Our investigation is about the current situation of English teachers who work in State high schools that depend of the Consejo de Educación Secundaria. These include high schools number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Technical education, as well as private and rural high schools have been left aside due to lack of time to make an in-depth investigation, although we are planning to extend it in a near future.
The reason of our interest in this subject is that since we are students of the
Instituto de Formación Docente, we have come to realize from our teaching
practice in these high schools, that several teachers are not attending the
regular courses and do not have a degree. It important to highlight the fact
that the course was first put available in 2008 in Paysandú with teachers for all the subjects.
Consequently, we wonder about their motives not attend these courses,
which level of English do they possess, the pedagogical and methodological
background they had when they first began teaching and the one they
have acquired while working at high schools, the influence that the training
course has had in them, and (to those teachers who are not studying) what
expectance they have of their work situation in a near future, comparing
themselves with teachers who have a degree or are in the way of graduating.
The development of the investigation was delivering a questionnaire to all
English teachers who work in the previously mentioned high schools, plus the aid of the institute’s data regarding students of the English teachers training course.
– Antonella Suárez and Veronica Griecco, IFD Paysandú
Simposio Voces Estudiantiles 2010 