#planceibal

The plan Ceibal is a programme from Uruguay with the contribution of the British council to develop classes in English as a second language, there are native speakers and a lot of professionals from various countries working to teach remotely through video- conferencing for primary students in state schools.

Graham Stanley is Country Director for the British Council in Uruguay and takes part in this project. He says that remote teaching is quite challenging because you are physically removed from the learners, so you have to do it very interactively. Also is important to coordinate with the classroom teacher in Spanish in a weekly basis to make sure that teaching and learning is taking place successfully.

In order to deliver those classes it is of utmost importance to know that you will have to include digital learning technologies such videoconferencing equipment to deliver the class, websites, presentation software, etc.

In order to implement this project they started delivering laptops to students and teachers in state schools, free wireless internet and videoconferencing equipment were installed in schools across the country.

This programme is a useful tool that connects a classroom with various teachers from different countries like Argentina and Philippines. This was needed in order to solve the lack of trained and qualified English teachers. They learn not only the language, but culture too, encouraging the dialogue and improve learning and language skills.

Video ilustrado para difusión del programa Ceilab del Plan Ceibal.

Julio 2020.

Hellooo and welcome to my blog! ;)

My name’s Raissa. I’m from Cebu (Philippines) and I’m an English teacher for Plan Ceibal. With this blog, I would like to share with you all my journey in becoming a much better teacher to my students who live in Uruguay. I’ll also be posting what it’s like to work with other teachers in different municipalities in Uruguay who are as well part of this amazing project.