Passion and vocation is what characterizes the work carried out by Venezuelan pedagogue Olga Ferreira in “Positive Teaching”, where she promotes children’s learning through play and deals with the disorders that hinder this process.
A specialist in pedagogy, of Spanish nationality but residing in Panama, he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute of Caracas (Venezuela) and has academic training in other fields such as occupational therapy, child neuropsychology, early stimulation, ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).) and others, each of them puts them into practice in their daily life with their students.
Ferreira’s interest, with more than 25 years of experience in the field, for pedagogy It was always latent, she acted as a teacher from a young age, and while her staff technician was doing it, circumstances, some needs on a personal level and in the places where she worked, brought her even closer to her. calling.
When Ferreira was 15, his grandfather suffered a strokeshe was in charge of conducting occupational therapies, which awakened an affinity for this field, but she was also passionate about the idea Working with childrenTherefore, she passes the tests and enrolls in the institute, where she graduated in two professions, a specialized teacher and a graduate pedagogue (teacher in Venezuela).
When he entered the institute, he gave up his internship as a personnel administrator and dedicates herself to what she wanted to study, while at the same time starting to work in the field with children at risk and in low-income schools, where the needs are met child population.
After completing her studies, Ferreira was employed as a teacher, and three months later she became the director of a center for initial educationchildren from three months to seven years, and further improves his profession and chooses to study everything related to early stimulation take care of the little ones.
Up to this point, Ferreira’s commitment to pedagogy is further confirmed, and then it remains pregnant her first daughter, gives birth to a stillborn at seven months and in order to recover she decides to quit her job, three months later she becomes pregnant again and puts work with children on hold.
In 2007, due to a job transfer from her husband, Ferreira moved to Panama, when her son was three years old, she already knew read and writeand when entering the education system he had a bad one experience to the point that I didn’t want to go to school.
In the first institution he entered, Ferreira recalled that the letter written by his son was crumpled up by his teacher and thrown in the trash, because according to her his work was useless, since the boy decided to use wooden colored pencils instead of wax as and his other companions.
Because of the trauma it caused her son, the specialist is active in her work again and applies all her knowledge to detoxify the little one, who enters a new institution, where the scenario was very similar to the previous one, they kept calling her to complain, until then her son had ADHD, still undiagnosed, and no alternative treatment for the disorder was implemented in her classroom.
In the end, she moved to Guatemala for two years, she already had her second daughter, and there she took her son to various specialists and got diagnosisat the same time, he specialized in ADHD.
Because of Ferreira’s academic background, his profession, and the way he applied it all tools word got out about his own children and relatives asked him to help them with their little ones and that’s how it started”positive teaching” (@ensenanza_positiva).
“Positive learning is born first of all from my need, as a mom, the only thing that didn’t have a name, but I was already applying it at home and in 2019 the need for friends appeared… and then it started to flow and the word started to spread,” she commented is.
Ferreira has a classroom in his house equipped with games and materials for all therapies development areasand in the future he hopes to transfer the project to a wider area in order to integrate more children and even hold workshops for teachers so that they can apply positive teaching with their to students.
Source: Panama America
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