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This study aimed to explore the use of Inquiry – based learning (IBL) to foster eighth graders active participation in the English class. A qualitative case study was followed during a semester at Institucion Educativa Normal Superior. Findings revealed that in spite of receiving classes remotely given the pandemic Covid- 19 students shared, collaborated, and actively participated either orally or doing written tasks to create meaning though the texts they shared. Additionally, students developed new learning skills to solve every day problems and creatively communicated with others using digital practices never included before in their classes. Also, IBL allowed the teacher to assume different roles such as facilitator, motivator and guide rather than being only a provider of knowledge. Finally, this study also highlights some benefits like the use of internet to look up for information and challenges like the lack of oral participation because of the pronunciation. Those benefits and challenges came out with the use of IBL to foster active participation.

This internship was conducted in the Bilingualism for Peace program at El Sabanal School in Monteria with students of beginner level from the rural zone. The purpose of this internship was to gain experience of teaching English to children and also improve my performance as an English teacher. The pedagogies are several concepts that were addressed during the internship, learner-centered approach, task-based learning, e-learning and intercultural understanding, those elements were fundamental in the design of the units and lessons. Furthermore, the experience obtained inside the classroom and how the previous concepts are aligned with the suggested units and lessons are part of this report. Finally, from this journey it can understand that the teaching process is a hard labor and how this experience was helpful to improve as a teacher, also some limitations are included such as the lack of technological resources due to not all students can have access them.

This internship was conducted at Institución Educativa Cristóbal Colón within the scope of the Bilingualism for Peace program. This internship had the purpose of giving me a real experience in teaching English to children as well improve students’ communicative skills and values. Furthermore, this internship helped me to reflect about my methodologies while teaching as well as to understand that teaching English helps to promote values and citizenship. A set of pedagogical theories are shown in this report for making the teaching process more structured. These pedagogies are the core elements for the unit and lesson planning process and were implemented in the development of the class. To highlight, these pedagogies are closely related to the program alignments which are the promotion of values and citizenship. Additionally, a unit and a lesson plan are deeply described. Finally. The conclusions, the recommendation and limitations are portrayed.

Internships are professional practicums carried out by university students, generally during the last years of the degree, to put into practice the knowledge and faculties learned in a real working context. Besides, the intern has the purpose of improving or solving a problem found in that context. My internship was developed in a program offered by the University of Cordoba, called Bilingualism for peace at la Ribera high school in Monteria, Cordoba. I was working with pre-intermediate level students. In this level the vast majority of students had difficulties in expressing themselves verbally (speaking skill). To improve this, I decided to base my teaching method on various pedagogies (PBL, culturally responsive pedagogy, and intrinsic motivation). Throughout this process, I grew as a teacher, and as a person; I realized how difficult and challenging is this job but, it is also rewarding to see students’ progress and how they got more interested in a subject.

The University of Córdoba offers undergraduate students the internship program as an opportunity for students strengthen their English Teaching abilities. Bilingualism for Peace is a program headed by The University of Cordoba which main purpose is to offer students from vulnerable areas of the city the opportunity to learn English, generating a big impact on the Department of Córdoba. It was Bilingualism for Peace, the program where I decided to conduct my internship; unfortunately, the process was abruptly changed with the Covid 19 pandemic and it was necessary to take measures for prevention. The interns of the program could not continue with the process and the internship was considerably affected.

This paper aims to show the teaching process I developed at the internship Saber pro, at the University of Cordoba, the main methodologies, conclusions, limitations, and my personal growth. The main objective of the internship Saber pro was to increase students’ reading skills through a variety of methodologies in order to help the students to achieve a good result. The representative methodology is the E-learning because the learning scenario has changed ought to the Coronavirus and it has been relevant to go with all these changes and make use of a methodology that could overcome the situation. This paper focuses in some other strategies as blended learning, distance learning and gamification learning

This report details an internship executed at public institution Marceliano Polo in Cereté-Córdoba. In this report I share how was my personal experience as a novice teacher and the things I had to deal with during all this process, I also mentioned my experience with the implementation of virtual classes, The current situation led us to take different measures to carry out our work as teachers. In addition, this internship aimed to implement lessons that focus on CLT to improve students’ oral skills. CLT lessons have proved to be an effective alternative to develop more dynamic and fluent lessons. This approach has been used for the development of communicative skills. Hence, the purpose of this internship was to identify the possible improvements in students’ oral skills after the implementation of CLT lessons.

This document reports the development of the internship at Santa Rosa de Lima - Sede Seis de Marzo, which was carried out in person with learners from transition grade to fifth grade. The pedagogical intervention was based on supporting this population in educational processes of learning English as a second language. My main aim in this internship was to create spaces where children had closer relationships with the English language. I attempted to implement activities with the methodological strategies that were based on the HLTP Target Language Comprehensibility and Establishing a Meaningful and Purposeful Context.

This internship was carried out at University of Córdoba in the program of Saber Pro. The purpose of this internship is to strengthen students' abilities to answer questions related to communicative competence in English from the Saber Pro test. Furthermore, the internship helped me to get experience of teaching English with university students and improve my English skills. During this experience teaching people of my age or older, I realized the importance of choosing an accurate methodology. I worked with last semester students from Different careers at University of Córdoba, I was assigned 3 groups per month from different careers, they were around 20 to 45 students per group. Besides, I took it as an opportunity to motivate non-English learners to learn English and show them how important it is to know another language. In this way, making use of new strategies and using technology, they could see English as something interesting and not as they have always considered it a compulsory and boring subject.

This internship was carried out at Universidad de Córdoba, in the frame of Saber Pro course. Its main purpose was to offer interns an authentic experience in English teaching taking into account virtual sceneries as a response to continue teaching EFL during the current pandemic situation, COVID 19. This report follows a methodology that focuses on the Flipped Instructional and a Gamification approach, which were the foundation of the lessons planned during this internship. The sessions were through virtual modality in periods of three hours each one, and the groups were mostly 10th-semester students of various programs in Universidad de Córdoba. Moreover, the attitude of students at the end of the course showed to be more open and their participation increased considerably. At the end of this internship, it could be observed that the Gamification approach had a positive impact on students' perception of English classes. The pedagogical theories used in this internship are explained in this paper along with the description of the lesson plan of one of the sessions. Finally, the conclusions, recommendations, and limitations of this experience are asserted.

This internship was conducted at the University of Córdoba in Montería. The purpose of this internship program is to help increase the score of undergraduate students taking the Saber- pro test. Besides, it helped me to get experience teaching English young adults and also to improve my English skills as an English teacher. Several pedagogical concepts were addressed in this paper to develop the teaching and learning process effectively. Since these pedagogies are primordial for the designing of the unit and lesson plans implemented during this process. Moreover, the experience gained through this process helped me to have a practical experience in teaching undergraduate students from different degrees at the University of Córdoba. Finally, being a teacher is a profession that involves going through many challenges such as motivation in students, maintaining interest, incorporating new technologies, evaluation mechanisms, etc. However, it is worth promoting learning in students despite there are certain limitations that surround students such as internet connection and electronic devices.

This report describes the internship conducted at Cross Curricular Competencies’ courses in the frame of Saber Pro University of Cordoba Institutional Program. It aims to enhance students’ results on Saber Pro National Test while taking the English course to foster students’ reading skills and meliorate their development on the standard test. This internship was implemented in a student-centered e-learning course and follows a flipped instruction method, which used self-recorded videos and personalized learning guides for the asynchronous phase, and interactive activities and discussions for the synchronous online meetings. The use of ICT was valuable to deliver the English courses through an LMS and reduce transactional distance and sense of isolation resulted from the E-approach. Finally, it discusses the findings, pedagogical gains, conclusions, and limitations faced during this meaningful experience.

Due to the pandemic for COVID-19 education has been through many changes and adjustments in order to adapt the traditional face-to-face learning and teaching to the virtual education field; a new experience for many students and educators. Therefore, Universidad de Córdoba implemented a new way for interns to develop their praxis during the Internship whose main purpose is to prepare undergraduate candidates from the university to develop and refine skills to cope with the Saber Pro exam in order to improve their scores. On the other hand, in this paper I will describe the theories of the approaches E-learning, Flipped Learning and Flipped classroom which were the ones used to sustain this internship, as well as my experience along the process.

The bilingualism policy in Colombia is the result of the attempt of the National Government to boost forms of bilingual education. To achieve that Government goal, the Ministry of Education has been in charge of making the necessary educational policies, programs, projects etc. to ensure and optimize the quality of the English as a foreign language (EFL) teaching and learning. The present paper starts to present the internship at the secretary of education of Monteria. The internship was held through the ‘Estado Joven program’ of the Ministry of labor. The object of this paper is to describe my experience as a bilingual assistant; I deeply help strengthen the bilingualism police in Monteria by carrying out strategies and actions to contribute to the enrichment of the professional development of the English teachers and promote international academic mobility that benefits principals (English immersion program).

This internship program is held by the Universidad de Córdoba in Monteria- Colombia. The purpose of this internship is to get experience of teaching English while having the opportunity to grow up in my professional and personal life. In addition, this internship helped me to improve my English and teaching skills enhancing my methodologies and values as a teacher. The internship was held through the “Saber Pro- ICFES” program. The aim of this report is to evidence my process of learning, experience, and improvement, as well all the implemented pedagogies and methodologies; flip learning, remote teaching, E-learning, and Question-Answer relationship (QAR), that made possible this process to be carried out in a structured way since due to the COVID- 19 it was necessary to restructure the program in terms of the modality, design, and implementation of materials by implementing virtual educational tools. Additionally, all the gains, results, conclusions, recommendations, and limitations are deeply described in the following chapters.

This report serves the purpose of explaining the details of my experience while developing my internship held at CDI El Recuerdo. It will envelop the design of the material, the limitations, and the challenges faced during the process. Students who are willing to graduate from an English Teaching degree at the University of Córdoba, can opt to choose an internship in “my first steps” Project as an option to complete the requirements to graduate. The Project “my first steps” was launched as part of the macro Project “Córdoba Transformada,” led by the University, and it is carried out at CDI El Recuerdo. It usually consists in teaching 2 times a week kids from 3 to 5 years old, but as a consequence of the pandemic, this semester it required changes. The main change was the creation of a unit, and 4 lesson plans that will be used by next interns once the CDI opens again instead of going to develop them ourselves. The paper shows different aspects such as pedagogies used to design the lessons, per example gamification, which consists in adding game characteristics to real live classrooms. It is divided in 5 sections: introduction, pedagogies, methodology, experience, and conclusions and limitations. The former will be explained later.

In this report will be explained and exposed every detail of my experience in this internship. This internship was to be carried out at “CDI El Recuerdo” in Montería, but due to health issues in the country it was not possible to complete the process personally. This report will be about the pedagogies used to design the materials and lessons, along with the challenges and difficulties I encountered during the process. This internship is offered by the University of Córdoba, and any student in last semester can apply for it. This internship is part of the project “my first steps”, and it is offered as graduation option. This project is part of a macro project that goes by the name of “Cordoba Transformada”, which was created by the University and it is carried out in “CDI El Recuerdo.” In this internship, one of my responsibilities was to create 4 lessons from a unit created by the team (my partners and advisor). However, the lessons were not carried out as expected because of the national health situation. Although it was not possible develop the whole process in the CDI, the responsibilities were assumed and fulfilled. This paper describes all the features that made part of the internship process and all that was used to support my work. It is divided into 6 sections: introduction, pedagogies, methodology, experience, conclusions and recommendations, and limitations. They will be developed along the document.

The University of Córdoba offers the internship program as a selectable choice for students to attain a professional degree. Córdoba Transformada is a macro project elaborated by the university to create a positive impact in the Department of Córdoba. There are micro projects such as “Mis primeros pasos” and “Speakers” that are a part of the macro project. The latter project was the context in which the internship process was going to take place. However, the global pandemic prevented a traditional internship to be carried out, which limited interns to lesson planning.

Cordoba “My first steps” in the modality of the internship has allowed trainee teachers to explore a real-life context working with young children from a vulnerable area in Monteria Cordoba, with the purpose of applying different strategies and practices that will help children in this program to get an initial encounter with the target language. Due to the difficulties of the current year and the inability of providing the face to face classes, the internship in the first semester 2020 has suffered some changes, and in order to continue the project, it was established to work in the designing of a unit plan and several lesson plans following some approaches that will be beneficial to this population of students. The objective of this paper is to describe my experience in this internship; designing some lesson plans for students at such a young age, as well as describing the activities carried out during the whole process of the internship. Following the designing of the lesson plans, this final report deals with the implementation of a play-based approach and the advantages of working with this one taking into account the children’s context and needs.

This internship was conducted virtually in the university of Cordoba in the frame of the saber pro courses. The saber pro internship purpose was merely about gaining English teaching experience from university students as well as acquiring experience in using technological tools. Additionally, this internship helped me to reflect about the methodologies I used to teach my students as well as all the technological tools that can be used to make the classroom environment more interactive for the students. These pedagogies and technological tools are core elements of this internship which are E- learning, Virtual learning, flipped learning, distance learning, gamification technological mediations and learning guides. Additionally, evidences of the internship process would be shown