Intelligence and creativity in children: educational challenges initial education
SANTO DOMINGO. - How to make teachers promote the development of the intelligence and creativity of the children during your initial training?; Based on this question, Dr. Margarita Villegas pointed out that those who perform teaching tasks need constantly renew, because the teachers are immersed in a society en permanent changewhere the ephemeral and unpredictable.
When dictating a conference organized by the Area of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), the professional stated that applications of the multiple tools digital They have transformed the ways of relating, of working and, therefore, of living and coexisting.
"This is how, far from bind us to routines y crystallized traditions, teachers must adopt a friendly attitude with the news inasmuch as the demands in the exercise of teaching are changing for the better; and to face that future that has already reached us, it is necessary to emphasize the formation of people with values that lead them to the exercise of critical, autonomous and creative citizenship. This will only be possible if teachers are prepared to promote creativity and intelligence of infants who enter the initial educational level ”, he indicated.
Villegas said that those who become part of the next round of the Specialty in Initial Education at INTEC they will have the opportunity to develop skills that will allow them to take advantage, in their daily teaching tasks, of the inventiveness, imagination and creativity that characterize young children; With this, the future specialist is expected to perfect his qualities to lead practices that recognize the natural environment y socio-cultural of boys and girls in order to develop in them, the autonomy, responsibility and the value for everything that surrounds them.
In summary, said Dr. Villegas, it is hoped that the graduate of this specialty is a committed and competent teaching professional to manage, in an ideal way, school activities, taking into account the sociocultural environment in which the children who live They access the initial educational level, which is essential to guarantee a comprehensive adult life.