Team of teachers from the Santa Familia School in Coquimbo is trained in Universal Design of Learning

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The course was custom designed, according to your own needs, by the Training Office of the University of La Serena.

42 teachers from the Santa Familia School in Coquimbo completed a training that will allow them to put into practice the new approach to teaching entitled “Universal Design of Learning and its Applicability in the Classroom.” The activity was taught by professionals Alejandra Galleguillos and Karla Rivera, members of the Disability Support Program of the University of La Serena.

Universal Design for Learning (UDA) is a teaching-learning approach that was born as a response to diversity, considering that all students, regardless of their personal characteristics, must have the same opportunities to learn, proposing a paradigm shift regarding the right that each individual has to participate and progress in school, minimizing the barriers to learning that exist in traditional curricula.

For the director of the school, Oscar Vilches, “this is a wish from both the supporters and the teachers, fundamentally to see the DUA method as a contribution to our institution, a product that everything new, the learning, in some way helps us. "They lead to better results in our daily educational work."

For his part, for Juan Yutronic, school administrator, this is a positive activity for the establishment. “Everything that involves training seems extraordinarily good to me, from what both the managers who attended the course and some teachers said (…). The course gave the expected results and fulfilled the objective that was dreamed of,” he indicated.  

Finally, Pablo Sánchez, in charge of the Training Office at the University of La Serena, highlighted how the course originated and the school's response in relation to that need: “I think it is a source of pride for the entire institution to have that cohesion and the ability to listen to their teachers and give them tools for the best development of their activities.”

This was a closed course and taught to the entire teaching staff of the establishment, which allowed the contents and examples of the topic to be adjusted to the reality of the school.

For more information about the OTEC ULS, contact phone number 2204172, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or in Amunátegui 890, La Serena.

Source: DIVEULS press