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Objective: This paper aims at describing a set of tasks and an analytical rating scale to evaluate the student's performance in English speaking skills at the university level. Methods: To achieve this objective empirical and theoretical methods were used, as well as, mixed-methods which include qualitative and quantitative paradigms. Results: As the main finding, a task proposal was done to evaluate speaking skill, which is made up of three parts and includes both production and interaction. Similarly, an analytical rating scale was developed, based on the descriptors of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, adapted to the Cuban context. Conclusions: This paper has shown that task design and rating scale development are processes that comprise deep literature review several rounds of revisions and reformulation until getting high-quality products. It has also opened a path on tasks design and rating scales development in Cuba based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

This paper aims at identifying the main key competencies and indicators of the didactic‐methodological dimension of the English‐to be‐teachers in Camaguey. The theoretical systematization was used to build a rationale off the didactic‐methodological dimension. An analysis of the English syllabuses was carried out to evaluate how the competencies and indicators are implied in the formative process. A survey to first‐year students was used to examine how the Integrated English lessons impact on their didactic‐methodological training. The main result of the paper has to deal with the didactic instrumentation of the key competencies and indicators in the language classroom.

ABSTRACT The paper describes a proposal of professional pedagogical performance tests to assess teachers’ role in the process of developing the skill of working with algorithms in Linear Algebra. It aims at devising a testing tool to assess teachers’ performance in the skill-developing process. This tool is a finding of Cuba theory of Advanced Education, systematically used in recent years. The findings include the test design and the illustration of its use in a sample of 22 Linear Algebra teachers during the first term of the 2017-2018 academic year at Informatics Sciences Engineering major. Keywords: ABSTRACT The paper describes a proposal of professional pedagogical performance tests to assess teachers’ role in the process of developing the skill of working with algorithms in Linear Algebra. It aims at devising a testing tool to assess teachers’ performance in the skill-developing process. This tool is a finding of Cuba theory of Advanced Education, systematically used in recent years. The findings include the test design and the illustration of its use in a sample of 22 Linear Algebra teachers during the first term of the 2017-2018 academic year at Informatics Sciences Engineering major.

The paper describes the findings of a research intended to foster the communicative competence of first year students of bachelors in Education and Language Teaching. The study of the bibliography allows the construction of a framework related to the integration of knowledge, by examining documents it was possible to establish the integrative nucleus, and modeling allows the design of the proposal, whereas the procedures of the action-research approach lead the practical introduction of the proposal and controlling its results. The paper offers the integrative nucleus for communicative competence training, the definition and proposition of comprehensive lesson needed to pursue it and the impact of the proposal on a sample of students with low levels of communicative competence. Keywords:verbal communication, language instruction, language skills, language enrichment.

El presente artículo tiene como propósito exponer los aspectos esenciales de una estrategia de orientación vocacional para la elaboración de proyectos personales de vida, diseñada a partir de la valoración de fundamentos teóricos pertinentes, del análisis histórico-tendencial de la orientación vocacional en la República del Ecuador, de la caracterización del proceso de elaboración de proyectos personales de vida en diversos bachilleratos en el período 2011-2012 y de la fundamentación del modelo de orientación vocacional para la elaboración de proyectos personales de vida en el bachillerato ecuatoriano. La propuesta de una estrategia con estas características es el resultado fundamental descrito en este artículo This paper aims to value essential aspects of a strategy to develop life projects, designed from the assessment of relevant theoretical foundations, the analysis of the historical trend of vocational guidance in the Republic of Ecuador, characterization of the process life projects design of senior high schools students during 2011-2012 school year and the modeling of vocational guidance for the development of personal projects constructed by the authors. The proposal of strategy corresponding to that model is the main finding described in the paper.

The paper argues the key role of ICT in autonomous learning of physics. The use of eb didactic materials in guiding autonomous learning in Cuban Higher Education is examined together with and account of autonomous learning guiding tasks in progress under the auspice of “Enrique José Varona” Center for Science of Education at the University of Camagüey. Likewise, the experience of the Physics Department in designing web didactic materials by means of Exelearning software is described. The standards being used in Physics courses and the features characterizing the Physics Web Didactics for Physics II are fully explained. The paper closes with the finding of the test given to a group of Electric Engineering second year students in 2012-2013 academic years. Key words: autonomous learning, web didactic materials, learning design, learning standards, learning of physics

The paper is intended to examine the epistemological development of the theory or systems, focus the change of its scientific paradigm and points out its main implications for the development of research methodology and design. The theoretical methods being used makes possible to go deeper into the analysis of regularities and essential qualities in the construction and development of the scientific theory. The system approach is one of the most frequently used method and the one of further reaching effect in Pedagogy. The system approach or systemic thinking is a requirement for the general direction of pedagogy problem studies. This paper explores the ways of interconnecting the theory of systems to the theory of complexity in the field of pedagogy. The findings include a historical approach to the theory of systems up to the spring up of the theory of complexity. Key words: general theory of systems, interdisciplinary relations, complexity.

The paper describes the results of a theoretical research on the teacher’s role in videoconferencing in educational contexts, particularly at the university. The research was aimed at providing a didactic guidance to teachers using videoconferencing as a material aid in learning activities contributing to innovative processes in teaching. Interviewing personnel related to the Information Technology and Communications (ICT) in the teaching process and webmasters was quite a helpful device for gathering information. This paper is part of an ongoing scientific research conducted by the staff of Computing and Communications Department and (DICOM) at "José Martí” College of Education. The paper describes the use of videoconferencing as an educational resource, and ways to use it, the actions to be taken by the teacher before, during, and after using videoconferencing, its main applications in the teaching-learning process, and the role of the actors involved in order to promote a positive thinking on students and teachers. The proposal was appraised in a workshop where participants agree with authors suggestions related to potentials, advantages and teacher’s role. Keywords: videoconferencing, teaching-learning, process, information technology and communications devices.

The paper describes the professional training of Bachelors in Primary Education in school functioning as university divisions. The paper’s objective is to suggest a system of actions to improve leadership and management of these institutions from the perspective of integrating the process of educating children, training professionally the pre-service teacher, and self-developing in-service teachers. Modelling the roll of the institution as a university division was the main result of the research; it includes the system of actions to be developed by pre-service teachers and ways for controlling them. Key words: Teachers’ education, tutorial, professional training.

Objective: This paper focuses on the process of developing receptive skills tasks aligned with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) for the English proficiency certification in Cuban Higher Education. Methods: Qualitative methods were chosen to gain insights into theoretical and practical aspects of certification tests. A collaborative-responsive approach, alongside the expertise of participants, allowed developing basic documents for task development. Further, regional group collaboration and online working to develop tasks and feedback rounds were used as an iterative process. Results: The results provide useful insights into practical aspects of the task development process of the receptive skills for the Cuban certification test. Conclusions: The assessment materials produced for task development using the CEFR as reference were crucial to ensure the development of listening and reading tasks in line with international standards to certify students’ English proficiency in Cuban universities. The challenges faced allow task developers not only to recognize which aspects must be paid special attention to when developing receptive skills tasks but also to adapt to the changes resulting from the new assessment practices.

El artículo constituye un acercamiento a la visión martiana sobre la jardinería, temática aún poco estudiada. Se revelan las fuentes bibliográficas en las que realizó sus lecturas sobre botánica y floricultura como sus fuentes nutricias para escribir sobre las flores y la jardinería. En el artículo se recogen interesantes comentarios de Martí acerca de los estilos jardineros y ornamentación de diferentes culturas, pues no se puede negar el hecho de que Martí vivió en tiempos de auge en el rito, uso, cultivo y reproducción de las flores y la jardinería, por ello casi todos sus escritos aparecen matizados por las referencias que hace a las flores, el tema es tan persistente que emerge en él, como un rasgo esencial la idea de que “donde la naturaleza tiene flores, el cerebro las tiene también” (Martí Pérez, J. , 1975, Volumen 19. Pág 84). ABSTRACT The paper approaches José Martí vision of gardening, a rather unstudied topic. It discloses the bibliographic sources of his reading related to botanic and flower cultivation. The paper gathers interesting remarks made by Martí about the garden styles and ornamentation from different cultural visions. It is impossible to deny the fact that he lived in times of a boom of using, cultivating and reproduction of flowers and gardening, that explains the recurrence of flowers in his literary production. The topic is so persistent that he once declares ¨where the nature has flowers, so the mind does¨.

En Cuba la Revolución y la educación son una misma cosa, sin una es imposible la otra. Se delimitan las tres grandes revoluciones educacionales con una caracterización de las mismas, en estas revoluciones un lugar destacado lo ha desempeñado los maestros y educadores quienes con sus accionar cotidiano han escritos hitos importantes del desarrollo de la educación y han contribuido a la construcción del socialismo en Cuba, se ofrece la definición de revolución educacional. Al realizar el diagnóstico a estudiantes de la carrera de Marxismo-Leninismo e Historia de la Universidad de Ciencias Pedagógicas "José Martí" de Camagüey se pudo constatar el insuficiente dominio del papel desempeñado por los maestros y profesores en las diferentes revoluciones educacionales, así como desconocimiento de la contribución realizada por los educadores de la institución al cumplimiento de las disímiles tareas educacionales que han contribuido al desarrollo de la Revolución. El artículo elaborado tiene como objetivo ofrecer el método de identificación afectiva con los educadores paradigmáticos para con su utilización recoger la presencia de los educadores de la UCP "José Martí" en tareas priorizadas del desarrollo educacional y a la construcción del socialismo en Cuba, lo novedoso del método es la relación hito-protagonista paradigma con quien se identifican los estudiantes de carreras pedagógicas y a la vez se estimulan desde lo afectivo a la realización de investigaciones dirigidas al conocimiento de la historia de la educación en la institución. Abstract In Cuba, Revolution and education are overlapping processes, one might be impossible without the other. Three educational revolutions are identified and characterized in the paper; a definition for the term is given. Likewise, the role of teachers and educators contributing to the construction of socialism is discussed. After diagnosing pupils being trained as teachers of Marxism-Leninism and History, the lack of knowledge of the role of teachers and their contribution the educational program of the Revolution was revealed. This paper is aimed at describing the method of emotional commitment to paradigm of educators. This method helps to account the enrolment of professor of José Martí" College of Education in the task of doing a revolution in education and constructing socialism in Cuba. The novelty of the method is the revelation of the connection between landmarks and protagonists, a person who teachers´ trainees take as a paradigm in building their own personality and as the object of study in history of education research process they are carrying out.

In Cuba, Revolution and education are overlapping processes, one might be impossible without the other. Three educational revolutions are identified and characterized in the paper; a definition for the term is given. Likewise, the role of teachers and educators contributing to the construction of socialism is discussed. After diagnosing pupils being trained as teachers of Marxism-Leninism and History, the lack of knowledge of the role of teachers and their contribution the educational program of the Revolution was revealed. This paper is aimed at describing the method of emotional commitment to paradigm of educators. This method helps to account the enrolment of professor of José Martí” College of Education in the task of doing a revolution in education and constructing socialism in Cuba. The novelty of the method is the revelation of the connection between landmarks and protagonists, a person who teachers’ trainees take as a paradigm in building their own personality and as the object of study in history of education research process they are carrying out.

The paper approaches José Martí vision of gardening, a rather unstudied topic. It discloses the bibliographic sources of his reading related to botanic and flower cultivation. The paper gathers interesting remarks made by Martí about the garden styles and ornamentation from different cultural visions. It is impossible to deny the fact that he lived in times of a boom of using, cultivating and reproduction of flowers and gardening, that explains the recurrence of flowers in his literary production. The topic is so persistent that he once declares ¨where the nature has flowers, so the mind does¨.

This paper describes the pedagogical approach to José Martí´s aesthetical ideas from current axiological and pedagogical perspective, It takes into account that aesthetical guidance is always present in all interrelation between an individual and its peers, an individual and nature and society. The topic is relevant as far as it offers the necessary keys for the aesthetic education in primary teaching, according the principles of Cuban social project based on Martian’s principles of the usefulness of virtue, world’s balance and the culture of doing politics. The paper derives from the results of scientific research Pedagogical model for Primary Teaching in the Vocational School of Art “Luis Casas Romero” of Camagüey province, which has proved to be valid in educational practice.

El presente artículo devela el tratamiento pedagógico de algunas ideas estéticas de José Martí, a la luz de las concepciones axiológicas y pedagógicas de actualidad, teniendo en cuenta que la orientación estética está presente en toda interrelación hombre-hombre, hombre-naturaleza y hombre-sociedad. El tema resulta de gran importancia porque ofrece las claves necesarias para la educación estética en la Enseñanza Primaria, en correspondencia con los principios del proyecto social cubano, que son también los principios martianos de la utilidad de la virtud, del equilibrio del mundo y de la cultura de hacer política. El artículo es fruto del resultado científico Modelo Pedagógico para la Enseñanza Primaria de la Escuela Vocacional de Arte “Luis Casas Romero”, de Camagüey, de probados resultados en la práctica educativa. ABSTRACT This paper describes the pedagogical approach to José Martí´s aesthetical ideas from current axiological and pedagogical perspective, It takes into account that aesthetical guidance is always present in all interrelation between an individual and its peers, an individual and nature and society. The topic is relevant as far as it offers the necessary keys for the aesthetic education in primary teaching, according the principles of Cuban social project based on Martian’s principles of the usefulness of virtue, world’s balance and the culture of doing politics. The paper derives from the results of scientific research Pedagogical model for Primary Teaching in the Vocational School of Art “Luis Casas Romero” of Camagüey province, which has proved to be valid in educational practice.

Objective: This research paper analyzes how oral guided tour exercises help to achieve better oral communication in German, while putting in practice the oral productions descriptors for the B1 Common Reference Level (sustained monologue), describing an experience, giving information and Addressing audiences, taking into account speaking primary aspects such as fluency, grammar, vocabulary, cohesion, and coherence. Methods: A bibliographical study was carried out in the English Language Major at Universidad de Oriente including German as Second Foreign Language. The analysis-synthesis and hermeneutic methods were used to evaluate the sources and to point out the main aspects of oral production and communicative skills in German, to make valuable interpretations around these processes. A descriptive study with a qualitative approach was also developed using the interview, and the observation techniques. The interview was applied to Curriculum D second-year students, during the 2019-2020 academic year of the English Language Major of the Universidad de Oriente. Results: The results reflect that students were able to fulfill the descriptors of the communicative strategies at the B1 level stated within the design of the exercises. Conclusions: The exercises based on the oral guided tour characteristic allow developing the communicative production strategy descriptors for the B1 common reference level (sustained monologue). They strengthened the professional sphere related to international tourism of the English Language Major, where the future professionals would be language and cultural mediators in English and German.

El artículo ofrece una mirada a los escritos pedagógicos de J. E. Pestalozzi desde una perspectiva histórico-cultural que permite identificar puntos de vistas coincidentes sobre la educación, la enseñanza y el desarrollo. Se trata de una mirada a las ideas pedagógicas esenciales contenidas en “Cómo Gertrudis enseña a sus hijos” y su comparación con las tesis principales de la teoría histórico cultural de L. S. Vigotsky. De igual forma se comenta el grado en que dichas ideas encuentran un espacio real en la práctica pedagógica actual. ABSTRACT The paper examines J. E. Pestalozzi’s pedagogical writings from a historic-cultural perspective which allows recognizing a similar understanding of education, teaching and development. It is an overall view of pedagogical ideas described in “How Gertrude Teaches Her Children” as compare to the fundamental theses of the historic cultural theory of L. S. Vigotsky. The paper also examines the importance of these ideas for today’s educational practice.

The paper describes the findings of a biblio-metric research of Transformación corpus aimed at the knowledge of the main sources consulted by the authors and its correspondence to the main contribution of the scientific community to the development of pedagogical sciences in Cuba. The total number of issues and articles published between 2011 and 2013 were selected as sample. 933 consulted works were studied and the references were grouped into belonging and not-belonging to campus’ authors. Likewise, the papers refers to the number of Ph. D. and master dissertations, research reports and pedagogical journal articles used as references. Finally, the findings were correlated to the selection of books suggested by Chávez, Deler y Suárez in “La actualidad de la pedagogía y la didáctica en Cuba” (2009). Key words: Biliometry, biblio-metric indicators, bibliography refences.

The paper is aimed at describing a theoretical framework for improving the pedagogical professional performance of teachers in Angola. The study relies on methods such as analysis‐synthesis, inductiondeduction processes and document analysis. The main finding is a pattern for teacher improvement involving didactic performance and self‐development and professional growth.

Nowadays, higher education in Cuba demands the improvement of the teaching process, particularly in classroom daily activities. Problem‐based learning (PBL) is a widely spread as a valuable learning tool focused on facing students to real professional situations and tasks. The aim of this paper is to show the effectiveness of the method in the subject Drawing, taking into consideration a new conceptualization and a sequence of steps for the application of PBL in the teaching process. The research was carried out using theoretical methods, particularly, analysis‐synthesis and documental revision as well as the empirical methods such as the observation of the teaching‐learning process. Additionally, some diagnostic tests were given before and after the implementation of PBL. The students’ answers to these questionnaires proved that PBL improves the interpreting skill needed for solving graphic problems in the teaching of engineering.

The paper describes the impact of Meeting with Sophia project, a space for philosophical debate intended to promoting motivating activities towards the study of philosophy. The point of departure was the diagnosis of law students’ needs, topics of interest and the space for the debates. The immediate antecedent of the project was a five‐year approach to teaching philosophy integrating instruction, education and extracurricular activities. The findings of the survey given to the students show a high level of satisfaction. The students design software and upload project contents to the intranet.

The paper is aimed at describing the improvement opportunities in mathematics primary classrooms resulting from the experimental introduction of the SIC model (sense‐intervention‐closing). This Model involves a feedback methodology based on the analysis of critical events that pre‐service teachers developed under tutor’s guidance. A descriptive qualitative study was carried out by means of semi‐structured interviews to primary teacher trainees at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso. The findings show that the feedback received from the model allowed reflection, self‐regulation of their practices, and in‐depth analysis of their actions in the area of mathematics leading to the improvement of teaching procedures. The role of the tutor proved to be a key to success in a process where critical events, technical, didactic and professional aspects were interwoven.

The paper aims at describing a student booklet using architectural drawings and graphics as a didactic tool in support of the teaching process of architect trainees. A theoretical framework explains architectural concepts, patterns and professional documents, collected from reference documents and interviews to professors and employers. The aim is to face trainees’ shortcoming in working graphic representation and projects. The finding is a booklet describing patterns, architectural drawing notions. The booklet is a guide to trainees for project design in construction, and remodeling of buildings.

The paper aims at describing a set of indicators to evaluate the quality of the courses supported on the Moodle platform, whose relevance was confirmed by induction‐deduction, the use of a rating scale, observation, methodological reflection workshops and techniques of descriptive statistics. The proposed system is not only a tool for self‐evaluation in the process of devising the courses in the Moodle platform of the University of Camagüey, but also a challenge to transform teaching methods and procedures; this is a question that requires advisors, managers and teachers’ attention.

This paper shows the results of a historical-epistemological analysis that points out the practices performed by Poincaré (1890), Lorenz (1963) and May (1974) in their encounter with chaotic dynamics, we are interested in their argumentations against the erratic (coming from unexpected events), in the transit between the predictable and unpredictable; we assume that the way to act in this kind of situations indicates a way to build specialized mathematical knowledge. Socioepistemological approach methods were applied to search the practices associated with mathematical concepts processing: temporal recurrence, sensitivity to initial conditions and parameter graphics. The findings show that searching the circular, comparing solutions over time and classifying behaviors are practices that give meaning to this kind of situations and are part of an a priori analysis that provides elements for the characterization of a form of variational thinking to face the unexpected. This study provides elements for the construction of a situation that presents unexpected cases, facilitates to study cases of actions in pre-university students and will serve as a guide for the creation of specific examples that allow their integration at school.

The paper describes the results of a case study aimed at developing the competence to promoting positive assessment of mathematics in primary school teachers under training. The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness a pedagogical strategy aimed at developing such competence during the teaching practice as organized at “Salomé Ureña” College of Education in San Juan de la Maguana province, Dominican Republic. For the case study the Yin typology was assumed, and the type of multiple cases, the embedded design was selected for evaluating the two variants of the strategy. To evaluate the effectiveness of the training, four dimensions were defined and different techniques were selected: participant observation, portfolio analysis, evaluation of teaching practice, reflective workshops, among others. The findings allowed to conclude that the performance relative to the first level of the competition was reached, as well as actions on the family and the context, corresponding to the third level for both variants matemática educativa, formación inicial de docentes, formación profesional, educación basada en competencias.

This paper highlights the historical trends of high school Physical Education teachers’ improvement in Colombia. The objective is to assess the historical evolution of professional development and level of professional skills attained by Physical Education high-school. The historical-logical, inductive-deductive and analytical-synthetic methods were used based on the use of the following indicators: the policies established for the improvement of teachers; the ways instituted for the improvement of teachers; how the improvement of Physical Education teachers is designed; the educational models for the teaching of Physical Education and the improvement professional competences in the Physical Education in Colombia. The main finding is the identification historical trends mentioned above, describing the level of development achieved in each period and the features that characterized the professional performance of teachers at all times.

The objective of this paper is to devise an alternative procedure to improve the teaching-learning process of Marxist Leninist philosophy. The study was carried out in a summer course intended to professional lawyer’s directives at the School of Politics of Camaguey. This procedure is characterized by the use of methods that promote students’ problem thinking. Several methods were used, such, as: documents analysis, lesson observation, the reflective workshop, and the Wilcoxon test. The effectiveness of procedure was assessed by using the pre-experimental methods during three consecutive courses. The finding proved to be feasible.

This paper is aimed at describing a model for schoolteacher coaching. The research training present work aims to propose a management model of pedagogical accompaniment for elementary school teachers. Theoretical methods were used to back up the proposal and modeling to devise the coaching system just mentioned. The research findings include the description of the system components, and the three dimensions used in coaching teacher at Dominican Republic 10th district, as well as, the relations connecting these dimensions intended to pursue professional training of schoolteachers.

The paper is aimed to contextualizing humanist education in history teachers’ training from a social and cultural perspective to favors the graduates' humanist performance. A dialectical-materialistic focus was given to the scientific methods, among them analysis and criticism of sources —integrating logical thinking procedures such as induction-deduction, analysis-synthesis and moving from abstract to the concrete perception one—, the hermeneutic-dialectical and the systemic-structural-functional approaches, as well as modeling triangulation of sources, methods, and theories. Modeling is structured according to the relationships that exist between the processes structuring the humanist identity content of education, to foster a comprehensive contextual as the main finding of the research.

The paper describes the findings of a research aimed at assessing the importance of creating a culture of error during the process of teacher training. A framework was devised to back up the idea that the didactics of natural sciences serves may take advantage of the treatment of cognitive errors and their causes. Modeling is used in the design of the proposal, as well as procedures specific to action research to carried out the experimental introduction and controlling the results. The findings include the aforementioned framework and examples illustrating how to work with the cognitive errors from the teaching-learning process when studying the didactics of mathematics and physics.

A comprehensive education attempts to foster students to be industrious, responsible, friendly, independent, innovative, sensible, and determined. This paper aims at describing a formative project devised at Enrique Jose Varona Senior High School in Holguín City. The project engaged the students in creating El Varona dice newspaper, stimulating social research activity, reporting and preparing articles as means of developing vocational aptitudes towards journalism, history, social and educational sciences. After constructing the corresponding framework critical workshops, individual and group interviews were used as methods of inquiring. The main finding was a formative project that leads to designing and publishing a college newspaper. The students’ newspaper brought a change of attitudes on the part of the students in relation to labor activity, self-education and value education, as well as its extension to other senior high schools. Keywords:

This paper approaches competent professional training as an alternative university competency-based education. The objective of the article is to analyze the competent formation of librarians and information sciences professionals from three different perspectives: the socio educative dimension, the curricular and didactic dimension and the professional attitudes. Several methods were used to complete the research: a curricular didactic conception was constructed to back up the curriculum of librarians and information sciences professionals trained at Ecuadorian universities. The findings outline the importance of the competency-based education at the majors just mentioned; highlight the relation between the socio-educative dimension, the curricular and didactic dimension and the professional attitudes leading the researchers to arrive at the conclusion that this three-fold dimension model fosters the integration technological social and university demands.

The paper deals with the enrichment of the English lexicon by students of university technical majoring. The starting point is the establishment of intertextual relationships from the free voluntary reading of authentic texts related to this area of knowledge to favor the development of vocabulary in English so as to enable the students to carry out academic, scientific and pre-professional tasks in the foreign language. From this perspective, a didactic strategy is offered to synthesize the phases and techniques to achieve this goal.

In Cuba education is considered as social welfare and constitutes one of its fundamental purposes of development, this explains the permanent effort to improve its quality. On the basis of these transformations, the curriculum has evolved to meet the expectation of society at each period, such improvement led to include urban issues in the curriculum. This paper is aimed at describing the effect of introducing urban issues into the subject Urban and Architectural Design IV as a component of the comprehensive issues. The research was carried out from the perspective of the systemic structural and functional method to achieve a comprehensive approach to the analysis. Observation, field inquiries, and framework construction were used as supporting methods. The main finding is a new subject arrangement coordinating all year subject contribution intended to highlight the relation between the city and the architecture students’ learning process as a professional training.

The education of students with behavior disorders a challenge for all the countries, teacher improvement and specialization has been an alternative to the Cuban system of education to face it. The paper is aimed at describing the framework of the strategy to train school phycologists to meet the needs of such students. The study starts by identifying their background theoretical and procedural knowledge in the field and issues related to their professional practice. These findings lead to devising a specializing strategy to train psychologist to apply a multidisciplinary approach based on advanced education methodology in their professional performance when interacting and coaching students with behavior disorders.

ABSTRACT This paper describes partial results of a research on the understanding of algebraic problems in the secondary level of the Dominican Republic, where the current state of this problem is characterized in public schools in the country with the objective of offering a didactic approach. The research was carried out with the use of methods of the theoretical level, in particular, the analysis-synthesis and the documentary revision, as well as empirical methods. For the characterization, the indicators of teaching planning dimensions, execution of teaching-learning the process of the understanding of algebraic problems and analysis of the performance of the students in the understanding of algebraic problems are established. From this characterization, a methodological strategy was designed as a solution to the problem described. Keywords: problem-solving, abstract thinking, instructional design, teaching method.

This paper is aimed at the development of the communication skills of teachers’ trainees as a component of their professional performance, particularly in socializing with their colleagues, other educational agents, parents, and students. A theoretical framework describing specific competences is devised, the focus is centered on the sociocultural dimension and the demands of the school environment. The study goes from a theoretical approach to exploring the actual level of trainees’ communicative competence. The findings illustrate alternatives for fostering communication skills, namely the sociocultural dimension. Keywords:

Professional competence development is a current concern of educational systems over the world, usually influenced by the educational practice issues such as cognitive process and students thinking and intended to improve teachers’ curricular education. This paper is aimed at promoting discussion by devising a framework related to the teaching procedures of math. The study was completed by examining Ph. D. dissertation, journal articles and the Ministry of Education directives. The findings lead the author to the conclusion that even though the Dominican Educational System has witnessed significant achievements, there are still shortcomings to be faced, particularly in relation to teachers’ acquaintance with concepts of the didactics of mathematics favoring a dynamic approach to science and teaching.

ABSTRACT This paper describes the metaphorical approach and how it relates to the development of mathematical thinking, to make improvements in the training of nursery educators. We present an experience with the Shao Yong square, which allows the integration of the metaphorical approach with the development of mathematical thinking, where we study the construction of the concept number with nursery school educators. The proposal highlights methodological strategies and provides as a framework for reading, discussing and pedagogical reflection. Information is provided for innovative classroom teachers of classroom fostering the understanding and teaching of mathematics. Keywords:

This paper aims to back up the concept of virtual classrooms in Biology and Chemistry courses as a contribution to the reflective learning of biological contents, methods of theoretical, empirical and mathematical, statistical levels were used. As a result, five virtual classrooms corresponding to the subjects Microbiology, Zoology I, Zoology II, Ecological Genetics II and Biodiversity were structured. These consist of resources such as files, archives, and URL, as well as different activities (forum, homework, quiz, glossary, and Wiki). 133 tasks designed to address shortcomings in learning from the different activities of the virtual environment were developed, in which reflexive, evaluative, interdisciplinary and dialogic aspects prevail. The seminar, practical activities and study guides are also offered to increase, the quality of the student’s study activities. The experimental introduction of the proposal in the second, a fourth and fifth year of the course evidence its effectiveness, expressed in reflective nature of learning and the students’ satisfaction

Teachers’ education requires a high level of development of professional competencies. However, the academic component is usually predominant in such approaches that favor the learning of the language structure, its corresponding theory and drilling to fix knowledge of this theory. This paper aims at devising a didactic strategy focusing a professional approach to Linguistic Studies of the English Language. The study starts by constructing a theoretical framework to turn linguistic research methods, first, into language learning tools and then into teaching tools. Teacher trainees’ lessons were supervised to evaluate the achievement of such a conversion. The main finding is the devised strategy.

This paper describes freshmen’s limitations in the command of socio-cultural term. These shortcomings constitute a barrier for an efficient communication in the foreign language of teachers’ trainees of English, particularly in the discipline History of the Culture of Anglophone Peoples from the third year on. Departing from systematized course experience, new ways to approach foreign culture study are explored enhancing the acquisition of the associated metalanguage from the first years of the initial training. Thus, the Panorama of the Culture of Anglophone Countries course was designed. Its conception lies on the task-based approach from the didactic point of view and the use of a glossary, which favored the use of specialized vocabulary and the development of the students' sociocultural competence. Keywords: language development, intercultural communication, task-based approach

To develop students’ reading competence impliesexploring what they know to do with language while facing the process of reading. Text comprehension involves theuse of different strategies to become competent readers. This process presupposes questioning the text and anticipating possible interpretations. This paper aims at devising a teaching distinguishing before, during and after reading activities to overcome students’ shortcomings in text comprehension. The research was carried out by systematizing experiences, focusing on teaching practice and observation. The main finding is the devised strategy.

The major in English Language was inaugurated in 2005 in the University of Camagüey, starting with the improved Syllabus “C”. Prevailing conditions in the Cuban economy cause that literature for teaching the vast number of students in higher education to become a critical issue for the teaching-learning process. Nonetheless, with the ever-increasing existence of computers, laptops, and tablets, the number of computer labs in schools, and the Youth Computer Clubs in neighborhoods, to provide computer products for independent study is one of the solutions to the aforementioned problem of literature. Out of this reality, there emerged the idea of developing a computer program as a teaching aid for the subject History of the English Speaking People (Great Britain), which will not only offer the contents for studying but also exercises to help assimilate these contents. The program was used in the second semester of the 15-16 school term with good results as exposed in this paper. Keywords: Foreign languages, IT, independent study, CALL

The paper describes the findings of study aimed at identifying the goals of Latin American and Caribbean education in the early years of the 21st century. The use of the comparative method, on which this study was based, supported by other methods of the theoretical level, such as analysis-synthesis, induction-deduction, and documentary analysis made possible the fulfillment of the pursued objective. The main sources of information were documents related to educational legislation in 16 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, promulgated or updated between 1991 and 2016. The findings lead to conclude that theeducation goals of Latin America and the Caribbean are expressed from two general perspectives: 1) as the "expectations that educating individuals must turn into reality as personal development (hominization), a coherent relationship with the human social environment in which it develops (socialization), and the development of its capacity to create culture and to live within a cultural environment and; b) as "strategic contributions that education must do "to contribute to the improvement of society, in a specific socio-historical context. Accordingly, it became evident that education attempts to achieve a larger pertinencein facing current challenges in the context of a globalized world.

This paper aims to propose a management model of postgraduate activity to favor regional development. The researcher is providing the components of the model and their corresponding functions by using the functional structural systemic method. The model consists of three subsystems and was successfully introduced while organizing Manabí Polytechnic and agricultural university. The components of each subsystem are fully described, the intention is to set the guidelines for coordinating local universities efforts to impact on regional development. Keywords: human development, sustainable development, community education

Teaching students to self-controlling their performance is an essential task of Special Pedagogy due to its role in shaping personality, particularly self-appraising, independence, self-control and self-awareness, usually affected in students with special educative needs. This paper refers essential features characterizing aggressive behavior and lack of self-control and proposes a socio-educative strategy to allow students to achieve self-control. The reliability of the proposed socio-educative strategy was assessed by means of workshops in postgraduate activities; research methods include constructing a corresponding framework, observation, interviewing and control experiments. The improvement in self-monitoring aggressiveness proved the effectiveness of the proposal.

This paper describes the mental representation of Mathematics shared byengineering students in propaedeutic courses. From the theoretical point of view, the social representations are assumed as a particular form of knowledge that-is expressed in the behaviors and communication among individuals. It has been studied as a process and content, leading to the recognition of stereotypes, opinions, beliefs, values and norms. It is a study of exploratory, quantitative and qualitative type, with an inductive logic, where the structure and content of social representations present in the study are analyzed. The findings listed metaphors used in the symbolic setting of individual explanation of mathematics, assessed the impact of subjectivity in learning, and recorded engineering student’sexpectations in relation to studying mathematics.