Education is the engine of change, and at the Alma Foundation, we know this very well. This new year, our work in Bolivia continues to make steady progress, consolidating our efforts at the Juan Misael Saracho Teacher Training Schools in Tarija and the Clara Parada de Pinto Schools in Beni.
Since January, we have successfully implemented key actions that strengthen the training of future teachers. In fact, in both departments, the ESFM (Higher Teacher Training Schools) have officially incorporated our workshops into their academic schedules, ensuring that students in their first through fifth years of training have access to learning spaces designed by Alma to enhance their teaching skills.
One of the most significant advances has been our work with fifth-year students, with whom we have completed the mentoring process for this first semester, focusing on adjusting their lesson planning documents. These PDCs will be implemented in the coming months during their teaching practice in public school classrooms in Beni and Tarija. Through this process, we are incorporating critical thinking and emotional education strategies, in addition to improving the structure of the planning processes with formats that articulate curricular content sequentially and coherently.
At the same time, we are reaching the final phase of developing training guides, a material designed by the Alma Foundation to support students from their first to fifth years of training in both ESFM (Higher Education Institutions). These guides will provide key tools to improve the results of their teaching practices and will include our work approach based on critical thinking and emotional education strategies. In addition, they will contain information on relevant topics such as curriculum evaluation, classroom management, the use of new technologies in education, research tools, and the identification of pedagogical problems in the classroom, among other fundamental topics for teacher training.
Every workshop, every session, and every resource we develop reinforces our commitment to education. We know that transformation begins in the classroom and that the impact of a well-prepared teacher multiplies in each generation of students. That’s why we continue to work with passion and dedication, because we believe that education has a soul, and with it, all change is possible.
By:
Andrea Fernández B.
Fifth-year Formation Students. ESFM Juan Misael Saracho – Tarija
Coaching sessions to adjust lesson plans