Lautaro, Temuco, Padre Las Casas, Nueva Imperial, Curacautín, Pitrufquén and Villarrica, are the communes that join the second version of the training, Accompaniment and Mentoria Plan with pedagogical tools for the socio -emotional well -being of the educational teams of the South Chile of the Ministry of Education and that this morning was launched in La Araucanía.
Regarding this initiative, the Seremi Marcela Castro Armijo said “today the important thing is that we also take care of the education attendees, teachers and management teams, because in general our focus is on students that is obviously the essence of the Ministry of Education, but inside there are also other actors that are very important in the development of learning. There are 28 new establishments, and the important thing is that the establishments apply to access to this program. Mentoria, for it to raise actions in their educational communities (…) also has advanced the legislative process of the educational coexistence project, good treatment and well -being of educational communities in the Senate. ”
Meanwhile, from the executing entity, the University of La Frontera, Pablo Fuentes Iturra as coordinator indicated that this is an agreement between the University and the Mineduc that aims to design a training strategy for educational teams that allows the needs to be addressed in some communes and regions of the country, since it is a pioneer initiative that seeks to establish diagnoses that point to pedagogical and management plans. “Last year we started with 30 schools that participate until June of this year, and today we begin with this new group that will be in the program throughout 2025 (…) It works through a team of mentors that week a week visits the schools and works with the motor team in the strategies from a diagnosis together, in addition there is a work space in which the schools that participate are with others – which are the professional learning communities – cover complete. “
The “Training and Accompaniment Plan for the socio -emotional well -being of the educational teams of southern Chile”, aims such as work stress and chronic burnout or stress, providing learning instances of stress management strategies, emotional learning, coping with critical situations, among others.
Voices from educational communities
The educational communities benefiting from the Plan correspond to 112 managers, teachers and education assistants, from 28 establishments in the Araucanía region, distributed in 7 communes; Among them, for Professor Vladimir Díaz Serrano of Temuco Mundo Mundo school, regarding the program he indicated “I and my colleagues on advice and motivate them to participate because yesterday we just talked about the need to have activities that serve for the well -being of all of us because most of the teams point to work with children and it seems very good but as we take care of us, (…) The administrative and pedagogical but today we are very exposed and vulnerable, so we need to have containment regarding what we face in the classroom and with families. ”
Meanwhile, Yesenia Obreque Nowgensk, a teacher at the adult Education Center the Hague of the Amarner sector said that “as we are an adult school we have a rather broad age range, we have students from 17 to 18 years and suddenly we get students 50, 60 or 70 years, which makes it difficult to reconcile the interests and experiences of life being very different. Therefore, this comes to support the coexistence in the classroom,” he said.
