of the program in a very successful way. Its commitment to the education of children in Puerto Natales translates into the generation of collaborative work between teachers, management teams, education assistants and educators".
In closing, he added that "this has been fertile ground for innovation, the use of data for decision-making and continuous teacher and management training processes. We are happy to continue collaborating with them in the coming years, to see the We Learn Puerto Natales Improvement Network grow even more".
