Several trainings with the participation of English teachers and management teams from the four municipal schools of the Coinco commune, O'Higgins region, which are part of We Learn Net, as well as the communal Head of UTP, provided teachers with new strategies to increase exposure to the language outside the classroom, while together with the management teams they analysed the progress of their schools around the goals of the first semester.
These trainings took place in the framework of the first year of operation of the network of communes that promotes the teaching of English at an early age, where Coinco is the founding commune of the We Learn NET network, also composed of teachers and schools of the Elqui Valley.
On 7 June a training session was held for the English teaching teams, focusing on strategies to increase exposure to the language outside the classroom. In this instance, the organisation of a cultural event for the end of August at the Chillehue School was agreed upon. The teachers will work together with the school's management team and head teachers to organise a talent show. The students will have the opportunity to showcase their language skills within the school community.
Regarding this activity, teacher Martina Garay, values the work carried out together with the management teams, because "in this way the We Learn programme is taken more seriously and English is considered a relevant subject within the curriculum. These meetings allow us to have a guide to know what to focus on".
On 28 June, a training session was held for the commune's management teams to analyse the schools' progress towards their goals and to review how the actions proposed by We Learn Net are in line with the guidelines provided by the Ministry of Education for the subject. In addition, the first steps were taken together with the Head of the local UTP, Marlene González, to organise an English cultural event in which all the schools will participate, as part of the celebration of the anniversary of the commune in November.
This networking of the We Learn NET programme was appreciated by Marta Palacios, principal of the Chillehue School, who said: "the network works very well. The communication is good, and I also like the fact that they involve all members of the educational community in the work, so we get closer to the work of the teachers".
