"At the Amún Shéa Communications Club we demonstrated that practice is the most effective form of learning, it makes us productive, as well as opening many opportunities for growth, because we learn by doing" Elisa, eighth grade student.
After survival, communication is the most basic and vital of all needs, there are tools that help us find and enhance the skills necessary to promote opportunities for economic, social and personal development through quality education , this should reflect the importance of strategically communicating not only the results obtained from the tasks and school assignments but rather that the students are immersed in the productive work, in the world of communications.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are one of the examples that better illustrate the new methodological changes for learning by competences, these evolve and go from being an object of learning independently to being part of the curricular objectives as a learning facilitator tool. In this way, it is intended to achieve the productive application of ICT with the introduction of Learning and Knowledge Technologies (TAC), focusing on innovation and continuous improvement in the processes of learning, evaluation and organization.
In Amún Shéa, the implementation of interest clubs enhances the abilities of students in various areas and the communications club is the tool that allows the management and involvement of Information Technologies (ICT) in the learning process. Teachers fulfill the role of providing and providing tools that allow them to manage knowledge to strengthen their skills and life skills and regardless of what they want to do in the future, communication is essential in all areas. The students demonstrate through the Club the potential to create, manage, organize and translate their ideas, which later become content in the new virtual communities.
Amún Shéa communications club is responsible for the production of advertising material for social networks, promotion of new learning techniques through the use of audiovisual material, short films, infographics and internal communication content for the flow of information.
Strategic communication in education is about an educational revolution that fulfills the objectives of special attention that provide students with the relevant learning spaces for their integral development. The communicational tools brought to education can be converted for Amún Shéa into the catapult of good actions, through campaigns that provide educational contents of the different ways of transmitting knowledge in virtual communities, facilitating the exchange of information by converting young people in change managers using ICT by the TAC, all this incorporated in the Personal Learning Environment (PLE), which characterizes Amún Shéa's learning process.
Amún Shéa seeks that the use of communication technologies goes beyond the domain of a series of computer tools, it is intended that students acquire the skills to create photographic material, informative infographics, documentaries, short films, coverage of events, reports that give to know research and trials.
Verenice, eighth grade student, "Being in the Communications Club is an opportunity in which I learn and experience new things, with which I gradually open the doors of knowledge, for this 2019 I have many expectations, I want to focus on the editing of videos, photography and publicity material, with the aim of acquiring diverse alternatives that promote the interaction of knowledge ".
"The Club is a very important learning space, not only is it the opportunity to use tools that help us boost communication, it also contributes to the formation of values such as unity, patience, teamwork and love for what is done. , in the club I found an opportunity for my future", says Lenin, a ninth grade student.
Students who participate in the club have a broad vision of their aspirations for the future and are aware of the importance of using communication tools for the success of their life projects. This is what Veronica, an eighth grade student, says: "It has been an enriching experience that helps me expand my knowledge and encourages me to actively participate in the learning process of different forms of expression and even better knowing how to apply the right way technology in learning ".
Providing tools to the Amún Shéa Communications Club is one of our main objectives, we are a dreamy and visionary team that aspires to build an equipped space where students have the resources and tools such as cameras, microphones, computers for editing, lighting equipment, audio and video production, as well as having Software according to the needs.
Thank you for contributing to the development of the communities, with your contribution to open learning spaces in order to promote the economic and social development of families in the north of Morazán through education.
Phonological awareness is the ability to identify the sounds that make up words, children learn to decode messages and making use of sounds becomes easier, favoring the learning of reading and writing.
Amún Shéa seeks to strengthen the different areas of language, recognizing the importance of expressing feelings, thoughts, emotions and knowledge as the key tool to achieve autonomy and each student is the manager of their learning process.
As a complement to the learning methodology, students have the opportunity to participate in the spaces that different organizations and companies open in favor of education in El Salvador. For the strengthening of reading and writing, our students participated in the first poetry contest, organized nationally by the Cooperativa de Cooperativa de Conservación Magisterial Vicentina (BANCOVI), where two students were selected who, at a national level, demonstrated their love for the art of poetry.
Andrew (11 years old) fifth grade student, shares his experience as a finalist in the children's category: "I was happy for the opportunity to participate in the poetry contest, I realized that I have a lot of potential and although I felt nervous because it was a contest at a national level, what motivated me was to demonstrate that learning is not only in a classroom but through experiences ".
Alondra (17 years old) high school student, winner of the first place of the contest "At first I did not want to participate, but the support of my mother and my teacher motivated me to compete, the contest allowed me to write three poems in honor of my grandfather who died Five years ago, in the process I learned not to give up and to trust that with the help of God I can achieve all my dreams".
The success achieved through education is the key that defines Amún Shéa and the constant search for the development of the department of Morazán, will only be achieved with the involvement of all the sectors involved to build a country that leaves behind the violence that is so damaging cause and change for a country of opportunities for children and young people
We can build quality education in different forms of artistic expression and we are committed to finding the tools to do so. We appreciate your interest and contribution for the education of the children and young people of Morazán.
Education is relevant insofar as it leaves the student equipped for the full productive and social participation within their environment, prepared to innovate that environment and motivated to go beyond it's horizons. There is a need to define the objective of education, in that if it is to form good students or to improve productivity and the quality of life.
We maintain that academic performance is important only in its application to the environment and as a support for efficient and pertinent technical training. The debate regarding how to improve the low academic grades on standardized tests makes sense only insofar as these can improve the student's work and social skills.
The objective of the twelve years of basic education should be to train with personal and technical skills for job placement, self-employment or specialization with higher education. And the educational offer must respond to the conditions of real opportunities present in the student's environment.
For the environment of the north of Morazán, the labor insertion of a technical baccalauréat has three possibilities: to strengthen the installed capacity of the productive associations, to achieve one of the limited positions in the tourist industry, or self-employment. The current shortage of jobs in trade, manufacturing and processing in the environment leads us to establish a priority in technical training for self-employment.
We greatly appreciate your support for improving the quality of education for Salvadoran youth.
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Quality education signifies academic and technical formation relevant to the students environment. For our students in Amún Shéa, the environment is rural with limited basic services, very little demand for labor and little production beyond traditional subsistence agriculture. Relevant education means matching the local potential resources and opportunities with a learning program to help prepare young people with the skills needed to take advantage of those opportunities and potentials.
We have incorporated a new technical vocational high school course in our 2018 program at Amún Shéa, within this visión of relevant education. This technical vocational course is Ag-Business, still within the pilot stage of development. Fifteen high schools in El Salvador are implementing this course as a pilot: fourteen public schools and Amún Shéa.
An added feature of this new program is that it goes beyond technical training and includes creative thinking, business planning, personal leadership, accounting and other important personal skills needed for entrepreneurship. We are very happy to form part of the pilot phase of this new program, as it fits very well to what we have been developing on our own.
We greatly appreciate your support for quality education in Morazán. Thank you
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Fun and games are actually techniques and applications for Problem Based Learning (PBL). The 2018 school year just began at Amún Shéa Center for Integrated Development and we are back with new techniques to deepen our PBL program. Our teachers just went through an intensive training course and we begin the year with a focus on “The Production and Implementation of Creative Ideas”.
Personal leadership (because before leading others we must learn to guide ourselves), creative communication and scientific experimentation are the key components to be introduced and developed as fundamental to this focus.
To fully implement this year’s focus, we have organized our PBL program into three main areas: Physics, Biology, and Art and Communication. This will actually mean much less “classroom time” and much more experimentation. The greenhouses, fish growing tanks, vegetable garden, laboratory and other installations increasingly become our classrooms.
Innovative and relevant education towards building a hub of development in Morazán is our goal. This is only possible with your financial help, as we are working in one of the economically depressed areas in El Salvador. Please share this with family and friends. We greatly appreciate your support for this project. A special thank you to those with recurring monthly donations, something we can count on and look forward to receiving.
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