Patricio Felmer, researcher at the Center for Mathematical Modeling of Universidad de Chile, traveled to Honduras to participate in an international event for the study and implementation of standards for training of pre-service Mathematics teachers. The country will lead this process in Central America and, to achieve it, will be advised by CMM members, which already participated in the design of these standards for Chilean teachers.
The meeting was hosted by the National Academy of Sciences of Honduras, University José Cecilio del Valle, and International Council for Science (ICSU), and joined by representatives of the Inter American Development Bank (BID), Honduras Education Ministry, and National Pedagogical University of Honduras, among other organizations.
Felmer talked to the education authorities about the CMM’s experience: “Between 2008 and 2011, we actively participated in the elaboration of pre-service teacher training standards with the collaboration of Salomé Martínez, Leonor Varas, Pablo Dartnell and Cristian Reyes, CMM members. At the event, the president of the National Academy of Sciences gave a symbolic book and discs containing the Chilean standards, to the rector of the National Pedagogical University.”.
This initiative belongs to ICSU, which start this process in Honduras and is planning to expand it in all Central American countries.
“ICSU is working to promote this initiative at Latin American or Central American level, and hopes Honduras to be the first example of this process in the region,” added Felmer.
In the proposal, CMM recommends “to establish, as part of the public policies, a minimal math skills, which must have teaching graduates who will be responsible of the teaching of mathematics at the school”, among other ideas.
