By Brittany Brown | International Alliances Coordinator
With the help of donors like you, Educación 2020 is bringing innovation to vulnerable classrooms throughout Chile. Today we wanted to share the progress being made at in two schools in particular, the Colegio de Santa María in Melipilla (near Santiago in Chile's central region), and the Escuela Angol in Malleco (in Chile's southern Araucanía region).
Both schools are working with Educación 2020 on the implementation of Tutorial Relationships, a UN-backed methodology that allows students to become the protagonists of their own learning process.Colegio Santa María and Escuela Angol are part of a 30-school network implementing Tutorial Relationships in Chile. Using this methodology, teachers change the paradigm of teaching and learning by training their students to "tutor" peers in areas of personal interest. Tutoring sessions allow students to learn topics linked with the national curriculum through a participative process that has been shown to create lasting results in a variety of international contexts.
Students at these schools will:
Tutorial Relationships is implemented gradually at each school, and is now in process with a pioneer group of ten 4th grade teachers at both Colegio de Santa Maria and Escuela Angol. These ten teachers are trained in the theory and practice of the Tutorial Relationships method, and are now preparing to train ten pioneer students to become tutors. One history teacher from the Escuela Angol said of the Tutorial Relationship training:
"This experience was different, unexpected, and I enjoyed it a lot because I learned in a totally different way. I learned through conversing with another person (during the tutoring session). I think this will have a really positive effect on the students."
Not long from now, the methodology will launch in classrooms and eventually spread to other grade levels! It's an exciting time for these schools, and we will continue to keep you in the loop as their journey toward classroom innovation continues! Thank you for making this possible.
Un abrazo,
The Educación 2020 Team
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