PACE ULS Program holds fourth version of the Seminar “Strengthening the Guidance Function”

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The event was aimed at head teachers, counselors, coordinators and management teams of educational establishments assigned to the University of La Serena program.

The Support and Effective Access to Higher Education Program (PACE ULS), in its line of work of the Preparation Component in Secondary Education (PEM), held the Seminar on Strengthening the Guidance Function: “Education and students of the Region of Coquimbo: A critical look and reflection for its future”, for the twelve educational establishments assigned to the government average, belonging to the house of higher education.

pace2 seminarThe central objective of the fourth version of the seminar was to develop reflective educational spaces aimed at revealing the importance of XNUMXst century competencies that are transversal to the students' curriculum, and recognizing the influential factors in the development of students' post-secondary expectations. belonging to the PACE ULS establishments.

Along these same lines, Jovanna González, academic manager of the PEM PACE ULS Component, explained that the fourth version of this seminar “was directly aimed at head teachers, counselors and/or management team. To achieve this, we program various activities associated with presentations by experts and the PACE team, collaborative work workshops and dialogue tables. I want to highlight the participation of the attendees, committed to the themes, collaborators and, above all, all empathetic with the situations raised in the seminar. I believe that we have once again met the goal and I hope that all those who participated in this new version of our seminar , replicate what they have learned in their educational communities.”

In this context, Juan Pablo Fajardo, PEM PACE ULS psychoeducational manager, pointed out that “within this instance we deliver didactic and methodological strategies that will allow teachers and directors to support the development of transversal competencies in students, in addition to promoting collaborative work between the professionals of the PACE program and the educational teams of the PACE ULS educational establishments.”

pace3 seminarFor María Alejandra Zúñiga, director of the Pedro Pablo Muñoz School in La Higuera, “this is our second year in the program and each year our expectations increase, I think it was a tremendous seminar. We have learned, remembered educational situations that we took with us to share in our establishment (…) I hope for a next opportunity to be present with more teachers from my team, so that they can share transversality, the sense of belonging with colleagues, peers, teachers and managers of the other PACE ULS establishments.”

While Eduardo Carvajal, PACE coordinator of the Raúl Silva Henríquez School in Ovalle, highlighted that “every exchange with the University is positive; Without a doubt, I have the same appreciation of this seminar, an enriching day. It is good to remember that we are working on the same path, our challenges as a school are to try to correct errors, try to adequately and timely inform our students of the processes necessary to enter tertiary education, and PACE is one more door that our students have to enter higher education.”

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE ULS Program