Institutos Educacionales Asociados IEA is located in Caracas Venezuela. The school runs a program as part of the curriculum called The Trix and Trax Talent and Skills Program that helps Students from 10-17 years old to discover and develop their talents, socioemotional and XXI Century skills, integrating technology encouraging them to dream big.
The Skills Builder program has enriched our talent and skills programme. The essential skills have been incorporated in the planning and curriculum content of other subjects like Language and grammar and Psychology. The resources and activities set for each skills stage has complemented our content and also our ways to measure progress. It has helped our teachers and learners have better understanding on how to develop each skill. The resources and activities are very useful and easy to implement during the class sessions; the learners like to interact with the resources. This year, we not only celebrated the II editions of The Trixandtrax Talents and Skills Challenge but also our students organized and facilitated an event for their parents, teaching their parents to work in teams through the role-playing methodology that they experience every time they have to do a presentation. This was a real highlight of the year that allowed them to put into practice their ability to solve problems, communication, leadership, Teamwork, and creativity.
We create activities to give students the opportunity to put in to practise the theory and experience real life situations so that they can practice their skills. The Talents and Skills Challenge competition is an opportunity to reinforce teamwork, leadership, creativity, listening and speaking skills. Students also have the opportunity to present their ideas (speaking and listening skills) and create and organise their own events (creativity, speaking, listening, leadership and aiming high). We also introduced a project called “The World in 30 Years”. Students are encouraged to imagine the world in 30 years and how their talent and skills would form part of the world. This project provides an opportunity for students to keep practising the skills that they have developed.
During the summer recess we want to incorporate academic coordination personal and school human resource personal to Skills Builder training sessions so they can help us to train more teachers to get them motivated to use the program. We will also focus on rewarding essential skills in award assemblies and writing essential skills into the curriculum policy.
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