The government created the Directorate of Physical Education

This was the novelty of the week at the educational level. The Government of Santa Cruz, through the Provincial Council of Education, formalized the establishment of the Physical Education Branch.

The official ceremony took place yesterday in the meeting room of the government hall, where the chairwoman of the CPE, María Cecilia Velázquez, gave details of this initiative.

The truth is that the new leadership has been presented as a management unit that aims to promote, through all its programs and actions, a structure that recognizes the meanings, meaning, value, reach and immediate benefits of the organization. 39, physical education in relation to physical education. human development and the quality of life of all children, adolescents and young people, regardless of age, bad, ethnic origin, religion, level of ability, social condition, culture or economy.

They then indicated that the challenge is to reposition the program space as the right and content of the student's development.

They detailed the scope of the school environment, welcoming the entire educational community of the different levels of education in the province, including the initial, first, secondary and modal, special, rural and adult levels.

It was also indicated that the role will be to support the educational policy of the Provincial Education Council with the other Education Departments, the Ministry of Sports and the Ministry of Social Development of the province.

"It seemed to us that during the World Physical Activity Week, it was timely to be able to present this project as part of an educational policy that we consider appropriate for the Provincial Council of Education", said Velásquez at the beginning of his speech.

The data

Velasquez said the province had a thousand physical education teachers throughout the province, which must be multiplied by the number of hours and the number of positions in the initial, primary and secondary levels, where teaching is offered. physical

"We believe that physical activity is not only related to sport, because it seems that physical education concerns the development of intelligence, psychomotor development, expression of the body and health problems articulated with other ministries or problems of inclusion in the Ministry of Development and it is about being able to reinforce a policy of activity and physical education of the Provincial Council of education transferred to different levels.

"It will be the task of Leyla, the brand new and first in charge of this direction, also a teacher in physical education," he said.

He said that soon they will also sign an agreement with the National University of Avellaneda, in which he pursues studies in physical activity with a very important concept in terms of human development for what he contributes and human development developed into physical activity.

"We will certainly offer some courses that we consider a complementary cycle to, in the future, approach training with a degree and, perhaps later, I do not believe, this year, be able to think about the creation of a teacher in education and physical activity, "he pointed out.

Velázquez said that it seemed important to train the province's physical education teachers to all that this implies not only in terms of sports, but also because of the opportunity for them to live in this training and in the important relationship with the environment because Through the body, which is the entirety and that children must be able to generate an awareness of that.

"We believe that it is very important to strengthen this awareness and spaces for expression, physical education and sport so that citizens of Santa Cruz can find the opportunity to develop activities. through their body or generate a competition around physical activity, which for us is a starting point and we thank you for your presence, "he concluded.