As a result of further integration of the school with family and community, Guantanamo hosts during these days the national workshop on systematization of the research project “Transform to Educate”.
As a result of further integration of the school with family and community, Guantanamo hosts during these days the national workshop on systematization of the research project “Transform to Educate” that turns 5 years of existence and comprises 24 schools in the territory.
Sponsored by the Cuban Educators Association and the Ministry of Education, this initiative achieves adequate academic instruction and promotes the values in children and adolescents who are enrolled in primary and secondary schools, vocational, senior high schools and special schools as Desembarco del Granma and 14 de Junio.
During the workshop, participants shares experiences according to the characteristics of each school and communities using participatory techniques and analysis of educational work by municipal and provincial facilitators and coordinators.
These people orient how to have pleasant and instructive parents’ schools and deal with aspects related to smoking, alcoholism, sexually transmitted diseases, domestic violence and civic norms, among others.
Mariano Isla Guerra, vice president of that group, first acknowledges the work of educational institutions that are appended to the project, which allows more interaction in the teaching process from the very community work and the essential support of the family.
The experiences of Transform to Educate project started in the first stage in six schools in Villa Clara and Matanzas, an endeavor that spreads throughout the country and in Guantánamo reaches close communication with the stakeholders of neighborhood by means of parents’ schools, workshops and cultural projects to form better educated men and women.
Translation: Liubis Balart Martínez