Welcome from the Exec Dir. of Fund. Perez Companc, John Thomas Brest.

The 11 day course which began on February 1 is being attended by 39 candidates selected to receive training in management tools to improve the quality of the education they provide their students.

The summer course “Management Tools for Heads and Supervisors from Rural Schools” is an initiative which forms part of the Seed Program to Support Rural Schools run jointly by the Bunge y Born and Perez Companc Foundations.

The course aims to provide school heads and supervisors who show potential with management tools which will enable them to improve the quality of education offered in rural schools throughout the country.

For Constanza Ortiz, the coordinator of the Education area at the Bunge y Born Foundation, “this course is also designed to be a way of acknowledging those heads and supervisors who invest so much time and effort into their daily tasks. All the teachers are from the Seed Program schools, which means that this is yet another way of reaching the institutions with free training proposals which each candidate has been awarded on the basis of his of her experience and performance.”

The course is designed as a workshop and presents three modules which cover teaching, management and cultural issues. These will be given by renowned specialists in the area: Lic. Bernardo Blejmar, Lic. Rosana Sampedro, Mag. Victoria Abregú, Mag. Rebeca Anijovich, Lic. Inés Aguerrondo, Dr. Claudia Romero, Dr. Paola Scarinci de Delbosco and Lic. Pía Landro.

The specific subjects to be covered during the course include:

• “The role of the school head and supervisors in managing change”
• “Recovery and meta-cognition of learnings”
• “Management in a rural school: from ideas to action2
• “Teaching in mixed classroom environments, education in diversity”
• “Management and improvements in learning”
• “Art education workshop for rural schools”
• “CPR and other emergency training for rural teachers”

This proposal has been developed as a strategy designed to last over time as an initiative in keeping with the Seed Program.