Pedagogical Training Program begins its 2023 academic year

Nearly 130 students participated in welcome activities, including talks on mental health and self-care.

 

In "Aulas Parque" of the UC San Joaquín Campus, the Welcome and Presentation of Pedagogical Training Program (PFP) of the Faculty of Education UC, which constitutes an opportunity for graduates who want to train as teachers of Secondary Education in disciplines such as the arts, humanities, sciences, and mathematics.

Different authorities and student representatives attended the presentation of the Program, among them Alejandro Carrasco, dean of the Faculty of Education UC, who delivered words of welcome to the about 130 students, from different universities, who join PFP.

“In Chile, teacher training in the 90s suffered from something. He had a very precarious practical training and that made the immersion of the teachers in the school system lacked work with students. We as a Faculty of Education decades ago we incorporate successive intensive practices. We work hard to design this learning experience to which you join today”, indicated Alejandro Carrasco.

A community beginning to form

Marisa Meza, Head of the Pedagogical Training Program, delivered his impressions for this new academic year of PFP.

“We have started with a lot of enthusiasm and you win the start-up activities, those that have allowed to start take the tone of a community that begins to form with those who come. Looking ahead to this 2023, the emphasis we have given to the program as total leadership is very important, together with the practice coordination, which is an emphasis on the social-emotional”, mentioned Marisa Meza.

This proposal is present in the various activities that are part of the PFP Welcome, such as the talk he gave last Thursday psychologist and UC academic Ana Maria AronEntitled "Let's talk about good treatment", oriented to self-care and ways of protecting oneself and others; and also the talk that will be held this next Thursday March 23, called "Student Physical and Mental Health".

“During the year we are going to promote the care and self-care in the program. We hope it will be a rich year, with challenges and also a loving year with ourselves and with our community. a year of learning in which teachers capable of welcoming their students are trained, teach them in the best conditions, be able to generate a climate that allows us and allows others learn better, be more and be better”, concluded Marisa Meza.

Check out the photos of the meeting below: