Help Revolutionize Education For Peruvian Children

Deysi , fellow of our Leadership Program, teaches at the San Miguel de Serén school located in Tambo Grande, Piura in the fourth grade of primary school. She, like all teachers throughout Peru, due to the pandemic caused by COVID 19, have had to reorganize to run their classes in the best possible way.

Deysi teaches his students virtually. If students have a learning gap, she teaches personalized classes by WhatsApp, or calls according to the availability of connection of her students, this method presents many more challenges than those already had in the education sector. 

One of her students is Karen, the teacher tells us:

“When I met Karen, she made some excuses to work. She justified herself with the fact that the signal and internet connection in her community is quite deficient, but as the days went by, we gained confidence and she started a lot of initiative "

At the beginning, Karen had difficulties reading and solving basic operations, which did not allow her to advance in the same way as her classmates or to participate in classes. It was clear that their starting point was different.

Therefore, in addition to the general classes with the entire classroom, Deysi and Karen had individual sessions to reinforce the topics covered in the classes.

In the personalized classes Karen asked more freely, she transmitted when something was not clear to her and her learning was more accurate, exceeding her own goals.

Nowadays Karen is at the level of the rest of her classmates, when she feels that she does not understand something, she transmits it without fear and on her own initiative, focusing on the subject until everything is clear.

Karen now carries out her activities with great conviction and complete security, she is very attentive to feedback because she has realized that it helps her a lot to improve.

The work of accompaniment and identification of the needs by the teachers of each of their students is very important for their good personal development.