Help Revolutionize Education For Peruvian Children

During these times, the way of learning has changed and the students have looked for new ways to stay connected while they continue learning. Our PEP, Camila Vásquez tells us the story of her student Angelita from I.E. 101148 La Zanja (Cajamarca), who overcame her shyness to help Sonita, her classmate:

“This month we decided to work on our personal schedules, the challenge was for each one to do it thinking about their activities. Angela noted that Sonita had some confusion in doing so. Confidently, she stated what she had noticed and decided to do something to help her. She had a lot of ideas: record an audio, a video, or make a song, but she wasn't sure which one would work best. We took advantage of a mathematics topic that we had learned by watching our “Learn at Home” programs: solving situations of uncertainty by evaluating our probabilities.

Angelita made a chart with the 3 options and evaluated the 2 factors we learned: how much is her ability to make each option and how much would Sonia like it. She put a value, from 1 to 10, to each factor of her 3 options and then multiply them and find the one with the highest number, that is, the highest probability. So she decided to make a video, but was not sure how to do it. So, we analyzed together the videos from her previous classes and she found 4 essential parts: presentation, development, examples and conclusion.
At one point she said, "But I have never taught, I don't know how to do it" and she doubted she could do it. I tried to make her notice all the skills she had and she was surprised, we agreed to trust that she’ll do it with a lot of love.

She already had everything she needed, now she just had to wait for the recording. The next day she surprised us with this great job! She used a blackboard, it was recorded in her field, she used different colors to explain the difference between weekdays and weekends, she gave examples, she imagined what Sonita does at home, she asked her mom and dad for help, she used words like "see" to emphasize some ideas. She was a teacher! "