This was my proposal presentation where I had to explain why and how I was going to do my thesis about the time in schools in Barranquilla - Colombia.The time in schools has always been examined as a variable might affect students’ grades; but also it has been seen as factor to contribute with a well built of values and habit in the human being. For decades policy makers have tried to analyze what important role can play in schools. Researchers and academics knowing that all children do not have the same learning skills and for those who need more time to learn and for teacher who need more time to organize and plan classes according levels and handicaps. The influence of the extended learning time on students, teachers and schools are described and the achievement effects associated with the effort done.
The purpose of this research is to know what is the main agents’ perception in schools about the time employee in developing their activities and how an increasing numbers of hours might have a positive impact in the academic performance of students of Colombia. Taking into account that time has been studied for so long as a factor that may influence in development and hence variables necessaries in the educational process teacher – student.

El tiempo en las escuelas siempre se ha sido examinado como una variable que puede podría afectar las calificaciones de los estudiantes, pero también se ve ha visto como un factor que puede para contribuir con un bien construido de los valores y hábitos en el ser humano. Pero además, como mayor espacio para que los niños logren puedan desarrollar en las escuelas habilidades artísticas, culturales, tecnológica, deportivas entre otras más. Durante décadas, los responsables de las políticas de la educación han tratado de analizar el importante papel que puede jugar en las escuelas. Investigadores y académicos a sabiendas de que todos los niños no tienen las mismas habilidades de aprendizaje y para aquellos que necesitan más tiempo para aprender y para el profesor que necesitan más tiempo para organizar y planificar de acuerdo a los niveles de clases. La influencia del tiempo de aprendizaje extendido a los estudiantes, profesores y escuelas se describen y los efectos asociados a los logros con el esfuerzo realizado.


El propósito de esta investigación es conocer cuál es la percepción de los principales agentes de las escuelas, con respecto el tiempo empleado para el desarrollo de sus actividades y la forma como un aumento del número de horas puede tener un impacto positivo en el rendimiento académico de los estudiantes de Colombia. Teniendo en cuenta que el tiempo es una de las variables del proceso educativo docente - alumno y que dicho tiempo se use sea usado en la forma eficaz y apropiada más posible se convierte así en un factor que puede influir en alcanzar la meta de la calidad de la educación.

TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE

From my own experience and my little understanding I think has been very important to review all this issue since make me remember how useful are and how grateful is being a Teacher, sometime we think that to know something is enough to be a teacher but looking back all this issue we saw in this course make us thinks that it is beyond that more complex and more sophisticate than anything in science since we are treating with human being and this make our work unique and complex.

MANAGEMENT EDUCATION

XXI century and globalization have created many challenges for the citizens of the world, imposing new forms of production in open markets, increasingly demanding and competitive. With the arrival of the new millennium, the gates were opened permanently to knowledge, information management and use of new technologies, which in turn imposes the need for all nations, especially those which are developing work towards a culture open to change and think about their future in a different way.

This new reality, marked by economic systems that require the production of new goods, products and services in which knowledge and innovation have increased value, determines the need to develop skills and competencies common to all people compete. But it also puts on the agenda the need to strengthen the uniqueness, difference and cultural identity. The answer to these approaches is the ability that each country has, from education, to develop fully the potential and creativity of every citizen as a source of innovation and collective talents as the main tool for competitiveness.

Second language acquisition (SLA) is a complex and multi-disciplinary field encompassing various domains such as linguistics, socio-linguistics, psycholinguistics, psychology, sociology and education (Ellis, 1994; Gass and Selinker, 2008).

To learn a second language can be very hard and difficult. It takes time where we get involved for whole life and really have to study in order to develop. However, there are many reasons to learn a second language, for instance to be able to communicate with foreigners and to understand other languages, but also to be able to get more work opportunities depending on your language knowledge.

To know more languages always looks good on our CV when we apply for a job.

It could be argued that people who study a second language (L2) often learn it because they have to do it in school, but people also sometimes need languages for other reasons, for example work opportunities or simply because they want to understand foreigners.

But what is a Second Language? When we were young we learnt our first language, L1, that is, our mother tongue. When we learn an additional language, this language is called L2, i.e. our second language.  A second language can also be called a target language (TL), the language we aim to learn, and once we have learnt it, it is no longer a target language.