renewal

The work is part of the Institutional Improvement and Implementation Plan projects of the school, which seek to strengthen the initial training of teachers.

One of the actions implemented by the University of La Serena, through the recent creation of the Integrated Management Unit of Pedagogies (UGIP), is to curricularly renew the study plans of all the careers in charge of teacher training. This, in response to the current demands imposed by the school and educational system in general, in terms of the curriculum and the new social, ethical and political needs of quality and equal education.

In this context, on July 18 and 20, the new proposal that entails the curricular renewal of the eleven pedagogy courses taught by the university was presented to the Academic Council and Board of Directors of the ULS respectively, resulting in the unanimous approval by the collegiate bodies.

renovation2This achievement is the result of hard work carried out since 2016 by the Pedagogies curricular renewal team made up of the Directors and Coordinators of said careers and constituted within the framework of the commitments made in the Institutional Improvement Plan -PMI FIP ULS1501- regarding Curriculum Redesign. This team, with the support of the Project Management and Coordination, in addition to the Teaching Improvement Unit (UMD), focused on rethinking and renewing the current curriculum of the careers, considering a common vision and embracing the essential guidelines for the training of a ULS professor.

“The renewed plans respond to a very particular moment that we are experiencing in our country, due to the important social and educational demands that are presented to us, to which the University, through the Institutional Improvement Plan for Pedagogy, has to attend and respond. to what the educational system and mainly the school system is demanding of us. Our programs must be articulated with the school curriculum, in terms of its demands, problems and projections because ultimately the work of pedagogy careers is a function of its teaching,” emphasized the academic coordinator of the UGIP, Dr. Sandra. Alvarez.

renovation3That is why the renewed plan will address themes that cut across all pedagogies, promoting the personal, social and academic development of future teachers; An example of this is the presence in the curricula of subjects that address gender equality, citizen education, the use of new information technologies, reading comprehension, among others.

“This also means that institutionally we must promote the culture of continuous improvement, which allows us to monitor the implementation processes of this renewed curriculum, which implies a great challenge, especially in how we will communicate with the school system to receive permanent feedback. For this reason, we have to think about a different way of linking School-University, which allows us to have real information about what is happening in the school system, thereby integrating all the key actors in it and encouraging a much more collaborative participation. and explicit,” added the coordinator.

renovation4For its part, the UGIP, led by Dr. Fabián Araya, will have a fundamental role in the development of the next actions, which will be focused on the implementation of the recently approved curricular plan, which will involve promoting disciplinary and pedagogical updating. of academics, a rethinking of the infrastructure conditions and pedagogical spaces, in addition to strengthening the link with educational communities, all of which must be in accordance with the new proposal for curricular renewal that will be launched in 2019.

Source: PMI FIP ULS1501

 

inclusive documentaries

The audiovisual material was delivered to the Rector of the state campus, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés.

The Municipality of La Serena, through financial funds awarded by the former Culture Council, materialized a project that allows blind and deaf people to enjoy the products of the film industry.

At the Santa Inés Cultural Center, the presentation and delivery of the "Inclusive Documentaries for all. Quilapayún Collection, beyond the Song; La Once and María Elena" was held, an activity attended by the mayor of the regional capital, Roberto Jacob; the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés; Councilor Robinson Hernández, and about thirty people, who were able to witness the film “La Once”.

The way in which these works are perceived are as follows: for people who lack the sense of sight, the dialogues occur normally, but a voice-over explains what happened while the actors are not speaking; Likewise, it introduces the scenes and locations.

Meanwhile, for those who do not have the sense of hearing, the film is accompanied by subtitles where the speeches are made known, in addition to the fact that there is a person in the room who recounts the action using sign language.

On the occasion, a dossier with “La Once” and the other two audiovisual works, a film and a documentary, were also delivered to the Luis Braille school. The same thing happened with the University of La Serena, who will promote them among pedagogies to work on the issue of inclusion.

Source: La Region Newspaper

 

jomat volunteers

The first event of the JOMAT ULS program is aimed at eighth grade students and will take place next Saturday, July 28 at the Sagrados Corazones de La Serena establishment.

Just a few days away is the start of a new version of the Pre-University and Vocational Mathematics Conference of the University of La Serena (JOMAT ULS 2018), a project created in 2012 by students of the university, under the Entrepreneurship Program and Social Innovation “Chilecree”.

The main spirit of the initiative is to promote and bring mathematics closer to eighth grade students in educational establishments in the Coquimbo Region in a dynamic way. To achieve this purpose, this year more than twenty student volunteers joined, who give life to the activities organized and led by Professor Diego Contreras, academic of the Department of Mathematics and in charge of the “Student Attraction, Retention and Accompaniment” subunit of the Integrated Management Unit of Pedagogies (UGIP).

jomat volunteers2“We have met with the team of volunteers to prepare all the activities that we will carry out in this new version. The large number of pedagogy students who will participate in the conference is extremely important, and being part of this project allows them to reinforce their vocation to be future mathematics teachers,” said academic Contreras, who has been part of the initiative since its origins.

Along these lines, and considering the relevance of promoting the pedagogical vocation, this year students participating in the “I Want to Be a Professional in Education” (QSPE) program joined, which seeks to strengthen the teaching identity of high school students. “Participating in the JOMAT is a very significant experience, since I can experience more closely what it is like to be a teacher. I was struck by how didactic the activities will be, and how the advance planning of the tutors and monitors themselves has been, since this will allow us to arrive one hundred percent prepared on Saturday," explained the fourth-grade student, Aylin Díaz. , who is part of the first generation of the QSPE.

For his part, the Mathematics and Computing Pedagogy student, Marcelo Núñez, who has already participated in two previous versions, highlighted the great motivation that his classmates have. “These activities benefit all of us who participate, both us as future teachers and school students, since we try to get them out of their school routine and take them to more enjoyable activities. We are also contributing to their learning that can be used in the SIMCE in the case of the eighth years and in the PSU, for the fourth years. In addition, it allows us to share with students from other areas and other establishments and learn about their experiences.”

It should be noted that this year there will be ten educational establishments from the regions of Atacama and Coquimbo that will join the Olympics, among which are the Liceo Santa Marta (Vallenar), the Andrés Bello Pampa School (La Serena), the Colegio Altos del Cerro Grande (La Serena), Sagrados Corazones School (La Serena), San Antonio School (La Serena), Calasanz School (Coquimbo), Miguel de Cervantes School (Coquimbo), Tulahuén Border Concentration School ( Monte Patria) and the Santa Teresa School (Illapel).

The activities will take place on July 28, starting at 9:00 a.m., at the Sagrados Corazones school in La Serena, and also remember that between October 11 and 15, the JOMAT ULS Science Camp will be held focused on to fourth-year high school students.

Source: PMI FIP ULS1501

 

 

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The trained officials participated in the “Hygiene and Food Handling” and “First Aid” courses.

The Human Resources Directorate, through its Internal Training and Risk Prevention areas, certified this Monday, July 23, 60 ULS Casinos officials who were trained in the “Hygiene and Food Handling” and “First Aid” courses. .

In this sense, the Director of Human Resources, Dr. Héctor Bugueño, highlighted the important work of the officials who work at Casino, also in the constant improvements of this unit, which contributes to better service for the entire university community. In addition, he highlighted the importance of training both in job improvement and in the personal growth of all officials.

In addition, this ceremony was attended by the Director of Student Affairs, Mg. Miguel Zuleta; the Casino manager, Alex Arancibia, the Casino Processes manager, Rosa Zamora; the person in charge of Internal Training, María Graciela Zúñiga, and the University's risk preventionist, Verónica Antiñirre.

liitec

The Gabriela Mistral and Gregorio Cordovez high schools will be the institutions that will begin to work with the University of La Serena in the Technological Research and Innovation Laboratory.

Based on the joint work of the departments of Biology, Education and Mathematics, the University of La Serena created the Technological Research and Innovation Laboratory (LIITEC ULS), with the purpose of strengthening institutional capacities for research, innovation and implementation focused technological resources of public appropriation for education in Natural Sciences, relevant to the needs and challenges that teachers in the Coquimbo Region have demonstrated.

This initiative, which has funds from the Ministry of Education and has been carried out since the beginning of 2018, is in the implementation stage, and to achieve the proposed objectives it has determined to work jointly with educational establishments that want to develop joint research.

liitec2This is the case of the Gabriela Mistral and Gregorio Cordovez high schools, both belonging to the Gabriel González Videla Municipal Corporation, which signed a collaboration commitment to be able to participate in certain moments of the LIITEC-ULS project, of which the program Coordinator of Pedagogy in Biology and Natural Sciences, Mg. Francisco López is the Executive Director.

The LIITEC-ULS project is aimed at researching, innovating and implementing educational technological resources, through the promotion and implementation of experiences of creation and development of educational technological resources (RTE) for education in Natural Sciences. The aim is to enable their integration and feedback, through the articulation of university and school realities, simultaneously exploring the representations of said contents in schoolchildren and undergraduate students.

The cooperative work between the establishments that signed the commitment together with LIITEC ULS will be to carry out technological transfer of teaching and learning experiences in science, supported with technology designed by the laboratory; strengthen teaching skills in the use of educational technological resources in Natural Sciences; participation of teachers and students in co-design processes of educational content in natural sciences; collaboration in the areas of validation, implementation and research of educational technological resources.

The objective of LIITEC is to generate public appropriation goods that support the teaching and learning of sciences. Some products are mobile applications and others consist of the development of collaborative repositories - Cellfie-ULS is an example of this - where in this area the articulation will be with school, scientific and citizen collaboration initiatives.

 

binational research

The congress, which is expected to be attended by 200 people, aims to promote a space for debate, multidisciplinary updating and stimulation of scientific and technological research.

In the Prat Hall of the Regional Administration, the official launch of the Second Binational Congress of Scientific Research Chile - Argentina was held, which will take place in the Coquimbo Region on November 6, 7, 8 and 9 of this year, framed in the Integration Committee of Paso Agua Negra - Commission of Higher Education Institutions.

This congress, supported by the Coquimbo Regional Council, aims to promote a space for debate, multidisciplinary updating and stimulation of scientific and technological research in a wide spectrum of areas of knowledge, promoting exchange and integration between Argentine and Chilean researchers. , thus generating opportunities for academic development related to regional, national and international interests.

binational investigation2It is also expected to promote dialogue and scientific exchange, which enables the enrichment of research experiences generated by young researchers from the different scientific-academic institutions of Chile and Argentina, in addition to constituting an inspiration to increase vocational interest in study and development. of sciences, as a source of knowledge and development.

The meeting is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students from various university and higher education careers, who are developing or have recently completed research activities in their respective homes of study in both Chile and Argentina; and researchers and research professors from universities and Higher Education institutions in both countries. It should be noted that the Higher Education System of the Coquimbo Region reached a total of 2017 undergraduate and graduate students in 43, distributed among the different Universities, Professional Institutes and Technical Training Centers.

A call for close to 200 attendees is expected, from both countries, who will participate in master classes, presentations and posters, the thematic axes being: Binational economic development; Education and culture; Turistic development; Social development; State, society, power and politics; Medicine and health; Present and future energy; and Geoscience, environment and environmental sustainability.

binational investigation3For the president of the Coquimbo Regional Council, Adriana Peñafiel, it is relevant “to be able to support these initiatives that are academic-scientific in nature and above all because they are within the integration framework of the Paso Agua Negra International Tunnel. And in addition to that, it is the meeting of 200 young researchers, young people who are preparing for an academic life, and the fact that they can come and do this exchange with the different Higher Education institutions and that they can also share with our students, is an opportunity from an educational, cultural and scientific point of view and a sign of the interest of both nations and, above all, both regions, in integration.”

Meanwhile, the president of the Commission for the Integration of Higher Education Institutions, Adriana Ledezma, pointed out that this second version of the binational congress considers a “call to all young people and not so young people to participate, to make research proposals in the areas themes defined by this Commission, and the importance has to do, first, with the milestone of uniting the will and generosity of all Higher Education institutions to work with a common objective, in what we do of contributing to knowledge, which has no sense if we do not link ourselves with the environment, with the community, and this is a way of doing it, of putting what we are developing at the service (...). We also hope to achieve this integration with the Province of San Juan and raise important proposals for the region and the country.”

Regarding the congress, the Vice-Rector for Research and Postgraduate Studies of the ULS, Dr. Eduardo Notte, expressed that it is an opportunity for interaction “for the regional institutions and for the Region of Coquimbo and the Province of San Juan. We have many things in common and we believe that it will be a great opportunity for the development of the regions, and how universities act in this. Science has a lot to do with development and that is one of the things we want to highlight in this congress.”

binational investigation4In this II Binational Scientific Research Congress, the regional organization will be in charge of the Higher Education Commission, belonging to the Paso Agua Negra Integration Committee - made up of the University of La Serena, Universidad Católica del Norte, Universidad Central, Universidad Santo Tomás, Technological University of Chile INACAP, Pedro de Valdivia University, Aconcagua University, Bolivarian University, IPChile Professional Institute of Chile, AIEP Professional Institute and Central Valley Professional Institute -, through the Research and Postgraduate Subcommittees, Linkage with the Environment, Teaching and Communications. In addition, the National University of San Juan and the Catholic University of Cuyo join the organization.

The activities of the meeting will take place in the Gabriel González Videla Congress Hall of the Regional Intendancy, in the Gabriela Mistral Regional Library and in facilities of the U. de La Serena, the U. Central, the Universidad Santo Tomás and INACAP.

The I Binational Scientific Research Congress was organized by the UNSJ and the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Innovation of the Government of the Province of San Juan, through the Directorate of Scientific Promotion and International Cooperation, and the Catholic University of Cuyo . From Chile, at that time, the University of La Serena, Universidad Santo Tomás, Universidad Central and Universidad Católica del Norte collaborated, all of them located in the Coquimbo Region.