SHARE
An
Electronic Magazine by Omar Villarreal and Marina Kirac (c)
Year
2
Number 37
September 17th
2000
Thousands
of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will
not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being
SHARED.
________________________________________________________
Dear
SHARERS,
A
great teacher has left us and in a way we are all a little bit poorer today
because he is not among us any longer. A beloved and respected teacher died last
week : George Lewis. He was no doubt a great lecturer, simple and
unconceited, but most of all he was the kind of "teacher" and "human being"
most of us would like to be remembered as.
He
was a man deeply committed to the profession and as a helmsman for FAAPI,
he managed to take the ship to safe harbour in one of the darkest hours of
the Federation, but most of all, he did that humbly and unpretentiously.
Many
things could be said about him now but we are sure he would not, as the true and
ultimate gentleman he was. like to hear that much. As a tribute to him and to
all the true teachers like him, we wanted to dedicate these simple lines to
his
loving
memory.
In
SHARE 35
1.-
The moral of the story.
2.-
Workshops by Vic Richardson in Buenos Aires.
3.- Social
Values Seminar in Catamarca.
4.- Love
Quotes from the Movies.
5.-
"T.S.Eliot" announces Dave Allan.
6.-
Special Interest Groups in Rosario
7.-
Wise Crackers for Smart Cookies.
8.-
Buenos Aires Players announce new
production
9.-
Harán Cambios en los Institutos Terciarios.
10.-Licenciaturas
: A Waste of Time ?
11-
Academic Activities for Litoral.
12-
Evenings of Theatre.
13-
Awful Authors.
14-
Jeremy Harmer in Tucumán.
15-
An Invitation from Macmillan Heinemann
ELT.
16-
Business English Teaching Certificate.
17- Cambridge
University Press Coming Events.
18-
Cómo Aprenden los Adultos.
19-
Good News from Longman.
20.-New
Electronic Magazine : RT News
(1)
THE MORAL OF THE STORY
Our dear
friend and SHARER, Annie Altamirano ,annie@infovia.com.ar, from
Punta Alta,
Province of Buenos Aires sends us this story :
The teacher gave her fifth-grade
class an assignment: Get their parents to tell them a story
with a moral in it.
Next day, Kathy
said, "My father's a farmer,
and we have a lot of egg-laying hens. One time we were
taking eggs to market in a box on the front seat of the
truck, when we hit a bump and a lot of them broke and made a
mess."
"So, what's the moral of the
story," asked the teacher.
"Don't put all your eggs in one
basket."
Another child, Lucy, told her
story. "Our family are farmers
too. But we raise chickens
for the meat market. We had 16 eggs one time, but when
they hatched, we only got 10 live
chicks.
And the moral to this story
is: "don't count your
chickens until they hatch."
"That was fine," said the
teacher.
"Now, Johnny, do you have a story
too?"
"Yes, ma'am. My daddy told me about
my Aunt Karen. She was a flight engineer in Desert
Storm in Iraq and her plane got hit. She had to bail
out over enemy territory. All she had was a bottle of
whiskey, a machine gun and a machete. She
drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn't
break.
Then she landed in the middle of
100 enemy troops. She killed 70 with the machine gun
until she ran out of bullets. She hacked 20 more with the machete
until the blade broke. And she killed the last 10 with her
bare hands."
"Good heavens!" exclaimed the
horrified teacher. "What kind of moral did your daddy tell you was
in this terrible story?"
"Never get near Aunt Karen
when she's been drinking."
(2) WORKSHOPS BY VIC RICHARDSON IN
BUENOS AIRES
A dear SHARER, Virginia Lombardi
Director of Studies at ILC. Learning Centre Institute invites all SHARERS
to two workshops to be conducted by
Vic Richardson
Workshop 1
: Energising and
motivating students
Highly practical, enjoyable, 'heads out of books' activities which
can help charge batteries and help make learning engaging and enjoyable.
Workshop 2 : Teaching Speaking
A practical and experiential workshop
to explore different procedures to help our students improve their
fluency and more accurately
Monday, 18th: 9:00 to 12:00 Workshops 1 & 2
Venue: Universidad del Salvador
Enrolment: USAL: 4371-8346
Contact: Dr Hector Valencia
Monday, 18th: 6:00 to 9:00
p.m. Workshops 1 & 2
Tuesday, 19th: UCA-9:00 to 12:00
Venue: UCA- Puerto Madero-
Vic
Richardson is Director of Education for Embassy CES UK,
and Director of the International Teacher Training Institute in the UK and the
USA. He is Joint Chief Assessor for the University of Cambridge CELTA. He
has just published Clockwise Pre-Intermediate (OUP) with Bruce McGowen.
(3) SOCIAL VALUES SEMINAR IN
CATAMARCA
Our very dear friend from Catamarca,
Miriam Fernandez,writes to us to announce two teacher-friendly workshops on the
whys and hows of working with values in the English language classroom :
Social Values in the Classroom Friday 20 October 6:00 to 9:00
pm
Music and Songs for Social Values Saturday 21 October 9:00 to 12:00 am
Ricardo
Sampedro, former OUP ELT manager and a graduate translator wil be
workshop leader in these two workshops you cannot afford to
miss. The events are organized by Departamento de Inglés de la UNCA,
Asociación Cooperadora del Laboratorio de Idiomas, Asociación Catamarqueña de
Profesores de Inglés and Education for a Change.
Venue : Facultad de
Humanidades UNCA- Avda Belgrano 300 Catamarca
Fees : $8 until
September 30th, $ 10 until October 15th and $12 until October 20th Registration
: Facultad de Humanidades (Mondays through Fridays from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m) Prof.
Miriam Fernandez or TPN Carolina
Ferraresi . Mail :
mirfer@cedeconet.com.ar
Telephone : 433088 - 430277- 424362
(4) LOVE QUOTES FROM THE MOVIES
Our dear SHARER from
Las Palmas, Córdoba, Christian Duarte Varela sends
us a most romantic
message with love quotes taken from the movies.
Thank Chris for your
contribution !
"I guarantee it won't be easy.
I
guarantee that at one point or another
one of us is going to want to leave.
But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine
I am going to
regret it for the rest of my life.
Because I know in my heart
You are the only one for me.
"
The Runaway Bride
"The only wrong thing would be
To deny what your heart truly
feels."
The Mask of Zorro
" How come we don't always know when love begins,
But we
always know when it ends ? "
L.A. Story
"The only feeling of real loss
Is when you love someone
More than you love yourself."
Goodwill Hunting
"You cannot find true love where it does not truly exist
And
you cannot hide it where it truly does."
Kissing a Fool
"When you realise you want to spend
The rest of you life with
somebody,
You want the rest of your life
To start as soon as
possible."
When Harry met Sally
"You
will see a lot of things, but they will mean nothing to you
If you lose
sight of the thing you love."
At First
Sight
"When you love someone,
And you love them with your
heart,
It never disappears
When you're apart.
And when you love
someone
And you've done all you can do,
You set them free,
And if
that love was true ....
When you love someone
It will all come back to
you."
Forget Paris
"Will you love me for the rest of my life ?
No,
I'll love
you for the rest of mine."
Phenomenon
I would rather have had one breath of her hair,
One kiss from her mouth,
One touch of her hand,
Than eternity
without it. One !!
City of
Angels
I love you without knowing how, why ....
Or even from
where ....
Patch Adams
(5) "T.S.ELIOT" ANNOUNCES DAVE
ALLAN
Our very dear SHARER, Claudia Ferradás Moi , Co-Director of T.S. Eliot
Bilingual Studies, writes to us to announce a series of
seminars by ELT specialist, Dave Allan. Allan is well known and well
loved in our country which he started visiting, (if we are not mistaken) as from
the 2nd FAAPI Convention back in the 70´s in Tucumán .
Wednesday, September 20, 9:00 - 11.15
a.m.
Testing
Listening Skills
T.S.Eliot
Bilingual
Studies - Alem
1380 - Banfield - Pcia Buenos
Aires
Tel.
/ fax: 011 - 4202 - 3672
Fee:
$15 . S.E.A. members: $10
Saturday, September
23, 8.45 a.m. to 12.45
p.m
Teacher
Self-Development: becoming the best teacher I can be
Testing Listening
Skills in ELT: a neglected but important
area.”
Postgraduate
Centre Seminar - Rosario
Venue: St. Bartholomew's Hall
Tucumán 1257 -
Rosario
Registrations: Post-Graduate Centre Córdoba
836 - Rosario
Fees: $ 15 - $ 10 (P.G.C. members and
students)
Monday, September 25, 9.00 a.m. –12
noon
Testing
Listening Skills
ESSARP
(English Schools Scholastic Association of the River
Plate)
Esmeralda
672 7º piso - City of Buenos Aires
Tel: (011)
4322-2480
(6) SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS IN
ROSARIO
Our very dear friend, Nora Séculi, President of APrIR (Asociación de
Profesores de Inglés de Rosario) writes to us to announce the updated calendar
for their Special Interest Groups which have been meeting with well deserved
success:
Methodology SIG
Coordinators:
Graciela Castelli and Giselle Carné -
Meetings
: once a month, on Tuesdays from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Language SIG
Coordinators:
Magdalena P. de Botto and Silvia Arberas -
Meetings:
once a month, on Fridays from 4:15 to 6:15 p.m. -
ESP SIG
Coordinators
: Graciela R. de Calatroni and Elsa D. de Galaretto.
Meetings :
once a month, on Saturdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
APrIR
SIGS Liaison Officer: Beatriz Pesado Castro de Garófalo .
To join the
group of your
choice, please contact Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Rosario at APrIR
offices : Buenos Aires 1127 (PB"A") Telephone : (0341) 4400624 - e mail : aprir@go.com
(7) WISE CRACKERS FOR SMART COOKIES
A very dear
friend Andrea Coviella sends us these wisecrackers for the weekend
:
IT ISN'T WHETHER YOU WIN OR LOSE but how you place the blame
CRIME
WOULDN'T PAY if the Government ran it
SILENCE IS GOLDEN so shut up and
listen
PEOPLE
WILL BELIEVE ANYTHING if you whisper it
BEWARE OF THOSE WHO SAY THEY´RE ON YOUR SIDE so is
appendicitis
DON´T RIDICULE YOUR EMPLOYEES
if they were perfect you'd be working for them
ALL WORK AND
NO pay makes a hosewife
A FRIEND IN NEED is a friend to
avoid
WHEN CHOOSING BETWEEN TWO EVILS
pick the one you´ve never tried before
(8) BS AS PLAYERS ANNOUNCE NEW
PRODUCTION
Our dear friend Celia Zubiri writes
to us to announce the THE BS.AS. PLAYERS' forthcoming production. No doubt a play
not to be missed ! :
Lady
Windermere's Fan by Oscar
Wilde adapted an directed by
Celia Zubiri
Cast: Edward Jarvis - Willy Ruano -
Sebastián Bottazzini
Alejandra
Allende - Maite Nuñez - María Ana Luchetti
Opening Night: September, Friday
29th at 7PM - Teatro de La Comedia,
Rodríguez Peña 1074- Tel:
011-4812-5307 / 4814-5455.
Performances: Fridays 7:00 pm
(during October and November)
Tickets : $10 - For groups of ten
people or more, $8-
(9) HARAN CAMBIOS EN LOS INSTITUTOS TERCIARIOS
The following is a quote from an article published in "La
Nación" of September 8th 2000. We thought it would be of interest to all SHARERS
in Argentina :
El Gobierno anunció que pondrá en marcha un
plan para que los institutos de formación docente pasen
a tener una organización similar a la de las universidades.
Eso implicara, a partir del consenso
con las jurisdicciones provinciales y los
propios institutos, la creación de un sistema de
cogobierno, con la participación de
profesores y estudiantes. La propuesta, prevé
desarrollar un proceso de autonomía en la gestión
y selección de los planes de estudios.
"Los
institutos docentes fueron
siempre una especie de
laboratorios, en los que
se ponían a prueba experiencias pedagógicas y se
renovaba la
educación. Eso, lamentablemente, se perdió y es lo que
ahora
intentamos recuperar", explico Edith Litwin,
coordinadora del Programa
Nacional de Formación Docente,
quien procura rescatar lo mejor de
las
tradiciones pedagógicas argentinas, surgidas en la etapa de la
organización
del país con la creación de la primera escuela normal, fundada
en Paraná en
1869.
En la Argentina hay
actualmente 1102 institutos de formación docente, a los que se
suman 112 de formación artística. De los primeros, 581 son
estatales y 521 privados. Entre todos reúnen una
matricula de 239.814 alumnos (228.217 en los institutos de
educación común y 11.597 en los de enseñanza artística),
de los cuales el 70% cursa en los
establecimientos estatales.
La propuesta se complementa con un proyecto
de ley remitido al Congreso, por el cual se permitirá
a los egresados de los institutos docentes acreditar sus
estudios en las universidades para que
puedan incorporarse a las carreras de grado y de
Posgrado.
El subsecretario de Educación Básica, Gustavo Iaies advirtió que la
nueva organización de la formación docente permitirá
orientar mejor la matricula, dado que hoy el 60%
de los estudiantes del magisterio se
inscribe en la educación inicial y en los dos
primeros ciclos de la Educación General
Básica (de primero a sexto grado), "donde el sistema menos los
necesita".
Se impulsara, por ello, la formación de nuevos
profesores para el secundario. "Actualmente, el 10% de los docentes
que dictan clases en la enseñanza media no posee el titulo de
profesor", comento Iaies al sostener la necesidad de fortalecer la
capacitación.
(10) LICENCIATURAS : A WASTE OF TIME ?
A dear and active SHARER from
Zárate, Mónica Mourrut de Beauverger, sends us this article published in the
"Buenos Aires Herald" on August 29th 2000, which we reproduce verbatim :
THIS LAW SEGREGATED TEACHERS
"In a recent interview the
Minister of Education, Juan José LLach told The Herald that those teachers who
are studying a Licenciatura ( an articulation degree which promises to upgrade
teachers´tertiary degrees) were losing their time, because the law which he
submitted to Congress- that entails the reform of
Article 39- will as he says
"eventually be passed" .
Aricle 39 of the Higher Education
Law was passed on July 21st, 1995 (Law nunber 24,521). Ever since that day,
graduates from Teaching Training
Colleges
have been struggling to obtain
the reform of this law that states : "To have access to poastgraduate training a
University degree is required". This law - which Llach referred to as one
that "segregated teachers" - also ceased to eanable tertiary graduates toteach
beyond what used to be the third year of the old secondary system unless they
also have a University degree.
Although we can´t back the
concept that any time spent on studying is "lost time", we know that the
majority of EFL teachers are undergoing their studies for merely bureaucratic
purposes, Silvina Gvirtz, Head of the Escuela de Educación of the Universidad de
San Andrés, believes that many private universities took advantange of an
unfortunate situation for teachers. "
The article then goes on to
explain the scheme that Universidad de San Andrés is currently offering to
teachers, as they say " while they wait for Llach´s law to pass Congress". It
basically consists of an intermediate post-graduate degree programme at
university level ( that all 4
year tertiary degree holders can join) of nine subjects and only one
integrated exam, after which teachers can go on to
attend five more subjects and
write their thesis to obtain the Masters degree.
(11) ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES FOR LITORAL
Our very dear friend Susana Berutti from Advice Bookshop in Santa Fé
sends us their Calendar with Academic events which different institutions
have organized for the Santa Fé and Entre Ríos area. For more information
on these events, please contact Advice Bookshop advicebs@ssdfe.com.ar or 0342-4533392
26 September 2000 - 6:00 p.m.to
9:00 p.m
Facultad de Ingeniería Química -
Santa Fé
Mixed Ability Teaching:
transforming failure to success
There is no failure , only a cry
for help. How can we make the most of diversity in the EFL class
?
Speaker: Luke
Prodromou
Admission
FREE
27 September 2000- 10:00
a.m.
Asociación Argentina de Cultura
Inglesa de Paraná
Teaching the Exam Class: Testing or
Teaching?
All teachers currently
teaching Cambridge Examination classes especially
invited
Speaker: Luke
Prodromou
Teacher and teacher trainer with
the British Council in Greece, author of several books, his most recent
textbooks include "FCE Star" and "Rising Star" (Macmillan Heinemann
ELT)
Admission FREE -
Registration:
ESSENTIAL
3 October 2000 - 5.30 to 8.30
p.m.
Facultad de Ingeniería Química -
Santa Fé
Grammar and Learner
Development
This talk will reveal that
teaching grammar is closely linked with learner development and is therefore an
essential component of a communicative
approach.
Project Work in
ELT
A practical means of combining
effective language learning with the educational development of the
pupil.
Speaker : Tom
Hutchinson
Associate Director of the Institute
for English Language Education at Lancaster University. Author of "Project
English", Hotline, Lifelines, , and the most recent
Project.
9 - 10 November 2000 -
San Justo - Santa Fé
1ras. Jornadas de
Educación
Disertantes
invitados:
Dra. Edith Litwin (UBA),
Mag. Mariana Maggio
(UBA)
Prof. Susana Celman (UNER),
Prof. Ma. Teresa González
Cuberes
Prof. Gloria Edelstein (UNC), Prof. Daniel Fernández
(UNL)
Equipo de Investigación Marina
Vilte (CETERA) y del IRICE
(Rosario)
Temas:
Investigaciones educativas
realizadas desde cualquier campo
disciplinar.
Las prácticas docentes como objeto
de la investigación educativa.
La tecnología educativa en el marco
de la nueva agenda de la didáctica.
Plazo presentación de trabajos:
30 de septiembre de
2000
Plazo inscripción:
30 de octubre de
2000
Organizan:
Los Departamentos de Capacitación y
Departamento de Investigación del Instituto Superior de Profesorado Nº 20 y de
la Escuela Normal Superior
Nº 31.
(12) EVENINGS OF THEATRE
Our dear SHARER Albert Canil of THe
Suburban Players invites all SHARERS to their :
VARIETY SHOW
a presentation convened by Isabella
Entwistle which includes song and dance, scenes and scketches, poetry and play
reading by the following performers: Anne Henrym Rosemary Morton, Susan
Hillyard, Nick Martin, Isabella Entwistle
and
Albert Canil
Date : September 22nd - 9:00
p.m.
Venue : "The Playhouse" - Moreno 80
- San Isidro
Tickets : $10 - Reservations
: 4784-8275 or 4725-0841
(13) AWFUL AUTHORS
A very dear
SHARER Adriana M. Benvenuto who is currently studying towards her Masters degree
at Soka
University of America,
adrianabenvenuto@hotmail.com sends us this list of "Awful
Authors and their Works" which she calls "a rather childish and thoroughly
enjoyable form of punning" :
The Music of
Handel by Aaron G.
String
Religion
by Abel
Lever
Big White Bird
by Albert
Ross
Sorry! by Anna
Poloji
The Solitary Beast
by Annie
Malone
The Singer
by Barry
Tone
The Blessing
by Benny
Dixon
The Tightrope Walker
by Betty
Falls
Urban Areas
by Bill
Tupp
English Breakfast
by Chris P. Bacon and Ann
Negg
That's
Life
by Cilla Vee
The Lion-Tamer
by Claud
Face
The Poker Player
by Delia
Cards
Prehistoric Reptiles
by Dinah Soar and Terry
Dactyl
The Building
by Eddy
Fiss
Through the Open Window
by Eileen
Doubt
The Visitor
by Enoch
Zatador
The Broken Window
by Eva
Brick
The End Of The Week
by Gladys
Friday
Under Arrest
by Hank
Uft
Make Your Home Secure
by Havelock
Smith
The Tudor Banquet
by Henrietta
Knox
Lady Godiva
by Honor
Whitesteed
Frankenstein Meets Dracula
by Horace
Tory
King Kong
by Hugh
Jape
I'll Follow
by Hugo
First
Reminiscence
by Ira
Member
Singing In The Rain
by Ivor
MacIntosh
The Commuter
by Jocelyn
Train
Make 'em Laugh
by Joe
King
At The Eleventh Hour
by Justin
Time
Fried Chicken
by Ken
Tucky
Slimming
by Lena
Boddy
Keeping The Peace
by Lorne
Order
Quoting Hamlet
by Maureen Soroth, Annie
Nanga
Having Fun
by Meryl
Lee
The Gardener
by Moses
Lawn
(14) JEREMY HARMER IN
TUCUMAN
Our dear friend and SHARER , Adriana Barrionuevo
, Head of the English
Department at Escuela Normal en Lenguas Vivas "J.
B. Alberdi" invites all
SHARERS to a Seminar by
renowned author Jeremy Harmer to take place next
next Tuesday 19th September from 9:00 am to 6:30 pm
at Hotel del Jardín in San Miguel de Tucumán. A fee of $ 20 will be
charged.
Registration : at Escuela Normal:
telephone : 0381 - 4220607 or 4212873 (vice-dirección) - E-mail: adribarrionuevo@hotmail.com
(15) AN INVITATION FROM MACMILLAN
HEIMNEMANN
Our dear friends at Macmillan
Heinemann ELT would like to invite all SHARERS to a Dunn and Stapley Seminar in Buenos Aires . This most
entertaining duo of
native speakers will surely delight
the audience with those words and phrases non-native speakers often find so
difficult to cope with. There will also be a special
session with "Songs and
Stories my mother never taught me" . The event
will take place next Saturday 23rd 2000 from 9:00 to
13:00 hours at Conde 1990
Belgrano
and will include a presentation of the New Wonderland Series and Wonderful
World Series by Macmillan Heinemann
ELT.
The event is free of charge but
registration is essesntial. Please contact
:
Macmillan Heinemann ELT (011)
4711-5111 consultants@machelt.com.ar
or Pierre
Stapley (0341)
4249122 - stapley@arnet.com.ar
(16) BUSINESS ENGLISH TEACHING CERTIFICATE COURSE
A dear SHARER Alejandra Jorge, Director of Studies of CAIT writes to
us :
Dear Omar and Marina
Congratulations on the organization of the Necochea Congress !
Following the successful presentation of the FBTE course (Foundation
Certificate for Teachers of Business English) at the IAM in Mendoza, we are now
presenting
a shorter version for busy teachers. So here it is, to share with all
the other Business English SHARERS...
Foundation Certificate for Teachers of Business
English (FTBE)
A New shorter Course for Busy Experienced Teeachers : 24
contact hours plus
16 Distance hours :
From 22 September through 10 November - Fridays
6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Cost : three $ 65 installments - reservation of
vacancy : $ 40
The course is specifically designed to expand the repertoire of
classroom activities and techniques and help build up a substantial file of
usable and expandable Business English material.
Lecturers: ( Approved trainers by the LCCIEB)
Ms. Alejandra Mercedes Jorge
Ms. Adriana Ruiz de
Arcaute
Please Contct :
4311-8544 or 4314-2583 e-mail cait@ciudad.com.ar
(17) CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS COMING
EVENTS
Our dear friends
from Cambridge University Press announce the following presentations TEACHING CHILDREN VS. TEACHING ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS to be delivered by prestigious lecturer Dr Herbert
Puchta.
MENDOZA
Monday
September 18th, from 5 pm to 8.30 pm
Instituto
Cultural de Mendoza - Necochea 552, Ciudad Mendoza
Enrolment: 0261
4257571 / 4257355
CÓRDOBA
Tuesday
September 19th, from 5 pm to 8.30 pm
Asociación
Argentina de Cultura Británica - Hipólito Yrigoyen 496, Córdoba
Enrolment: 0351
4691000 / 4681995
ROSARIO
Wednesday
September 20th, from 5 pm to 8 pm.
Colegio La
Salle - Mendoza 444,
Rosario
Enrolment 0341 4498892 / 4494993 ; fax: 4400859 ;
e-mail: aprir@go.com ; direcultura@infovia.com.ar
MAR DEL PLATA
Monday
September 25th, from 5:00 pm to 8.30 pm
Hilet
College - Córdoba 3197, Mar del
Plata
Enrolment:
Bookshop: 0223 4736567
BAHIA BLANCA
Tuesday
September 26th, from 5:00 pm to 8.30 pm
Biblioteca
Bernardino Rivadavia - Av. Colón 31, Bahía Blanca
Enrolment:
0291 4521493; fax: 4553127; e-mail: library@abci.com.ar Asociación Bahiense de
Cultura Inglesa
Other CUP
Talks and Book Presentations in October 2000 :
21/10/00 11-12.30
UNIVERSIDAD DEL MUSEO SOCIAL ARGENTINO
Authentic Assessment in
Effective Foreign Language Education
Paula Gelemur, Senior
Educational Representative
21/10/00 14.30 –15.10
UNIVERSIDAD DEL MUSEO SOCIAL ARGENTINO Book Presentation :
Objective First Certificate
Paula Gelemur, Senior
Educational Representative
(18) COMO APRENDEN LOS ADULTOS
The
following is an excerpt of the article published in the Spanish journal
"Visión Educativa" Issue 7 by Beatriz Candelero López :
"A fines de
los años 50, los educadores europeos acuñaron el termino "Androgogía"
, derivado
de la palabra griega Anere=Adulto y Agrocus= Conductor de la
enseñanza, para determinar el estudio y aplicación de la educación de
los adultos,
diferenciándose de la "Pedagogía", derivado del griego Paidos=Niños
y Agein=Guiar, que se concibe como el arte de educar a los niños.
Teniendo
como fundamento lo anterior, es necesario tomar en cuenta al diseñar
programas de aprendizaje destinados para adultos, sus necesidades y
expectativas,
en virtud de que no podemos educar al adulto usando las mismas
técnicas que utilizamos con los niños.
El primer
lugar, es importante reconocer que los adultos poseen experiencias
(como punto de partida para la incorporación de nuevos conocimientos),
información, habilidades y valores que han venido adquiriendo
y desarrollando en su vida cotidiana. Aunado a lo anterior, es imprescindible
conducir el proceso educativo, a través de una Metodología predominantemente
activa y colectiva, el la cual prevalezcan momentos de discusión
sobre problemas generados a partir de la interacción del adulto con objetos,
hechos y personas.
Una de las
ultimas metodologías aplicadas en Educación para Adultos bajo este enfoque
y desarrollada a través de las asesorías, consiste en aplicar tres etapas
interrelacionadas una de otras.
Descubrimiento,
esta etapa se desarrolla al inicio de la sesión, consiste en hacer que
los adultos reflexionen y rescaten las experiencias y los conocimientos
que tienen sobre el tema de estudio a tratar en la sesión de asesoría.
Aprendizaje,
es la segunda etapa del proceso, consiste en que los adultos se remitan
al libro de texto y en particular al tema.
Aplicación,
es la última etapa y su desarrollo permite reiniciar nuevamente el proceso,
tratar de dar una aplicación práctica a todo lo aprendido, en la vida
diaria de los adultos.
Ahora bien,
siendo el propósito en el aprendizaje de los adultos la pertinencia
de los contenidos educativos; la destreza con que éstos se desarrollen
o se apliquen deben estar en razón directa con el tipo de actividades
que el adulto realiza y con las experiencias directas de su contexto
familiar, social, cultural y laboral; esto permite delinear situaciones
y secuencias didácticas significativas para los adultos; por lo que en la
enseñanza de éstos no existe un camino único y lineal para que los sujetos
aprendan, los caminos pueden no ser los mismos entre
los
diferentes
grupos de adultos según su contexto.
Por otro
lado, es primordial que el educador de los adultos conozca al sujeto que
asesora, comprendiendo el conjunto de variables que en situaciones
concretas inciden en el aprendizaje; por ejemplo: problemas de índole
familiar, desconfianza de su capacidad cognoscitiva, limitaciones socioculturales,
temor al ridículo, ritmo de aprendizaje lento, entre
otros.
En síntesis:
los asesores deben tomar en cuenta la vinculación entre intereses,
experiencias concretas y producción de saberes por parte del adulto, para
planear las actividades educativas considerando que cada adulto-educando tiene su propia
historia.
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(20) NEW ELECTRONIC MAGAZINE : RT
NEWS
Our dear friends and SHARERS, Jamie
Duncan and Laura Szmuch have just published issue Number 2 of their electronic
magazine RT News (after
Resourceful Teaching). This e-zine "A Magazine
on Neurolinguistic Programming in Education" is publish fortnighly and is
distributed free of charge to thos who
subscribe to
it. To do this, just send an e-mail to : rtnews@mail.abaconet.com.ar
The magazine contains tips,
articles, suggestions and news connected with NLP.
A most welcome contribution to our
ELT scene . Congratulations tor their editors, our very dear friends Jamie and
Laura !!
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Another
issue of SHARE draws to its end. Many, many thanks to all those beautiful
Teacher´s Day messages we received, to all those people that accompanied Omar on
his tours this week, to all of our more than 4000 SHARERS that week after week
keep the flame of SHARE burning. Again today
we would like to say goodbye with a short but moving message our dear
friend and
SHARER, Mechy Miguel sent to us :
Dear
Omar and Marina,
I really enjoy reading SHARE. I
felt for a while, like in classroom
again, I feel the dust of the lovely chalk in my hand, I see faces, waiting for
my next word, I hear the bell, I walk again through those
paths.
While a read SHARE, I just travel
in time, back to my clasrroom, back to that world which not even the best
writer, without a few days in a class, feeling the class, smelling the class,
could ever describe.
Thanks for
SHARE.
Mercedes
Miguel
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HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK !!!
Omar and Marina
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