All four teachers from the preschool #448 in Santa Ana, Cusco participated in our Innovative Pedagogy program this year. The school’s Principal, Yesica Sosa Carpio, certified our Innovative Pedagogy course in 2022 and then our Best Practices course in 2023, so she was more than able to accompany her teachers/colleagues on their Innovative Pedagogy journey. […]
We received an invitation from the Andean University of Cusco for a work meeting where we met with employers, graduates, professors and teachers from the same University. This meeting became interesting because we heard how the graduates expressed their feelings now that they are in the field of action and gave interesting details about how […]
Hello again you wonderful Alma supporters! Thank you for your patience and after thousands of emails, calls, and in-person demands, we proudly present our Alma Update newsletter hot off the press and in your inbox! In our last newsletter from March of this year, I mentioned how 2024 is the first year that Alma can […]
If you are reading this blog post, you probably know that Alma is following a digital learning strategy to train hundreds of rural teachers from isolated areas of the Cusco region. We offer university-accredited diplomas for pre-primary and primary school teachers. What probably is less familiar to you is that the platform that is making […]
I always get excited when following up on our projects’ impact. Whether we are exceeding expectations, identifying challenges to be overcome, or even in the rare case where everything is going exactly as planned, working to improve the quality and meaning of public education Is always fulfilling. However, no report or meeting can ever compare […]
Talking with the students of ESFM Juan Misael Saracho, we realized that the professional practices they do are not usually an easy task and that one of the main questions they ask themselves when facing this challenge, especially in the last years of training, is How am I going to teach? In order for students […]
Last June 6th, our country celebrated the day of the Bolivian teacher and I decided to investigate for the first time why this celebration is held. It turns out that the chosen date corresponds to the birth of Modesto Omiste Tinajeros, a native of Potosí who is considered the father of education in our country […]
This year is the first year that the Alma Foundation is working with students. They are university students who are training for five years to be teachers in Bolivian public schools at the Clara Parada Higher Teacher Training School in Pinto. In order to get to this point last year we did a lot of […]
This month we carried out diagnostic evaluations in our focused and control IIEE to see how we can improve our courses and thus continue strengthening the teaching capacities of all the teachers involved in our courses in our region. This evaluation was carried out by students from the Uriel García and Pukllasunchis Institutes of Cusco; […]
A few weeks ago we held an induction workshop with teachers focused by Alma in the auditorium of the Regional Education Management of Cusco, where we could witness the active participation of the initial teachers and create spaces for debate among colleagues. I feel that the development of face-to-face workshops is much more productive than […]
Working meeting for Curriculum Planning Academic Director, Coordinator of the IEPC-PEC and Departmental Coordinator of Alma “Juan Misael Saracho” Higher School of Teacher Training – Tarija How to measure our impact is one of the questions that tops our list when developing an educational project. In Bolivia, we have gone from developing complex tests that […]
It’s the beginning of the 2024 school year in both Perú Bolivia, and the year is kicking off strong! In Peru, 2024 marks the first year that Alma can complete its three-step project cycle. Step one is Alma‘s Innovative Pedagogy course. Step two is our Teachers’ Best Practices course. And new to this year […]
Recently, Alma hosted a trip to Bolivia with 30 educational specialists from the Cusco region of Perú. The goal of the trip was for Peruvian specialists and their Bolivian counterparts to share experiences working in an Alma project in two very different realities: the Peruvian Andes and the Bolivian Amazon. Through this exchange of experiences, […]
During field visits, we are pleased to encounter teachers like Maritza Álvarez, who is employed in the community of Paropujio, in the district of Cusipata. Only few minutes of observing her session was sufficed to realize that she is effectively implementing our educational proposal, adapting our strategies to achieve her learning objectives in an engaging […]
We take great satisfaction in the successful implementation of our ongoing Good Practices course, where our educators of resilience, having voluntarily enrolled, continue to fortify their competencies. Their primary objective remains to achieve of educational goals with their students. In September, we initiated visits to early childhood and primary educational institutions in the Cusco region. […]
Socialization and start of the Process of Complete Training (Semester 2) – District of Guayaramerín-Beni I have served as a teacher at Alma for several years, and now I am excited to reengage in this profession that I am passionate about, this time as a teacher trainer. At the end of July, I took on […]
Closing event of the Process of Complete Training – Guayaramerín District 2023 In the educational district of Guayaramerín, we have carried out a process called “Complete Training since March,” lasting for three months. During this period, in the first semester, we provided training to 39 teachers from public schools in this municipality in the Bolivian […]
Teachers of Núcleo Chocloca – District of Uriondo – Department of Tarija As a mother I have had a different relationship with the teachers who taught my children; and in retrospect I must admit that I have not always really valued the work and challenges that comes with being a teacher in a school and […]
This is my second year working at Alma and I have really learned firsthand how difficult it is to work in inclusive education in our department and, I believe, across the country. Last year I was able to see how classroom teachers were always asking for help to make curricular adaptations or to adequately address […]
Press clipping. February, 2023 Press clipping. January, 2023 How to understand the curricular changes of 2023 in Bolivia? was one of the questions we asked ourselves at the beginning of this administration. First, we saw it as important to answer this question because it would help to understand the two parties to the conflict, on […]