New School

Jun 7, 2017 | Uncategorized

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The Escuela Nueva Activa (New Active School) model is a methodology aimed at vulnerable children that seeks to reverse the logic of the conventional teacher-centered educational model to focus on the student. We then speak of a new pedagogical paradigm based on cooperative, personalized, participative and constructivist learning.

The program began in 1976 in rural areas, being extended in 1987 to urban areas, thanks to the support of the Inter-American Foundation FIA. Today, its sponsors include the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Its work logic seeks to connect with primary schools to advise them on the implementation of the Escuela Nueva Activa model. For this reason, Fundación Escuela Nueva takes on a role of support and technical assistance.

As a system, the program promotes comprehensive intervention, including a standardized curriculum, accounting management techniques, community involvement, and teacher training. Through all these components, principles, criteria and theoretical concepts of educational planning are applied, following a common thread that takes into account the reality of the school in which the program is implemented.

The pedagogy method uses student learning guides with interactive features that induce cooperative learning and the use of supportive media (learning corners, classroom instruments, classroom library, among others). The implementation process includes both the promotion of internships and teacher training workshops on different topics (initiation in Escuela Nueva, classroom transformation, learning guides, reading and writing, among others), monitoring and follow-up (classroom and micro-centre visits with teachers), provision and use of learning materials, and collection of information for monitoring and evaluation of the process.

Fundación Escuela Nueva is also strongly committed to forming a network of collaborators to promote a learning community. To this end, they organize “International Congresses of New Schools”, in order to connect partners to generate interactions and exchanges, systematize experiences and good practices, create publications and promote academic events.

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