The Basic General Pedagogy program trains teachers with solid foundations in the pedagogical, didactic and disciplinary field, standing out as leading professionals in the design, conduct and evaluation of inclusive and democratic educational processes, at different levels of basic education.
Academic degree Bachelor's Degree in Education.
Job title Teacher of General Basic Education with mention (Mathematics, History, Geography and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Language)
The Basic Education teacher is a pedagogical professional capable of delivering knowledge and promoting the development of girls and boys in their school years.
The UC Pedagogies are characterized by having a curriculum centered on practice, for which our program contemplates, in the educational courses, both didactic and practice, opportunities to make effective specialized pedagogical knowledge with different levels of approach. At the university, videos, transcripts, curricular materials, student work are observed and analyzed, tests and simulations are carried out in less authentic contexts and with progressive levels of complexity. Opportunities to practice at the school start from the first year of training.
You want to know more? The head of the Pedagogy in Basic Education course, Andrea Cáceresexplains it to you in the following video.
Andrea Cáceres, Head of Pedagogy in Basic Education.
The curriculum of Basic General Pedagogy contemplates founding, pedagogical, disciplinary and didactic courses as well as the development of five practices progressively from the first year. The design of the courses contains different degrees of approximation to the school environments in which the training process is nurtured from the different areas. Regarding the specializations, in the ninth semester of the degree, you can choose between the mention of Natural Sciences, History, Geography and Social Sciences, Language o Mathematics.
The degree in Pedagogy in Basic Education contemplates five major training areas, which are related to each other throughout the study plan, and differ in terms of their formative emphases. These areas are called:
For each of the areas, a set of curricular activities has been defined that allow the achievement of the knowledge, skills and attitudes involved in the competencies defined for obtaining the degree of Bachelor of Education (400 credits) and the professional title ( 500 credits) with a duration of 10 semesters.
The program offers different learning scenarios for an interdisciplinary training of future teachers.
There are different pathways for admission to the Pedagogy in Basic Education course at UC Pedagogies.
This score is calculated with the percentage of the total high school grades (NEM), the ranking of the establishment from which he graduated, together with the score obtained in the entrance exams for higher education.
The score is broken down as follows:
Special Admission: This admission route is addressed to all applicants who have higher education, to applicants who are in unequal conditions to take the admission tests and outstanding applicants in the national sports, artistic or scientific field.
The Basic Education teachers are professionals who stand out for their leadership, which allows them to successfully insert themselves into various work contexts such as: public and private educational centers, educational management and team leadership, pedagogical study and research centers, institutions dedicated to the design of educational material and government analysis and design institutions. of educational policies.
The graduates of Basic Pedagogy may work in any public or private educational establishment or in various research institutions in which pedagogical training is required, being able to advise, design and prepare educational materials that support the learning of boys and girls, covering from 1st to 6th year of Basic General Education and from 3rd to 6th Basic as a specialist according to the mention made.
Our graduates are expected to have a reflective and proactive attitude towards change, to be creative, respectful and respectful of people, with a vocation for service, capable of teamwork and of exercising positive leadership.
"I would recommend studying Basic Education Pedagogy at UC because of its training model, because having practice initially allows you to realize if it is what you like and how complex it is. I think it is the best place to study".
Emerson Martorell
5th year student of Pedagogy in Basic Education
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