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This study examines the beliefs of students at the University of Cordoba in Colombia about oral fluency activities facilitated by English Teaching Assistants (ETA) in the Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program. The study aims to understand how these activities impact students' engagement, motivation, and confidence in learning English. The research is an expansion of previous studies in this area, which have primarily focused on other cultural contexts. The researchers collected data through Semi-structured interviews and recorded observations where notes were left in the protocols. Four themes emerged from the data in (a) a learner-centered approach to teaching and learning, (b) the need for improvement in oral fluency and speaking skills, (c) cultural awareness and (d) student engagement, motivation, and confidence. The study funded that students' perception of English conversation clubs played a crucial role in the development of their oral fluency, and that students' engagement, motivation, and confidence are key factors that determine their continued attendance and participation in these clubs. Additionally, the study highlights the importance of a voluntary and anxiety-free speaking activity, as well as the significance of cultural awareness in the development of speaking skills.

The immersion in an unforeseen mode of acquiring knowledge for traditional learners and professors during pandemic covid-19 released several obstacles. In this sense, learner-content, learner-learner, learner-teacher and learner-interface interactions became so reluctant in online classes that provoked an awkward ambiance. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to describe the characteristics of a synchronous e-lesson should contain to promote interaction in fifth EFL students. This research study used a theoretical framework to describe the most important constructs covered; online interaction, e-learning and online lesson plan. The sample for this study was one fifth semester professor from an EFL program, as well as 5 fifth semester students. As there are several means to collect data, the researcher applied interviews based on needs analysis. The study employed thematic analysis and a total of 10 sub-themes emerged from four main pre-stablished themes which are; Learner-content, Learner-teacher, Learner-learner and Learner-interface interaction. These subthemes were organized in the ensuing fashion: Learner-content Interaction; engaging topics, visual support, contextualization and load management, Learner-teacher Interaction; teacher-student rapport, methodological activities, Learner-learner Interaction; teamwork and respectful and enthusiastic attitude, Learner-interface Interaction; video-conferencing platforms and tools of preference.

There have been many challenges in education due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Communication and information technologies, however, have become hope amidst pandemic, as they have allowed the teaching and learning process to be developed. Remote education during pandemic has been the topic of many researchers to uncover the essence of teachers’ lived experience from various perspectives. However, little has been done on exploring the lived experiences of L2 teachers in school contexts. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of English educators with online education in a public school in the department of Cordoba, Colombia. This study employed a descriptive phenomenological design. The researcher collected the data through in-depth, semi-structured interviews and reflective diaries. The data was analyzed through Colaizzi's phenomenological seven steps. The study found that remote education during Covid-19 implied encountering multiple mixed feelings and perceptions that were mostly associated with Covid-19’s obstacles. The integration of ICTs, however, served as a bridge amidst pandemic’s hurdles to allow the continuity of the teaching and learning process. This integration as result, provided new opportunities to discover new technological considerations and to enrich the participant’s life and professional aspects. This study highlights the transcendence of the participant’s perception towards the lived experience and the significance of ICTs in the adaptation process of moving from a physical modality to virtual spaces.

Over the past decade, there have been many studies that have shown all classroom management difficulties and also the lack of teachers’ good strategies for solving problems in schools. One way to attack this root problem is to implement what is known as “leadership” in all the schools and mainly in teachers’ minds. This paper highlights the importance of becoming leaders in schools and implementing leadership skills with our students. The idea is to transform our current thoughts and minds to think and reason like leaders. This paper incorporates all the results and all the goals that we will achieve if we implement leadership in our classes in collaboration with the integrants' experience of the practicum. The paper proposes the success that teachers and future teachers will achieve in their classes if they implement leadership.

The objective of this document was to analyze how the design of a didactic unit, in which the didactic transposition is implemented, is applied as a strategy for teaching chemistry in 9th grade students of the Andrés Rodríguez de Sahagún Educational Institution (Córdoba), Where there is a situation of low academic performance and the achievements proposed for the advancement of the educational training process are not being exceeded. Taking as a reference the theory of Yves Chevallard (1991), from wise knowledge to taught knowledge. Considering the development and implementation of the objectives worked, a qualitative approach is used, with a descriptive method using semi-structured interviews where the required information is obtained. The final result is the assessment and relevance of the chemistry teaching unit with the implementation of the didactic transposition giving priority to DBAs and EBCs allowing a closer approach to learning and teaching chemistry in grade 9. For this purpose, a series of phases or stages that allowed determining a process as appropriate as possible to promote meaningful learning of the subject in question.

Uno de los principales problemas ambientales que acarrea en la actualidad es la contaminación por residuos plásticos, dicho problema posee un carácter global es decir que afecta a todo el planeta. Siendo el plástico un material de consumo masivo en el mercado, uno de ellos el icopor o EPS (Poliestireno), este proyecto de investigación se centra en buscar una alternativa que permita disminuir el impacto ambiental por este plástico con el cultivo del gusano de harina (Tenebrio molitor) como solución, que a su vez la biodegración de este genera excremento con muchos nutrientes y utilizado como abono orgánico. Se utiliza un enfoque cualitativo, con método de investigación-acción. El escenario escogido para potenciar el cultivo del gusano es a través de una estrategia didáctica que se implementa y desarrolla en compañía con estudiantes de 6° de la institución educativa Alfonso Builes Correa, cuyo producto final es una cartilla informativa llamada “Tenebrio molitor: un gusano antiplástico” donde los estudiantes narraran su experiencia científica con los pasos, resultados y beneficios obtenidos durante la investigación y una socialización en toda la institución educativa. Se concluye que esta experiencia educativa logró llamar la atención a los directivos de la institución y se logró formar un grupo científico del cual hacen parte integrantes de varios cursos

This document depicts personal descriptions of leadership in an academic environment

The purpose of this report is to put in evidence my experience, personal and professional growth gained, as well as negative implications and limitations presented when designing material as an intern at Cordoba Transformada, specifically in Cordoba: Mis Primeros Pasos - Speakers, an internship program held by The University of Cordoba, in Monteria, Colombia. The purpose of the internship was to teach English as a Foreign language to children from a Child Development Center named El Recuerdo, located in the southern part of the city. Nevertheless, COVID-19 emergency alert arose and the CDC closed its gates. Preceding its closure, this internship requirement changed, Speakers team was asked to design material implementing virtual educational tools to be developed when conditions permit. The aforementioned material resulted to be a project reflected in a macro unit whose main goal is to assure a meaningful english first encounter to early aged kids. My report is focused on an EFL association implementing methodologies such as Phonics in Early Childhood, Project-Based Learning (PBL), Total Physical Response (TPR), and English in Early Childhood supported by approaches and pedagogies explained in detail in the following chapters.

Leadership skills have been found to create improvement in different contexts. There have been many studies inquiring about the impact of leadership in different knowledge areas. Despite that, it seems as though no studies address the role of leadership skills in teachers in the classroom. This case study describes the leadership skills of three secondary English teachers and how they use those skills in the classroom. Data includes semi-structured interviews, and focus group. Findings revealed that teachers have at least four of the five specific skills indicated in the theoretical framework. Moreover, it was disclosed that teachers use their leadership skills to stimulate students to become active learners, participate and be motivated; to create a relationship of mutual understanding, to be guidance, and reinforce cooperative learning.

Oral participation is the process in which students express and communicate their ideas and thoughts, having opportunities to practice L2 and interact with the teacher and classmates. According to Socio-cognitive theory, alignment plays an important role when learning a L2, which considers learners’ mind and body interaction with their peers and their surroundings as essential for learning. Thus, this study aimed to explore the alignment moments between a pre-service teacher and his students in an EFL classroom, as well as, the learning and participation opportunities generated by this alignment. Lesson observations were approached following micro-analysis and multimodal transcriptions. The findings described the semiotic resources such as proxemics, body posture, gazing and intonation that converged during the interaction between the pre-service teacher and students. Learning opportunities generated from the alignment moments such as participation and synchrony were also described. The study suggests benefits and further possibilities for research on alignment under a socio-cognitive approach in the field of teacher-education.