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Tesis de maestría English teachers’ journals: from description to reflection and development in Mexican public basic education(2015-12) Rojas Rivera, Ivan; ROJAS RIVERA, IVAN; 545863“In Mexico, educational reform movements are setting ambitious goals for students learning in the last decade. Even though English Language Teaching (ELT) in basic public education was implemented very recently in some of the states of Mexico including Puebla, changes in classroom practices demanded by the reform have been requiring the professionalization of English language teachers. According to Borko (2004) changes of this magnitude require a great deal of learning on the part of teachers and it is difficult to do without support and guidance. Since the English language teaching program in Puebla is recent in comparison to other states in Mexico and the number of English teachers is quite large. Authorities have been implementing different working techniques to promote teachers’ better performance in a more autonomous way. First, a group of teachers known as ‘evaluators’ was created to lead their colleagues’ working process. The evaluator´ responsibilities increase or change according to the ELT program´s needs. Some of the evaluators´ duties are to receive and check the lesson plans of a group of six to ten ELT teachers. They also have to go to the teachers´ schools to observe and evaluate the development of their lessons, and discuss the results of the evaluation or any challenging situation in their teaching context”.