Last Friday, October 19, the first module of the Diploma “Development of Competencies to Support Practices in a Work Context for Initial Teacher Training” was launched, taught by the Integrated Management Unit of Pedagogies, UGIP.

The main objective of the program is to develop in the academic supervisors of ULS internships knowledge, skills and professional attitudes that allow them to advise and accompany future teachers in improving their pedagogical practices in the classroom.

The day began with the welcome given by the alternate executive director of the Institutional Improvement Plan for Pedagogies and the UGIP, Dr. Fabián Araya, who emphasized the importance of the first version of the program offered free of charge to all teachers. from the study house.

“At the moment we are in now, with the curricular renewal of the pedagogy careers within the University, added to the impulse that the Government has given to these topics, the fundamental line of the initial training of teachers is rooted in practice. . Therefore, we will have a primary role within pedagogical careers in what it means to conduct the training process as a central axis and instance of quality towards the professional future of education. This requires reflection and collaborative work where we can agree on what is necessary in terms of personal and professional skills in practical training. The diploma does not attempt to give a lesson on practices, but instead aims to reflect internally on the experience that each person has in this matter in order to have a job that leads to a practical training model within the University of La Serena," stated the director. .

Subsequently, the director of the diploma course, Dr. Sandra Álvarez, explained to those present the main characteristics of the program, highlighting the objectives, contents and modalities. “It was necessary to have this instance of disciplinary and pedagogical updating around our work as supervisors and practice coordinators. Today we are obviously gathered due to a need to update, but also because we are living in a different institutional and national context that has allowed us to have instances like these, which the Institutional Improvement Plan for ULS Pedagogies has properly assumed. This scenario gives us new opportunities to improve our skills as teachers and to reinforce those areas that the school system demands of us in terms of supporting our interns,” said the director.

In this way, the first module “Implications of practical training in the training path of future teachers” was led by Professor Dr. Rosser Bianchi, who has extensive experience within the educational system. On the occasion, they addressed the issues about the role of the teacher and its identification in early practice, the teaching and learning process in XNUMXst century society, and analyzed the main trends in the change of teacher professional development programs. . “In practice, I not only accompany, but above all, I provide feedback to an individual who is becoming a teacher, and he has to know what his role is,” she expressed.

The other two modules will be focused on resources for the supervision and coordination of practices, and on strategies for supporting practices in the work context, in which prominent academic rapporteurs from the national and regional levels, specialists in the subject, will participate. Classes will be held every Friday in person and autonomously, ending their classes during the month of January of next year.

For the rest, the director urged them to feel part of the organization of the IV Meeting of Supervision of Teaching Practices and II Meeting of the National Network of Teachers Coordinators and Supervisors of FID Practices, an event to be held at the end of November and that this year he leads the University of La Serena together with the Metropolitan University in Educational Science and the University of Los Lagos.

Source: Unit for the Integrated Management of Pedagogies (UGIP) | PMI FIP ULS1501 – CM ULS 1755