PACE ULS team continues its work in the Coquimbo Region

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There are 12 educational establishments divided between the provinces of Elqui, Limarí and Choapa assigned to the program.

The Program for Effective Access to Higher Education (PACE ULS), within the line of the Preparation Component in Secondary Education (PEM), has continued with its work of accompaniment in educational establishments attached to the government secondary school.

peace 2In order to be able to complete the closures of activities scheduled for the year, the Secondary Education Support (PEM) team of the PACE ULS Program is developing meetings with the management teams and workshops with 3rd and 4th year students during the month of December. medium, with the aim of closing the 2018-2019 workshop cycle.

Given these visits, Jovanna González, PEM PACE ULS Academic Manager, expressed that “the meetings we are holding with the management teams will extend throughout December and focus on evaluating the work carried out in 2019 and projecting actions for 2020, considering the context. social of each commune that makes up the Coquimbo Region.”

In this context, it was agreed to hold closing workshops with the third and fourth year students of the twelve PACE ULS educational establishments. Juan Pablo Fajardo, PEM PACE ULS Psychosocial Manager, stated that “for us it is important to be respectful of the times and needs of the high schools with which we work, that is why we were evaluating with whom it was possible at the end of the year to carry out the workshop proposal. ”.peace 3

In parallel, the closing workshops for 3rd and 4th grade students have already begun, adding in some educational establishments to other levels, to generate an open dialogue regarding the current context that the country is experiencing. Given these actions, Fajardo argued that “it was necessary to resume our workshops, considering what the students and educational communities have experienced during the social outbreak, so we prepared a special session in which the students could express what they have experienced, the changes that they have seen in their communities and how they envision the next year, especially for those who are in 4th grade, since this must necessarily be considered in the strategies and actions of our program.”

On the other hand, before the end of the year, it is expected to close the activities of the PEM PACE Secondary Education Preparation component with the teachers of the high schools and schools, as a reflection of the work carried out in 2019, and to propose actions for the work 2020, which will culminate with the visit to the Liceo Municipal Polivalente de Salamanca and the Liceo Nicolás Federico Lohse Vargas de Los Vilos.

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE ULS Program