The Association for the Development of Comprehensive and Community Education (Aseinc) has been recognized twice by the Finnish NGO HundrED. The first recognition was in 2021 for the Aulas de Paz program. On that occasion, 2,657 initiatives participated
The Classroom 20 program, created by the Association for the Development of Comprehensive and Community Education (Aseinc) was recognized as a teaching model to be replicated in other countries by the Finnish NGO dedicated to global education, HundrED as one of the main educational proposals innovative. Of 3,000 postulated initiatives, only 100 were chosen.
The jury that included 188 world experts in education chose Classroom 20 to be part of the new global collection of HundrEd 2023, after being proven as an innovative, quality and high-impact program in education.
“For us it is a pride. It has been 13 years of constant, dedicated and sustained work supporting the most vulnerable populations in public and rural schools in our country”, said María Carolina Orsini, Executive Director and founder of Aseinc.
This program, sponsored by the Chevron company, has been applied in 468 schools in the country, has trained 5,388 teachers, It is born from the need of Venezuelan education for “the training of its teachers and the performance of boys and girls in the areas of reading, writing and mathematics”.
The strategy is developed at the initial, primary and high school levels. He stays in the schools for three years and accompanies teachers, students and parents.
Together with a team of Venezuelan teachers, the Aula 20 team also developed books and notebooks with simple instructions “so that anyone regardless of their level of education can understand them”.
At the beginning of the project, we worked with electronic devices, but “due to the economic crisis, the deterioration of purchasing power and all the difficulties we were having to provide schools with what we were doing with laptops, video beams, projectors and electronic devices, it was reduced. Aseinc’s pedagogical team had the creativity and ability to teach schools so that with useful material, they could create their own didactic material”, explains Orsini.
However, the teacher training and support program continues to promote the use of technology as a tool for teaching, hand in hand with playful strategies.
Aula 20 aims to take its proposal to private schools in the country. “One of the reasons why we won the award is because our strategy can be applied in any context, whether in private or public schools, because it is teaching from play and discovery. “The issue of educational quality does not only affect public schools,” she underlines.
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