- The organization presented this proposal due to the current shortage of trained teachers | Photo: José Daniel Ramos @danielj2511
Pilar Loyo, director of the Fe y Alegría University program, reported that they submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Higher Education to teach the Bachelor of Education degree in the five locations of the organization. The proposal is due to the current shortage of teachers.
This program, which has been running for 25 years, has graduated 5,663 university technicians in Education and some 269 graduates in this same career through its alliance with the Professionalization Center, according to the information presented by Pilar Loyo in an interview for Radio Faith and Joy Monday, July 8th.
“That is why we asked the Ministry for permission to work on the Bachelor’s degrees in Education,” said Loyo. She also added that the teachers who have been trained through this program act as mediators between the child, their school and their community.
The director of this initiative insisted that teachers not only educate in classrooms, but also function as observers of reality.
“We want to have a teacher who is reflective, analytical, critical of his community, who takes sociocultural elements and brings them to the classroom, who is the guiding thread. We also want a teacher who is respectful of diversity, who knows that each child has his own particular characteristics,” Loyo said.
How many students does the Fe y Alegría University program have?
Pilar Loyo assured that they currently have 400 Education students in the different locations where they teach this course. She also insisted that there are still many people studying this course.
“Having these graduates revives us because there are still many young people with a teaching vocation who want to train,” he said.
In this regard, Loyo insisted that the petition they presented to the Ministry of Higher Education aims to popularize training in this field in view of the shortage of educators in the country.
“This should be a total alliance to try to solve the shortage of teachers throughout the country, especially in technical areas,” he added.
The shortage of trained teachers in Venezuela
A report from the civil association with the schoolpresented in October 2023, revealed that 24% of teachers are not graduates of Education. For this report, they surveyed 79 schools.
“Non-graduate teachers are concentrated in early childhood and primary education,” the study detailed, while only 42% of teachers with less than five years of experience have graduated.
In March 2023, the director of the Venezuelan University Observatory, Carlos Meléndez, pointed out that high school students’ interest in pursuing degrees in the field of social sciences and humanities has decreased.
The spokesman warned in an interview for Union Radio that there is an educational dropout. The least requested chairs in the entire national territory They are Education, Letters and Philosophy.
Meléndez mentioned that at the Universidad Pedagógica Experimental Libertador (UPEL), a leading institution in teacher training, there has been a decline in applications.
According to monitoring carried out by the observatory, in 2014 they had a record of more than 15,000 graduated teachers. While in 2021 only 1,400 graduated.
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2024-07-09 16:50:25
