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Ped students. in Early Childhood Education share their learning experiences with the community
The Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, was present at this successful exhibition that seeks the exchange of learning experiences between students at different levels of the degree.
As is tradition at the end of the academic period of the first semester, the students belonging to the different levels of the Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education career at the University of La Serena, shared with the educational community their learning experiences, reflective and creative processes, developed from theoretical and practical references, allowing us to know in part the professional training process of the students.
The activity called “Exhibition of Integrated Learning”, was carried out in the premises of the Isabel Bongard Campus and was attended by the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, the dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Dr. María Zúñiga, the director of the Dept. of Education, Mg. Bernardo Jopia, the director of the School of Education, Dr. Jorge Salgado, the coordinator of Ped's career. in Early Childhood Education, Yanola González, academics, students, students from the Providencia School and children from the U. de La Serena Kindergarten.
On the occasion, the highest university authority and those attending the activity were able to dialogue with the students, who provided relevant information about the precursors of Early Childhood Education and the group dynamics guides (I year); books on the stimulation of cognitive functions for toddlers (II year); teaching resources for the initiation of science, mathematics and personal social training, and communication for I Cycle preschoolers; and the student's portfolios - Integration of Knowledge in Assistantship Practice II, Evaluation and Didactics of Mathematics and Plastic Expression Manual of Childhood I (III year).
There were also entertaining presentations on Movement in Well-being, Motivation and Instrumental Interpretation, and slides about childhood and a photographic exhibition titled “Looks of boys and girls” were exhibited.
The works presented at the conference correspond to the subjects of the Childhood Body Expression Workshop, History of Early Childhood Education, Manual Plastic Expression of Childhood I, Musical Expression III, Personal and psychodynamic development of human relationships, Development of emotional functions and cognitive, Curriculum Design in the First Cycle, Assistantship Practice II and Professional Practice I, taught by the teachers: Rodrigo Castillo, Johanna Cortés, Rossana Godoy, Yanola González, Silvia López de Maturana, Oriana Riquelme and Clara Tirado.
The coordinator of the Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education program at the University of La Serena, Yanola González, thanked Rector Avilés for his presence in this activity, which “constitutes a space where students and teachers of different subjects show the products to the public. of a set of reflective, critical, analytical, creation, trial-error and much study processes, because each of the materials shown has implicit theories behind it (...). All of this constitutes a space that during the semester, teachers and students have been living through these training experiences. We consider that it is timely and very necessary for the students to have a moment where they face the public and are able to show what they have learned, with their mistakes, strengths and weaknesses.”
Seminar on Teaching Practices
The day also included the Teaching Practices Seminar “Inquiry, knowledge and pedagogical proposals. Training and concern of the future Early Childhood Educator”, where the IV level students presented and analyzed the actions, incidents and knowledge built in the process.
In the activity presented by the academic, Mg. Clara Tirado, the students shared their experiences of internships at Saint John's School and San José, and at the Universidad de La Serena, Laboral Las Higueras and Los Papayitos kindergartens, and community professional internships at OPD, CESFAM Santa Cecilia, among other organisms.
The teaching practice in Kindergartens and child care programs during the last year of the degree is central in the initial training of the future Early Childhood Educator, there she is constituted as an actor-educator with the subjects of education: the preschoolers, their families, educational agents, territorial community.
That is why the objective of the Seminar was to contribute to the training of the future Early Childhood Educator of the University of La Serena, as a reflective, critical, purposeful educator who, in dialogue with the context of his teaching practice, challenges himself and the world of education analyzing, communicating the personal and social intentionality of its actions and proposals.