Training participants with the British Council. Photo: Odalys Falcón.
Positive evaluation of the training of English teachers with British Council experts
Training participants with the British Council. Photo: Odalys Falcón.
The communication skills training in English as a foreign language, with the use of the "Remote Learning" methodology, received by a group of 15 teachers from several higher education centers throughout the country, concluded at UCI on Thursday afternoon, June 8th.
The program is part of the policy for perfecting the teaching of this foreign language in the Cuban universities, and is conceived within the working relationship between the Ministry of Higher Education (MES) and the British Council.
The closing of this meeting was attended by Minerva Rodríguez, Country Director of British Council, Cuba, and Dr.Sc., Santiago Jorge Rivera Pérez, National Advisor for Foreign Languages to the Ministry of Higher Education (MES), accompanied by two journalists from this ministry.
In the report of the meeting, Dr.Sc., Rivera Pérez thanked UCI and the British Embassy in Cuba for having contributed to materializing this result; she highlighted the opportunity of sharing this experience as a very positive one, since new perspectives for the training and updating of the English language teaching in our country have been offered by enabling the incorporation of the distance education modality.
She added that the participant professors will now have the mission of socializing in each territory with other colleagues, the techniques and methodologies used by the British Council for teaching English in Spanish-speaking countries.
For her part, the Cuban Director of the British Council informed the attendees that our country is the third one in America that has been able to access the remote teaching methodology.
Undoubtedly, this experience will permit our teachers to equip themselves with new tools in updating the English language teaching methodology for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in the Cuban universities.
MSc. Tamara Gutiérrez Baffil, Director of the Language Center at the Pinar del Rio University.
MSc. José Armando de la Cruz Roselló, Professor at the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM).
MSc. Clara Esther Gómez Gonzalvo, Professor at the University of Cienfuegos.
Dr.Sc., Rivera Pérez thanked UCI and the British Embassy in Cuba for having contributed to materializing this result.
The Cuban Director of the British Council informed the attendees that our country is the third one in America that has been able to access the remote teaching methodology.
