Ciencias de la Educación

Edición julio 2018

Writing to Learn to Teach in Teaching Education Programs

The current need for teacher education programs to become more responsive to the needs of the communities and mainly to support the preparation of future teachers for the challenges of the classrooms has led to development of reflective practices in their curricula. One way teacher education programs are structuring these [...]

Portfolios Focused on Controversial Issues to Expand Argumentative Writing Skills

This article describes how the implementation of teacher designed portfolios favor the development of students’ argumentative writing skills in English. It presents the main concepts of argumentative writing skills and explains how the implementation of controversial issues contributes to the development of these abilities. Finally, it presents how the teacher-designed [...]