The infant and primary school "Tierno Galván" in the town, along with 25 other schools in the region of Murcia, provide bilingual education in English from September of next school year 2009/10, as has informed the Councillor for Education, Trini Cayuela.
In this way, the council recalled that this year will double the number of schools and Primary Education who taught bilingual education in the region, so that one of every ten will be bilingual, and the town centers offer this type educational "Luis Pérez Rueda, who initiated this project last year, and" Tierno Galván.
The last course was launched this initiative for the first time in the region, with implementation in 25 schools in the region that began in September bilingual education in English, thanks to the Bilingual Schools Murcia, with more than a thousand freshmen receive a third of their classes in this language.
The next school year, this program will be launched in 26 other bilingual schools responding, as explained by the Councillor for Education, who said the regional government's intention is to ensure that the Region has the best facilities and the best educational able to educate citizens who can cope successfully in the XXI century.
The news of the call for this year have focused on strengthening and improving the effectiveness of teacher training and in assessing the commitment of schools to the program, said the mayor, noting that it has taken into account the willingness of teachers to remain in the center at least the first two years of implementing the bilingual program, in order to ensure stability in student learning.
As for the preparation of teachers to be teaching subjects in English, has increased the time allocated to theoretical training (to be held in Murcia CPRII 3 to June 30), from 100 to 120 hours so that you can delve deeper into the contents, and that teachers mainly improve communicative competence in foreign languages, learning new teaching methods, and technical theater and entertainment, to implement them later in class with their students.
