Aysenino teacher is recognized globally as Microsoft Innovative Educator 2021-2022
This Friday Marcel Barrientos, professor at the Litoral Austral school in Puerto Aysén was notified as a teacher selected globally as Microsoft Innovative Educator 2021-2022, an instance that brings together teachers from different parts of the world, and which highlighted only two people in our country.
The Aisenino teacher along with another from the national capital, were the only nationals selected on this occasion. “I am very happy for this recognition that will also allow the exchange of experiences, skills and knowledge with colleagues from other colleagues from the country and the world, which will be made available to the children of the Litoral Austral school. I have been MiExpert since 2015 and it is very pleasant. Any teacher who wants to participate and has innovative practices can join the applications. So I invite colleagues to be encouraged and participate in this important possibility, “said Barrientos.
The head of the Municipal Education Directorate, Tamara Villegas, arrived at the premises of the student campus, who highlighted the merit of Marcel Barrientos and his motivation to improve himself in pursuit of the students he teaches. “It is a pride, especially because Marcel will transmit his expertise to the students, which speaks very well of him as a teacher and allows us to dream of a quality education, of being able to materialize it through the effort made by teachers like him.”
The director DEM Aysén added that “the fact that we have a teacher from a municipal establishment who is competing on equal terms with other schools that has many more inputs, many more resources speaks very well of our education and makes us feel deeply happy. to have in our ranks, in our region and, especially in a municipalized school in our commune, a teacher with this incentive, with this motivation that leads him to improve himself every day in pursuit of our children ”.
To this recognition is added that obtained by Marcel Barrientos in 2019, in which he had a successful participation in the Microsoft Educator Exchange. Event that took place in Paris, France, and in which he was the only Chilean representative at the meeting that brings together the most innovative teachers worldwide.
Experience that allowed to publicize the work developed in the educational establishment, called “Children of Patagonia: Innovation and Exploration New Technologies Workshops”, presented in English as “Patagonian Kids: Workshop About Innovation and Exploratory New Technologies”.
This was highlighted by the director of the municipalized school, Carlos Alarcón, when he pointed out that “I am not going to say that Marcel surprises us because he already has us accustomed to the fact that every so often he obtains personal achievements, and many of them are the result of the work he does with the children in this school. What is happening comes to corroborate the serious and responsible work that it does for the benefit of our children and that it is crowned product that we have this technological seal in the establishment several years ago and that today we see how it is bearing fruit ”.
The manager added that “the most important thing is that those who earn the most are the children because the fact that our teacher has been selected for two more years by Microsoft means that he is going to learn much more than he already knows and that later he is going to transmit it to them in each one of the workshops that it carries out. So we are very proud because once again we can as an establishment, thanks to our human team, deliver tremendously positive news to the region and the country ”.
In this way, through the return to the presence of the Litoral Austral school, pending workshops, programming, 3D printing and all those edges acquired by the teacher in his important career are already being retaken at the Litoral Austral school, who through these incentives will continue teaching its students in order to be able to develop their full potential, to generate changes and leave a mark on the municipal education of Aysenina.
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