The access to pedagogies program is aimed at third-year middle school students, who have a real interest in the teaching profession.

Under the auspices of the Integrated Pedagogical Management Unit (UGIP), the “I Want to Be an Education Professional” (QSPE) program was born in 2017, which seeks to attract students who have a teaching vocation and good academic performance. The team that leads this great work is made up of teachers Lic. Diego Contreras and Lic. Gerardo Galleguillos, and the psychologist Andrea Hoces, who have had the responsibility of socializing the project among the different actors of the school system, selecting the participants and coordinate the entire academic process.

Student Almendra Martínez, one of the program participants, started classes in November like her 26 classmates, making up the first generation of the plan. Two months after its start, she commented that “the professors as well as the working students have been of great help, they give us what they have learned during their studies, and what the university environment is like. The contents that have been given to us, in my personal perception, have helped me a lot, I can see things differently thanks to what the teachers have taught us.”

In that sense, the first modules of the program have focused on developing the psychosocial area of ​​the students, classes that are taught by Mg. Viviana Romero and the psychopedagogue Adolfo Chacana, and which will end at the end of March of this year.

“When I arrived on the first day, they gave us a 'mini workshop' so that we could gain confidence, where we met my colleagues and future colleagues. They always group us in different ways to achieve greater closeness between us all and support each other, and they always treat us as part of the University and make us feel comfortable within it,” added the student.

When asked about the reason that led her to be part of the program, she explained that it was “because since I was very little I have liked teaching, and the fact of being able to deliver knowledge to the little ones makes me happy and that is what matters most to me; That's why I want to study Pedagogy in Basic General Education. I believe that this program will contribute to improving the quality of education, because it is carried out after several stages and we see the real vocation of what each participant wants to study and why they want to choose that career.

During the month of April, the QSPE program will begin the academic area, hoping to maintain the high commitment that students have shown to date.

“In this area, the development of skills in mathematics as well as discursive competencies will be sought, considering this as a basis for the development of pedagogical and disciplinary standards once they are part of one of the ULS pedagogy programs,” said the academic coordinator. of the program, Lic. Gerardo Galleguillos.

Thus, students have gradually approached university life, clearing up their doubts on the one hand, and enhancing what motivated them to join this initiative: being an educational professional.

More information about the program at http://pedagogias.userena.cl/programa-quiero-profesional-la-educacion/.

Source: PMI FIP ULS1501 Press