Our School's Pedagogical Training Program (PFP) is focused on graduates who wish to study Secondary Education Pedagogy in the areas of arts, sciences, humanities and mathematics.
Academic degree Bachelor of Education
Job title Teacher in Secondary Education in different disciplines such as the areas of arts, humanities, sciences and mathematics.
Application Admission 2024: From October 16 to November 23, 2023
Learn more about the Pedagogical Training Program on the Undergraduate Admissions site of the Catholic University.
This program is a opportunity for graduates who want to train as teachers of Secondary Education. Depending on the discipline of your degree, you can apply to different areas: artistic (Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Music Education), humanities (Language and Communication, English, History, Philosophy and Religion and Morals) and Sciences and Mathematics (Natural Sciences and Biology , Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics).
Marisa Meza, Head of the Pedagogical Training Program (PFP).
The curriculum of the Pedagogical Training Program (PFP) emphasizes teacher training and articulates the reconfiguration of knowledge of the discipline of his degree, in such a way that he can also work interdisciplinary and meet the challenges that current education is demanding. In addition to disciplinary knowledge and its didactics, pedagogical knowledge on evaluation, curriculum, learning and development, ethics, management of learning environments, education and society, and applied research methodologies are integrated.. All these opportunities are articulated with practical experiences in the field with different levels of complexity from the beginning of the training.
All this study plan prepares graduates to responsibly take charge of the different professional challenges that they will address from the beginning of their degrees, becoming future educators with a professional and ethical teaching identity with the UC seal.
The Pedagogical Training Program (PFP) of the UC School of Education requests the following credits to obtain a Bachelor's Degree in Education and the title of teacher in Secondary Education.
First semester:
Second semester:
Theological Formation Course: 10 credits.
The program offers interdisciplinary training with specialization in Science and Mathematics, Arts, and Humanities for future educators.
The students who apply to the Pedagogical Training Program (PFP), they must consider the following aspects for admission:
The teacher or professor of Secondary Education receives a teacher training that allows them to ethically exercise their profession, carry out research in the area, plan and create transformative and efficient material to enhance the learning process of students at the levels of 7th grade to 4th grade.
Rodrigo Henríquez, an academic from the UC School of Education, tells you more about the graduation profile of our program.
The teachers of Secondary Education are professionals capable of teaching, in the specialties of sciences, mathematics, humanities and arts, from educational levels from 7th grade to 4th year of secondary education, both in educational establishments and in public and private institutions. Likewise, they can be part of a research team and generate the necessary educational material to improve the learning of children and adolescents.
UC Secondary Education teachers work in areas that allow them to enhance the educational system for children and adolescents.
"The UC Pedagogical Training Program gives you the precise tools so that you can adapt with great confidence to the educational space that you are going to address".
Macarena Uzcategui
Graduate of the Pedagogical Training Program. Discipline of Performing Arts
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