At the invitation of the Ministry of National Education, the University of Cauca will participate in the national call for advanced training of teachers and teaching managers in preschool, basic and secondary education.

The Ministry of National Education, within the framework of the “Leadership Leaders and Transforming Teachers” strategy, invited the University of Cauca and other accredited higher education institutions to submit the list of postgraduate programs that the Institution can offer to promote teacher training through forgivable credits of 70% of the tuition value and 85% if they are ethno-educators.

"In order to offer specializations and master's degrees, the Alma Máter sent the Ministry of National Education a list of four specializations, six master's degrees and a doctorate, so that teachers and teaching managers have postgraduate training," said Professor Paola Sáenz , coordinator of the Pedagogical Unit project of the Bachelor's degrees of the Universidad del Cauca.

The Magister in Education indicated that on May 13, 2020, the Ministry of Education in a meeting with the representatives of the Universities that came together to strengthen the training of educators in the official sector, the University of Cauca obtained 130 quotas for the Master in Education in the deepening modality, 55 in Buenaventura and 75 in Mocoa; as well as 25 places for the Master in Intercultural Studies to be held in Popayán and another 75 places distributed among the Specializations in Education and Disability; ICT for Educational Innovation and Physical Activity for Health to be held in Popayán.

Also part of these studies is the proposal of dialogues between social, disciplinary, pedagogical and didactic knowledge and knowledge produced at school and in academic settings prepared for research and construction of alternatives to the general and particular problems of education. To access this call from the National Government, applicants must fill out the required information and attach the supports on the ICETEX platform, before July 12, 2020.

It should be noted that the National Government defined the strategy "Leaders and Teachers Transforming" because it considers that teachers and managers are the main agents of change and leadership in achieving better educational quality and because it is a priority to recognize and promote them in their development, personal and professional, promoting their well-being and strengthening their pedagogical and didactic practices, as well as their training process.

In this sense, the Ministry of National Education defined different strategies to impact the processes and the integral development of the learning of children and adolescents in the country, through the postgraduate programs at the specialization, master and doctorate levels offered by higher education institutions to their educators, which implies a systematic process of learning and intellectual creation, strengthening in teachers the construction and production of educational and pedagogical knowledge based on reflection on the quality of education offered in Colombia.

And likewise, the Ministry of National Education recognizes education at the graduate level as an excellent opportunity for service educators to strengthen their professional skills, improve their teaching practices, promote educational research and disciplinary deepening, which has a positive impact in social transformation, improving the quality of public education, by granting forgivable educational credits.

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