Ricardo Braginski
06/22/2020 - 18:42
- Clarín.com
- Society
“Since March 16, when the face-to-face classes were interrupted, we produced more than 1,200 hours of television with educational content, at the rate of 14 hours per day on TV and 7 on radio. In 64 days of live production there were 6 bugs, which were fixed at the same time. With a good approach to error, knowledge is also built . Questioning teacher training for these mistakes is, in principle, hasty. Those in front of the cameras are real teachers. The loss of prestige of the profession is bad for the educational system and the enormous effort that teachers are making in this context throughout the country, with commitment and professionalism, is no longer recognized . ”
Who is speaking is Laura Sirotzky, undersecretary of Social and Cultural Education of the Ministry of Education, who is in charge of the program "We continue Educating", with which that portfolio addressed the "pedagogical continuity" for those students who do not have enough connectivity. These are booklets for all grades and years that are complemented by radio and TV programs, in which a teacher always participates, accompanied by a driver.
Within these programs, the errors of the teachers occurred, which were always food for mockery on social networks. The most remembered is that of the teacher who taught a class on dinosaurs and wrote on the board the word "herbivores" instead of herbivores to refer to the plant-based diet. And the most recent was that of another teacher, who multiplied 4.35 X 10 and gave 40.35. And then 789.9 x 100 resulted in 7,899.
Sirotzky acknowledges the errors, but says that they are situations that can happen in a live situation and that they are not "structural or systematic". In addition, he affirms that in pedagogy the question is not the error but "what is done with the error, how are they addressed". “I am not saying that the error is fine, but it must be put in context. There were 6 in more than 1,200 hours of production and it was always corrected. ”
“Before a blackboard we can all be wrong. In the same program, after a short time, what was always done was correct. And it worked on the error. For example, with herbivore, a sequence that lasted 43 seconds, we worked with the use of language, rewriting and the family of the word that is related to grass, "says Sirotzky.
For Sirotzky, “in 43 seconds you can see a catastrophe about teacher training or you can think about the importance of error for the construction of knowledge. The question is what we teach students about error . From the error one learns, it enables the possibility of building other learnings ”.
Clarín asked the official how teachers who participate in television programs are selected. Through the networks it was circulated that they were "union activists". "Not in any way. They were proposed by teacher training institutes, universities and specialists. They delivered a CV and were selected according to the criteria of camera management, among others. The idea is that there is a teacher to build reference with the students in this context ”, says Sirotzky, who points out that 45 teachers are working in this program.
“Not everyone can teach and this was made very clear with the pandemic. In addition, any transformation of the system must be done with teachers, "concluded the official.