More information on the Escuela de Tiempo Pleno (EITP)
For the past three weeks the staff of the centro escolar and I have been attending full day saturday training sessions on how to transition to the new teaching methodology this upcoming school year. Essentially it is requiring more community involvement, more resources for the school and a student-led learning philosophy. The National Univerisity of El Salvador (UCA) was contracted to provide the training and facilitate the process. The lending library fits perfectly with this model and is part of the reason that Centro Escolar Las Marias was selected to be the pilot school for the municipality.
The school day will be longer as workshops will be offered to enrich learning and aid students in project-based learning activities which will be implemented. Parents, community leaders and former students will be called on to run and or coordinate some of these workshops thus involving the community in the educational system.
A challenge posed with the model of extended school hours, which we have already heard concerns about, is from parents who are concerned that they will not have children at home as much to help with the home chores and especially during crop peak seasons. As such, the model will be implemented slowly and on a few days per week.
A program to be developed through a fellowship from Queen's University and continues through donations from the community. We serve rural schools within the jurisdiction of Yucuaiquin de La Union. Un programa comenzado con la asistencia de la Universidad de Queen's y que continua por medio de donaciones de la comunidad. Nuestro programa sirve a las comunidades del sur de Yucuaiquin, La Union, El Salvador.
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