ILALE Congress 2013 brings together education experts from Latin America

SANTO DOMINGO.- The Vice President of the Dominican Republic Margarita Cedeño inaugurated the tenth congress of the Latin American Institute of Educational Leadership (ILALE) of the Nova Southeastern University that is celebrated in the country on Thursday 13 and Friday 14 of June, with the participation of 250 national and international teachers.
With the theme "Education, Innovation and Change”, The activity, which also organize the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), the Universidad Católica Tecnológica del Cibao (UCATECI), the American Dominican University (UNICDA) and Business Action for Education (EDUCA), is held in the Great Hall of the Hilton Hotel.
Cedeño stressed the importance of creating an annual space for reflection for teachers on how to educate for change, in an innovative way. "Education is a permanent process of liberation and construction of citizenship; It is the most profitable investment, "he said.
The inauguration of ILALE was led by Armando Rodríguez, director of Educational Programs for Latin America at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) and Timothy Shields, dean of Education of the NSU, Rolando Guzmán, rector of INTEC, Migdalia Martínez, dean of Social Sciences and Humanities and coordinator of ILALE, Father Secilio Espinal, rector of UCATEBA, Antonio Isa Conde, advisor to the Presidency, Thelma Camarena, of UNICDA, and Monseñor Ramón Benito Ángeles.
The annual ILALE Congress aims to create a space for dialogue on current issues in education in Latin America, while promoting the exchange of successful experiences about the future of education at all levels.

Making a mistake with responsibility
Armando Barrios, the first speaker of the event and a research professor at the College of Advanced Management Studies (CESA) of Colombia, raised the need for teachers to educate the world that people must face. "There is no way to innovate, to undertake and to be creative if it is not wrong. Studies have determined that the general tendency is for entrepreneurs to have more stable achievements in the seventh attempt, that is, after four or six failures. That's why teachers must allow students to make mistakes without fear, but with responsibility, "he said.
On the role of educational institutions questioned the fact that it is assumed as a standard that reproduces the "best practices" of other educational institutions that are taken as a model, in general. "The educational system must have the courage to break with the past; Following the "best practices" only makes an institution resemble the one that does what we are reproducing and the more institutions do it, there will be nothing that differentiates us, "said Barrios, of Venezuelan origin.

Subjects and exhibitors
Among the invited panelists are Marelen Castillo, rector of the distance education university UNIMUNITO Virtual of Colombia and Mara Grassiel Acosta González, Director of Teaching of the General Directorate of Higher Technological Education of Mexico, along with other renowned international educators.
While the national specialists will be the rector of the Technological Institute of the Americas (ITLA), José Armando Tavárez, the director of the Colegio Babeque Secundaria Rosalina Perdomo, and the director of the regional 10 of the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Argentina Henríquez, among others.
The keynotes that will be delivered by international experts in this tenth version of the ILALE 2013 congress are "Creating conditions for innovation" and "Education for creativity and the management of educational change", whose content will then be deepened in the panels of specialists with the themes "Development of innovation and youth talent", "Good practices of innovative educational projects" and "Managing institutions that learn".