PARAGUAY, red. Teachers, who participated in Project Porâve Paraguay developed throughout the current academic year 2014, will receive their certificates in the Vision Bank Auditorium Hall (Avda, Santa Teresa 3088 c/ Concejal Vargas) at the conclusion of the project.
One hundred twenty-six teachers who participated in Porâve Paraguay are from ten public schools targeted by the Central Department through an agreement signed by Foundation in Covenant, executor of the project in 2013, and the Ministry of Education and Culture developed a program based on continuing training in the areas of Reading/Writing and Personal Development of the teachers and administrators of the participating schools.
Within its’ program framework of responsibility, Visión Banco (Vision Bank), an entity committed to community development and training teachers as agents of transformation and change, sponsorsthe Graduate School Nº 5589 “Saint John the Baptist” and the Leadership and School Management” course for administrative teams developed during the first semester executed by Foundation in Covenant and with the recognition of the ISE (Superior Institute of Education).
Carmen Galeano Da Costa, director of Foundation in Covenant, and Pablo Dario Colmán, Manager of Sustainable Development of Vision Bank, presented participation certificates to the teachers and administrators from the ten-targeted schools participating in the Project.
Vision Bank and Foundation in Covenant promote training spaces for formation and training of teachers andpublic schools’administrative teams strengthening and generating educational proposals that respond to the needs and expectations of the teachers.
The experience of this program has been more than satisfactory, not only because of the interest in the workshops expressed by the participating teachers, but also for the application of the training received in the respective educational communities.
Concern
On July 31, 2013, Foundation in Covenant signed an agreement of cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Culture. In this agreement, Foundation in Covenant proposed to carry out a diagnosis of the conditions in the ten schools chosen by the MEC (Ministry of Education and Culture).
This diagnosis was centered on the task of the teacher. After signing the agreement, visits were made to the chosen schools, where interviews, questionnaires, workshops, formal and informal dialogue were carried out with directors, teachers, parents and students. With the data obtained from the diagnosis that was carried out, PORÃVE PARAGUAY was born, because we believe that a quality education is possible by making the training of teachers a priority.
The objectives are:
1. To train teachers in three main areas: Reading/Writing, Personal Development, and Management of school violence.
2. To offer training spaces to the school directors to accomplish better community management and to strengthen their leadership.
Foundation in Covenant is a non-profit civil institution created in 1991 by a group of independent professionals and businessmen attached to the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement that accomplish tasks in different areas of social life, and who felt they were called to collaborate in the transformation of the country through programs and educational projects, which through cultivating values, will have influence upon the dignity ofthe Paraguayan people.
Original: Spanish – Translation – Celina M. Garza, San Antonio, TX USA
Fundación en Alianza (Foundation in Covenant) in the virtual tents of Covenant Culture
