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May 28, 2008, 3:16 pm
In addition to the year long placment that I am currently serving, WorldTeach also offers summer volunteer positions in Costa Rica’s Telesecundarias. These are high schools that are very rural and generally have a large part of their course load taught by instructional videos. WorldTeach puts native English speakers in these classrooms for a few months and give the students a chance to learn from not only a native English speaker but a real human being. I am going to be helping with the orientation of these new volunteers this coming week.
As part of my duties I had to travel … (Read more)
May 23, 2008, 6:50 am
In an effort to evaluate there English education program the Costa Rican Ministry of Education decided it would start testing all the nations English professors. The results thus far are about half the professors are failing the exam and failure results in the loss of certification. As a result there is a wave of fear spreading through the Tico English teaching community as no one is exempt from “the exam.” Not even gringos apparently.
I received a call from the Ministry that I needed to report to Buenos Aires (the nearest “big” town) and complete this very important exam. After some … (Read more)
March 25, 2008, 4:35 pm
I am back in Boruca after a free week for Semana Santa (Holy Week.) Schools shut down the week before Easter and most everything else is closed by the Thursday before Good Friday. In Costa Rica Easter is not the important holiday but Viernes Santo (Good Friday) is the main holiday where everything is totally shut down in the country. Through out the week the television plays a constant stream of religiously based movies. Most of these movies were originally American movies so they are all dubbed in Spanish. By about Thursday the television station starts run out of religiously … (Read more)
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