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Children Thrive in Rural Colombia's Flexible Schools BY SARA HAMDAN Published: November 10, 2013 Myriam Mazzo is a teacher in the central Colombian city of Armenia, a rural town of about !!,!!! "eo"le nestled in the mountains southwest of #o$ot%& 'n her school(s sin$le classroom, she teaches children of various a$es and $rade levels who wor) in small $rou"s at their own "ace& Rather than standin$ by a blac)board at the front of the class, Ms& Mazzo moves amon$ them, servin$ as a $uide more than an instructor&

*sin$ this method, she has tau$ht $enerations of children, the sons and dau$hters of local farmers and coffee $rowers, to read, write and do math& +er "rimary school students are often amon$ the first in their families ever to have set foot in a classroom&

Ms& Mazzo has used this method of teachin$, )nown as ,scuela -ueva or .-ew School,/ for 01 years after ex"erience teachin$ in a traditional "ublic school in Colombia& The method, develo"ed by Clara 2ictoria 32ic)y4 Colbert de Arboleda in the 567!s, was desi$ned s"ecifically for teachers li)e Ms& Mazzo, teachin$ multi"le $rade levels in one classroom in rural communities&

Ms& Colbert comes from a "rominent Colombian family with a tradition of educational activism& +er mother founded teacher trainin$ colle$es and was a .forward loo)in$ educator,/ she said in an interview, while her $odfather was a former Colombian education minister&

Ms& Colbert tau$ht courses on the sociolo$y of education while studyin$ sociolo$y at the 8averiana *niversity in #o$ot% and then wor)ed $ivin$ distance courses to rural teachers before winnin$ a Ford Foundation scholarshi" to $raduate school at Stanford *niversity, where she studied for master(s de$rees in the sociolo$y of education and com"arative education&

.At Stanford, ' was ex"osed to such wonderful theories and learnin$, so when ' came bac), ' wanted to tac)le basic education and wor) with the "oorest of the "oor schools, the isolated schools,/ she said&

Returnin$ to Colombia, she be$an to wor) with the Ministry of ,ducation in the mid9567!s as a coordinator with rural schools across the country&

:ften teachers in those schools have students who miss school for months at a time, to wor) or for family reasons&

.;ith ,scuela -ueva, the student is a leader, no lon$er the shy )id in a traditional classroom,/ Ms& Mazzo said in a tele"hone interview& .+e(s not the one afraid to s"ea) or share ideas, he is "artici"ative, democratic, )nows how to share and wor) in teams, and < most im"ortantly < he can wor) at his own "ace, so he is motivated to come bac) after lon$ absences&/

'nade=uate resources and low academic achievement usually lead to hi$h dro"out and re"etition rates in traditional schools& 'n the >uind?o re$ion of Colombia, around Armenia, for exam"le, students must overcome not only "overty and a lac) of educational resources but also a culture that encoura$es children to wor) to contribute to a family(s income < and the lure of easy money to be made from dealin$ dru$s&

,scuela -ueva(s flexible "ro$ram encoura$es dro"out students to come bac) to school to study at their own "ace and to ta)e exams when they are ready&

.'f a student learns faster, ' can $uide him and he can $o even faster@ and if a student has difficulties or has been away for a lon$ while, he can be su""orted,/ said Ms& Mazzo& .'f a student is away due to illness or farmer "arents who move around, when he comes bac) to school, he can follow his learnin$ $uides where he left off < so students are motivated, self9esteem stays hi$h, and they never re"eat $rades&/

The ,scuela -ueva(s strate$y also aims to ma)e education more relevant to the students( daily lives and those of their families < ma""in$ the area where they live, for exam"le and learnin$ about the a$ricultural calendar, and the learnin$ and teachin$ materials direct students to share what they learn in school with their families and communities&

Aecades after the model was first develo"ed in 567B, ,scuela -ueva has received su""ort < includin$ financial < from the Colombian $overnment, *nesco and The ;orld #an), and was im"lemented into a national educational "olicy in Colombia in the late 561!s& #y 5611, *nesco declared that Colombia was the only country in Catin America and the Caribbean where rural schools out"erformed urban schools because of the ,scuela -ueva method&

#etween 0!!7 and 0!!6, the "ro$ram tau$ht 7!!,!!! children in Colombia, and the model is now im"lemented in 0!,!!! schools across the country in both rural and "oor urban areas& ,scuela -ueva has now ex"anded internationally to 56 countries, includin$ #razil, the Dhili""ines and 'ndia, benefitin$ more than five million under"rivile$ed children&

Ms& Colbert and the model have won a strin$ of awards over the years, most recently theEB!!,!!! ;'S, Drize for ,ducation awarded by the ;orld 'nnovation Summit for ,ducation in Aoha, >atar in :ctober& The "rize is an annual award, funded by the >atar Foundation for Science, ,ducation and Community Aevelo"ment, that reco$nizes innovative contributions to international education&

.;hen you see these isolated, invisible schools, why wait for bi$ educational to"9down reform from the $overnmentF/ said Ms& Colbert, while in Aoha to receive the "rize& .;e started the fire from the bottom u", by ma)in$ small chan$es in classrooms and wor)in$ with rural teachers to im"rove morale, results and resources&/

The method transforms the conventional learnin$ "aradi$m where the teacher is the only one tal)in$ and conveyin$ information in a classroom& The idea is that students are "laced in the center of the learnin$ "rocess& ;hile the "hiloso"hy is not new, its a""lication in a low9cost way in rural communities by Ms& Colbert(s team is revolutionary&

.Can you ima$ine a child who leaves and is forced to re"eat a $rade level every time he comes bac)F/ she said& .;here(s the self9esteemF So we desi$ned learnin$ materials that "romote self9"aced learnin$ and a flexible schedule, because what we had before in our schools sim"ly wasn(t wor)in$&/

.Chan$e won(t ta)e "lace u" in some office, it has to ta)e "lace ri$ht on the $round&/

A version of his !r i"le !##e!rs in #rin on November 11, 2013, in $he %n ern! ion!l Ne& Yor' $imes(

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