Systematization of pedagogical experiences in the EFL teaching training program

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Abstract:This work deals with systematizing pedagogical experiences obtained from the EFL Teaching Training Program within the Basic General Education (E) and the Unified General Bachillerato (BGU) levels. The systematization has the purpose to analyze and reflect on the internship teaching experience in order to determine the key learning and those aspects to work on in the professional field. The methodological framework used was the qualitative approach through experience systematization. This was done in three stages: i) observation of classes given by expert teachers, ii) Practicum 1 with supervised teaching practice, and iii) Practicum 2 with teaching practice exercises. The documentation obtained includes observation guides, reflective journals, lesson plans, field notes, and self-evaluation rubrics. The most relevant conclusion was that to teach EFL it is necessary to know and have pedagogical versatility that is flexible to the needs of the students in terms of cognition, in other words, it should take them from the concrete to the abstract while using a variety of methods CLIL, project-based learning, and communications strategies, and even both professional and academic skills.