CAB´s English Knowledge Network.
The 17th of october our network had a the second meeting. We started at about 10:00 am according to the schedule and we have 4 topics to discuss; first of all we talked about the good news that the bosses aproved our meetings and that we have the time every two weeks. In the second place we talked about the questions that we were going to work in our meetings and then came up some questions: the number one is Why the Sena`s students don`t learn english as quickly as students from other institutions? the other question is; if the Sena has a good curriculum from the Cambridge why don`t we use that as a resourse in our face to face courses?. The third topic was how to work in the organization of our meetings and how to build up a paper to give to the administration ?
After we made interviews with other teachers and with students we find out that one of the problems is because we don`t have unified program for teaching english. Also we find out that SENA has a deal with Cambridge and they have a good english program. So the idea is to work in that program and adapt it to our centre. So our proposal for the administration is based on the development of the teaching methods to improve the the english learning process, and we are going to use our network for sharing information and build up documents like the proposal, by the way we are already working in the proposal using google docs also we have a whatsapp group to arrange the meetings and to have a quick contact with the other members of the group
The next meeting is going to be the first week of November because I´ll be in Medellin the last week of october. I hope by that time we already have the document for the administration ready with the ideas for 2016. So we can start working on the curriculum development.
Here´s the administrative building of my place of work.
CENTRO AGROPECUARIO DE BUGA - VALLE- COLOMBIA
Hi Carlos,
ResponderEliminarGood to know that your superior approved your proposal and realized there was a real need for such network. Indeed if SENA has some agreements with Cambridge, why not start using the resources. As you clearly mentioned, it is important to ADAPT these resources to the local needs in your center and make decisions in collaboration with your colleagues.
I'm pleased to see that you are already discussing an agenda for 2016. Let's hope for the best !
Please keep posting the project updates in your blog until Sunday and of course later on as well for your portfolio.
Best,
David