Deped, Spain intensify training for Spanish language tutors

MANILA, Philippines - The Department of Education on Thursday announced that the agency and the government of Spain have lined up a series of capability-building activities for teachers of Spanish in public high schools to further improve their skills on the different aspects of learning and teaching a major foreign language.

The training seminars which will run from April to November this year will be conducted in different venues in Manila, Cebu and Granada, Spain. 

The Special Program in Foreign Language- Spanish is jointly implemented by DepEd, the Ministry of Education of the Government of Spain, Instituto Cervantes, Manila and the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation and Development.

"We welcome these enhancement activities as these will strengthen the capability of our teachers and prime them for globalization," Education Secretary Armin Luistro said.

The participants to these activities are secondary school teachers of the schools implementing the SPFL. 

This year, 35 additional teachers will be trained in Basic Spanish, 26 of them are from newly identified schools while nine are from pilot schools considered as center of excellence.

The summer training course of teachers of SPFL-Spanish runs from April to May 25 at the Instituto Cervantes in Manila. 

The immersion program in Spain will be from July to August either in Salamanca or Granada, Spain. 

It aims to enhance the teachers’ teaching practices by interacting and learning from Spanish language practitioners.

Meanwhile, the professional development course in teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language is scheduled from Oct. 27 to Nov. 1 at the Instituto Cervantes Manila and at the DepEd Ecotech Center in Lahug, Cebu.

The training for the Diplomas for Spanish as a Foreign Language will be from Nov. 4 to 26 in Instituto Cervantes in Manila.