7:17 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · children|Cuba|Education|mexico
4 Oct 2006
Mexico City‘s legislative assembly (ALDF) is recommending a Cuban government teaching method to bring literacy to the hundreds of thousands of people in the Federal District who do not attend school.
…(ALDF) recommended to the central and regional governments (of DF) the establishment of a teaching method developed by the Cuban government, in which minimal resources are required and through which people learn to read and write in just 7 weeks.
One Mexico City lawmaker even projects that the illiteracy problem of one of the city’s largest regions, Iztapalapa — home to over 40,000 non-literate people — could be eliminated in one year using this method.
According to La Jornada, the program, called Yo sà puedo, consists of 65 “teleclasses” of 30 minutes each, and evolves in three phases over the course of 7 weeks.
Via / La Jornada
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1 Response to Mexico City goverment recommends Cuban teaching method
Yudith
October 10th, 2006 at 5:44 pm
Seven weeks! If this method really works, it should be tried in all Latin America! Could it work in other languages than Spanish? Apply it to English and French and bring it to the States, Canada, french -speaking Africa, name it! I can’t wait to see our kids learn to write in English for the first half of the school year and in Spanish for the second ! Do they have such a fast method for maths and science too?