In the history of educational institutions, the names of teachers who, after fulfilling their extensive work cycle with suitability and responsibility, are going to enjoy, as pensioners, the freedom of rest and the embrace of the colors of the sunset are usually highlighted.
From this group of retired teachers, I am going to refer to Miriam Vence Cujia and Elba Pertuz Ternera, who for more than 40 years carried out their successful pedagogical mission, and I was fortunate to share with them at IE Pedro Castro Monsalvo.
Miriam Vence Cujia, born in 1952 in Cañaverales, La Guajira. Normalist of La Normal León XIII of Barranquilla. She has a degree in Educational Administration from the San Buenaventura University and specialized in University Teaching at Santo Tomás de Bogotá. Her working life began at the Mixed Rural School of La Junta (La Guajira) in 1972. In 1975 she arrived in Valledupar and worked for 17 years at the Social Welfare College of the National Police. She is a folk dance teacher at the La Sagrada Familia school. At the North Gymnasium, she is the academic coordinator in the primary section.
At IE Pedro Castro Monsalvo, from 1991 until the day of his retirement, in December 2022; there he leaves the mark of academic responsibility and his leadership in organizing events: parades, rhythmic and folk gymnastics revues, civic and cultural events, musical, dance, theater, and solemn events. In the development of his subject, Spanish Language, he implemented innovative strategies. On the subject of lyrics, he analyzed, with the students, Vallenato songs, and they elaborated didactic modules, which included poetic styles, stanza structure, rhetorical figures and the romantic, social, ecological and psychological content of the studied compositions.
Elba Pertuz Ternera, born in 1952 in Pivijay, Magdalena. Normalist of La Normal León XIII of Barranquilla. She has a degree in Educational Administration from the University of San Buenaventura and a specialist in Educational Management from the University of Tolima. Her teaching experience began in 1978 in Becerril (Cesar), and since 1979 in Valledupar, Dagoberto Fuentes Zuleta Concentration, and since 1991 at the Cinco de Enero School.
For many years she was director of the Cinco de Enero school, which belongs to IE Pedro Castro Monsalvo. In her years of teaching, she leaves her trail of caring, harmonious, understanding personality and great mental activity. Her words were anointed with spring to motivate the didactics of learning and promote the ability to socialize in dialogue.
Professor Elba comes from a family of educators: her brothers José and Digna, and her cousins José Ternera, Eberto Pertuz and Ramón Fontalvo. For Professor Elba, teachers and parents of the Cinco de Enero campus, my eternal gratitude for honoring my teaching and poetic work with a significant recognition: giving my name to the library.
By Jose Atuesta Mindiola
The entry Two distinguished teachers was first published in El Pilón | News from Valledupar, El Vallenato and the Colombian Caribbean.
