Juan Alejandro Altuve Zerpa
Area: Science
Juan Zerpa has been a teacher for the past 11 years in San Javier del Valle Educational Unit. He works with students between the ages of 14 and 18 years old. The youth groups he works with are usually about 20 students because it is a technical school and is located in a rural area outside of the city. Currently, he is a part of the team of internships and pre-assignments for the students; this team is in charge of contacting the companies and institutions of the community near the school in order to locate the students in jobs that allow them to carry out professional practices. He graduated in 2004 from mechanical engineering and then in 2010 he achieved a Bachelor of Education mention Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Technology, both at the Universidad de Los Andes. His major hobbies are cooking and playing soccer, he also enjoy watching soccer on TV with some friends and family. His greatest blessing is his family; he loves his children and wife. He has two children, they are both boys, the oldest is 14 years old and the youngest is 3 years old. He feels great joy to be able to participate in the TEA program and is very excited to be able to learn new teaching strategies to work with students, and he wants to learn strategies and techniques that allow a more effective and fair evaluation process for young people. Likewise, He hopes to share many of the strategies that he currently applies with his students, making this opportunity a great exchange of ideas and ways to improve our educational systems. In the same way he thinks that it will be very helpful to interact with students and colleagues from other countries, as well as to know the educational system of the United States of America.