Sonia Fernanda Díaz Morales Teacher and Director
My name is Sonia; I studied at the Normal Naciona de Pasto school where I graduated as normalist bachelor. Then I entered the University Institution Cesmag to study pre-school and from there I entered the University of Nariño, where I obtained the title of “Licenciada” in primary school and English.
I worked for 5 years in a very small rural school in Chavez, where I founded the pre-school. After other experiences, in 2005 I started to work in Talita Kum school, and there such a new and wonderful experience begun…
Gladys Amanda Ibarra Coral, Teacher
After vocational secondary at the Normal Superior of Pasto and receiving the title of Pedagogical Bachelor, in 1992 I began to work at the Liceo de la Merced Primaria Franciscano as a primary teacher, and during the next years I gained experience from many schools up to April 4, 2003 when I finished my studies at the Mariana University of San Juan de Pasto and received my Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce and Accounting graduating with honours. In the same year I went to work in the red zone of the Nariñense coast at the Nueva Colombia Llorente Nariño School, working in the morning in high school as a teacher of commercial studies and in the afternoon in primary school as a primary school teacher. Between 2004 and 2016 I worked in various municipalities of San Carlos, Puerto Asís, Orito, Villa Garzón, Puerto Guzmán and I stayed for a long time In the Hormiga Valle del Guamuez.
As the years went by everything went well, but I developed carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands and then cubital tunnel which required operations and intense physiotherapy. I returned to my homeland with my family to recover little by little, when the opportunity to work in El Centro Educativo Talitá-Kum de Chachagüi presented itself and I feel happy and proud to belong to this prestigious Institution, to share new experiences applied to different profiles and different student situations.
Luis Hernando Rodríguez Guerra, Music teacher
Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world. I will begin my story by thanking God for having given me the gift of being an educator.
I began my studies in a state school in Chachagüí where I met people who instilled in me a love of the arts, especially music. I learned to interpret Andean Latin American wind and string instruments in a mainly empirical self-taught way as it was then rare to find a place for musical training.
Once I finished my bachelor’s degree, I entered the faculty of arts of the University of Nariño to the degree program in music education, I joined the symphonic music band of the degree program where I learned everything related to the interpretation of the saxophone, piano, band conducting and pedagogical work
During my career i worked with several musical groups of various genres in the city of Pasto and in the neighboring country of Ecuador. I worked for 12 years as director of the house of culture of the municipality of Chachagüí during the time in which the music school was founded and we trained the first youth music band. I worked as a music teacher in other schools and educational institutions and did my teaching practice at the state school of Chachagüí where I was taught as a child.
Currently I work as an arts and music teacher at the Our Lady of Carmen Pasto School, Missionary Carmelites and at the Talita-Kum Chachagüí educational center in which we are training young people and children in learning values such as respect, tolerance, compliance and both theory and practical music with an emphasis on Latin American Andean music, wind and string instruments, percussion
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