Out loud: meeting with facilitating teachers of the Let’s All Learn to Read program

Global Humanitaria has given workshops on the Let’s All Learn to Readprogram aimed at more than 60 teachers where topics were addressed on how to evaluate student learning and how to implement differentiation strategies in the classroom to address diverse needs of children. During these spaces, emphasis is placed on reading aloud as a strategy to promote reading practices in the classroom and the school library.

To do this, elements, skills and resources that must be considered to do a reading aloud that attract the attention of girls and boys to the texts, strengthen emotional ties and contribute to the students’ reading and comprehension process were addressed. It also delved  into recommendations and guidance, such as those from Jim Trelease, on what to do and what to avoid when reading aloud at home and at school . 

The workshop was given by the education coordinator of Global Humanitaria in Colombia, Fernando Venegas, who accompanied and participated in this space to personally address the concerns and needs of educational centers and community centers and the teachers who deal with them. development of reading, writing, oral and library projects.

Training and support for teachers

Global Humanitaria, in its educational program, has identified centers where the Luker Foundation’s ATAL program is applied to improve student learning from their initial stage. In collaboration with said foundation, we provide training to teachers on how to use it to obtain significant improvements in students. Afterwards, our team of tutors monitors and accompanies the teachers of these centers, to detect if the use of that methodology is carried out correctly.

The adequate development of ATAL, enhances and improves the reading, writing and oral skills of children, through the exercise of reading micro-skills and promoting an inclusive environment conducive to the comprehensive development of students, from kindergarten to first and second grade. primary.

The objective is to improve the students’ skills, so that they can decode and automate the process and acquire greater fluency in reading and a greater degree of understanding of what they read and write.