This instance plans to benefit more than a thousand first and second year students of the institution and high school students.

The Tutor School is part of the work plan of the Program to Support Student Permanence, Performance, Leveling and Comprehensive Development (APRENDE ULS) of the Academic Vice-Rector's Office, and is aimed at students who fulfill the role of tutor ( a) in the different support programs belonging to the University of La Serena.

Its objective is to train tutors for the different ULS support programs: I want to be an Education Professional, Inclusion and Disability Office, Mentoring Program and PACE. Tutors will receive comprehensive training in 5 training modules, which will provide them with psycho-educational and pedagogical skills and tools that can be used in tutoring contexts.

For the ULS Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Alejandra Torrejón, being a tutor is a fundamental task of support and collaborative work between students, academics and professionals who are part of the university community. “Tutors are important, because they contribute from training, from support, from a horizontal perspective towards their first and second year peers in the academic area. This allows not only to acquire experiences, but also to develop a series of skills such as empathy, responsibility and, why not say it, also personal growth. I want to congratulate each and every one of you who is beginning your qualification and always remember that the work of teaching is not minor, on the contrary, it is fundamental for our society,” she indicated during the launch activity.

In this same sense, José Patricio Frías, Tutor Coordinator APRENDE ULS and Dentistry student, expressed: “I think it is really important to highlight the role that a tutor has, who must not only present a topic, but also generate a bond of trust for support, inform and accompany them in these first steps in their higher education studies and all the changes and processes that entail.”

On the other hand, María José Mercado, PACE ULS Tutor, gave her testimony as a tutor to those attending the presentation. “I have been a tutor for the Architecture degree for three years and I feel that it has been a constant challenge, being able to design a tutorial for my degree that is so practical, but I am happy to see my tutors, every time they overcome their difficulties, I am proud to be able to help my classmates from the first years, it is a noble task and a great support in this change between middle school and higher education,” she said.

The Tutor School is made up of two specific instances. Loreto Garrido, Academic Coordinator APRENDE ULS, explained that “the first corresponds to the work of enabling tutors for the accompaniment programs, in which a series of workshops will be held that will allow tutors to be trained based on certain skills required to function in the field.” time to run the tutorials. This authorization will be a requirement to begin working with students and obtain the Tutoring Scholarship, as established by extensive decree 095 of our university. The second instance, she explained, corresponds to the training or workshops that will be developed throughout the academic period and that will reinforce and / or update the modules carried out in the initial qualification.

Written by Daniel Aguayo, APRENDE ULS Program