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IDB loan to help Uruguay with mathematics and English learning at schools
The Plan Ceibal II content supports education in mathematics and English in Primary and Middle Schools The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a 6 million dollars loan to Uruguay to finance the Plan Ceibal II (digital content), which will help to strengthen mathematics learning by 90,000 primary and middle school students and extend English teaching to half of all 4th, 5th and 6th graders in urban public primary schools.
The so-called Plan Ceibal II to Support Education in Mathematics and English in Primary and Middle School seeks to use new information and communications technologies to help improve the math and English instruction at the primary and middle-school levels.
The initiative has a three-pronged approach: expanding the Mathematics Adaptive Platform (PAM in Spanish), broadening the Ceibal model in English and assessing the impact of these measures.
Steps to be taken include expanding the coverage of teachers and students who know and use the PAM to boost learning of mathematics. The number of schools with capacity to use the platform will go from 280 to 400 at the primary level and from 52 to 125 at the secondary level.
At the same time, Ceibal in English will reach 2,000 groups of 4th, 5th and 6th graders in urban public schools through the hiring of off-site teachers, technical assistance to 2,000 classroom teachers including training and promotion, delivery of materials to schools and a new version of the CREA platform for managing digital content to facilitate the work of the off-site teachers and those actually in the classroom.
The 6 million IDB loan is over 25 years, with a grace period of 42 months, an interest rate pegged to the Libor and a local contribution of 921,000 dollars.
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Read all commentsI wonder what % of the 6 million will be used to actually teach the children. Let's hope that they do not teach economics as taught in Argentinas schools.LMAO
Jul 08th, 2014 - 06:24 am 0“No Money Pepe” got this ‘accolade’ from me for NOT paying the agreed teachers increase in pay because (all together now) HE HAD NO MONEY!
Jul 08th, 2014 - 08:58 pm 0THAT is how much he 'values' education, never having completed his secondary schooling himself. He is clearly illiterate and innumerate.
Being able to speak English, or as the kids themselves prefer ‘Americano’ English, is guaranteed to send them abroad for a better life and escape the punitive personal and business taxes so loved by this execrable ‘government’. If the Broad Fraud Party stopped emulating their mates in The Dark country by taking bribes and downright theft, these taxes could be reduced.
I hope IDB insists that prospective teachers and facilitators are properly trained on how to use the hard and software involved. In the case of the Ceibal I programme, this was not the case.
Jul 09th, 2014 - 12:09 am 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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