Challenges for management teams in times of pandemic. Interdisciplinary work in learning communities at secondary education institutions

Abstract

This academic article presents an innovating and relevant pedagogical experience carried out at secondary schools in the central region of the province of Misiones, Argentina, along the lockdown caused by COVID–19 outbreak. The experience deals with a process of virtual training on Project Based Learning addressed by management teams addressed. It was intended to reorganize institutional times and spaces to reconsider schooling paths, ensure pedagogical continuity, and reflect on classroom practices and teaching, learning, and assessment processes in the context of COVID–19 pandemic. The focus was placed on developing and strengthening interdisciplinary work among institutional teams, creating new forms of schooling, generating favorable conditions for secondary level teachers’ continuous training, and meeting the demands of a 21st Century secondary school. It was also intended to create the necessary conditions to build networking skills to stimulate learning communities. The present proposal led to setting up the conditions to improve school inclusion in times of COVID–19 and in subsequent years.