It was a great experience
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| Miss Lowry and her Shaping Teachers in Peru |
Sponsored
by the United States Embassy in Peru. From July 22 to July 27 all English
Teachers selected by United States Embassy and Ministry of Education met to attend
Face to Face component of the 2011
Shaping the Way We Teach English: Best Practices for English Language
Instructors, held in Lima. Attending
Virtual Aula Instructional way and Face to Face, participants could see
many ways to improve their English teaching skills.
This
Program is Developed by University of Oregon in the USA. It was a great
experience work with Ms Erin Lowry the main instructor. These days, through Face to Face component, She
drives us to Exchange many teaching experiences around the World. The aim is
improve English teachers practices in different cognitive and language context.
Studying new teaching fundations in theory and practice, this workshop brough
for us new concepts about when, what and how to assess, motivation, reflective teaching
English as ESL/EFL to beginners, secondary, young, adult learners, etc, etc.
Participants
from different places in Peru and USA meet in Lima. They arrive from Baltimore(Ms
Erin Lowry-Trainer), Tacna(Christian Miguel Navarro), Moquegua(Marisol Mamani),
Puno (Mario Ramos), Cuzco (Juan C. Mamani, Roxana Mamani, Sandra Lourdes Diaz),
Arequipa(Roxana Mercado, Fiorela Alana Cevantes, Arabella Bridget Mena), Huaraz
(Shirley Marilia Torres, Patricia Milagros Huaman, Amelia Salvador), Chimbote(Juan
C. Ausejo), Chiclayo(Santa Teonila Requejo), Chota(Manuel Malhaber), Iquitos(Elisa
Gonzales, Edgar Guzman), Yungay(Ever
Romero), Trujillo(Maruzzela Beltrán, Piero Iván Moreno), Bagua(Johanna Alayo), Lima(Gladys
Machado, Guiliana Fatima Di Natale)
We
know that this excellent course help us to improve reflectively the new
teaching/learning strategies in the classroom. We hope this kind of up date
meetings could be more frequently. In Peru’s provinces teachers need much more
assistance of expert tutors, instructors
and pedagogic trainers in ESL/EFL.
Finally we are grateful to USA Embassy in Lima. Our congratulations to Mrs. Marcela Raffo, Mr. Arturo Field and Mr. David Fay.
See
you next year.
