In the town of La Alegría, approximately one kilometer from Buenaventura, head of the Municipality of Calixto García, is the “Fermín Rodríguez Díaz” Educational Institution, a center with comprehensive results for several years and that in the current school period welcomes students belonging to Early Childhood Education (Preschool) and Primary Education (first to sixth) attended by an experienced staff of workers, both teachers and support.
Odalis Pereda Tejeda has been the director of this center for several years and among her many activities, the day I visited the institution, she was attending a visit by the Methodological Team of the General Directorate of Education in the territory and a meeting with mothers of the students of the second grade, kindly agreed to my request to initially talk about the progress of the 2023/2024 School Year in the six weeks that have passed.
“…We managed to start this course with one hundred percent teaching coverage, which has allowed us for the Teaching-Educational Process to develop to date as planned. Regarding school attendance, the Dengue outbreak that affected the community where the school is located has had an impact, as well as Acute Respiratory Infections, especially in Preschool and First Grade. On the other hand, we are training in the projects that includes the III Improvement of the National Education System, which requires effort on the part of all teachers to be able to implement it in the center…”
On my tour through the different areas of the school, I exchanged with Ms. Nancy Ávila Torres, an English teacher with 32 years in this educational institution and with vast experience in the subject, who is assisting Maray Gómez Riquenes, a Foreign Languages student at the Celia Sánchez Manduley School, the one who is in teaching practice and who told me...
“…I did my primary school at this center because I live here in the town of La Alegría and I feel happy that Nancita, as we have always told this excellent teacher, is assisting me during this period because here I received my first English lessons from her and now I return to guide me in this, the first teaching practice that I do..."
To learn about the work of the José Martí Pioneros organization, I spoke with Araís Velázquez Pupo, a Physical Education teacher and Base Guide of the center, who explained to me…
“…The work with the pioneers is going well, the election process was carried out that has served to strengthen their mission, the change of attributes was made in this month of October, which has been full of important anniversaries, special morning sessions, conversations on the example of Che, and we have set up an exhibition for the Camilo Che day, among others…”
During my stay at the “Fermín Rodríguez Díaz” center, Sahara Valdés Alarcón, at the head of the Methodological Team of the General Directorate of Education in our territory, who visited the institution for several days, conducted training for the mothers of the students of the second degree with the objective of training them in the different projects of the III Improvement of the National Education System and increasing the quality of the Educational Teaching Process.
With the hustle and bustle that characterizes a school during recess time and especially the recreational games organized by the educational assistants, fundamentally the one that is in vogue these days, Baseball, I leave convinced that at the La school Joy, joy reigns…
