Introduction
Education in Peru has assumed as one of its fundamental purposes, the full and harmonious development of the human person. In this sense, its essential function is to contribute to the integral formation of students so that they can relate in an optimal way with themselves, with their classmates and, in general, with the social environment where the student interacts. Therefore, it has to promote the development of attitudes for coexistence and the adoption of norms that regulate life in community.
The values inherent in a given culture are generated from different spaces of social interaction within and outside the community, in the CRFA, with the planned intervention of the teacher monitors, they are strengthened or consolidated from the links and relationships established by students and family.
In the Secondary Education of the Rural Centers for Training in Alternation, the family of each student is recognized as the main and first responsible for the training of their children, supported by ethical and moral values, for this reason, a planned work is necessary of teacher monitors to work with the parents themselves in the psychosocial development of their sons or daughters and this work becomes productive when the real life of the student and the family is known, in this sense, one of the instruments of alternation becomes important, visiting families that allows dialogue, interaction between teacher monitor, family and students on site, through the daily life of students both in the CRFA (with the monitors and their peers) and in the socioeconomic-family environment (with the family, the society).
Visit families
Visiting families is one of the instruments of alternation that relates two training spaces for young people, one is the family nucleus (socio-professional environment) of each student and the other is the Secondary Level Educational Institution whose name is Rural Training Center in Alternation (CRFA); The integration of these spaces provides the young student with a comprehensive, social and productive business training in their own environment.
During the family period, students share life and work with their family, at the same time, they carry out an intellectual work, the Research Plan, which includes investigating, analyzing and reflecting on the economic and cultural reality of their environment, the which are verified on site during the family visit by the teacher monitors.
It is important to point out that the student's stay in the socio-professional environment is not a vacation, rest, days off, or a time to perform only material work; Rather, it is a time to live a real situation in their community, reflecting, finding out, asking, that is, investigating, thanks to these activities, the student will be able to have a critical spirit about the elements that make it up in real life, so Therefore, this space must be planned, prepared by the team of teacher monitors in such a way that family knowledge is strictly linked with the development and achievement of the competencies and capacities of each area in the CRFA.
“For the monitor, the parents and the person in charge of alternation, the visit is an opportunity for meeting, discussion, advice and mutual help and information in the presence of the alternator. It is a time in which the monitor discovers and is interested in the situation of the young person in her family and / or company. It is, therefore, an indispensable time of the monitor's function to know the family and / or professional situation of young people, to receive their life and work framework, as well as their aptitudes, their adaptation and the relevance of their orientation. " (GIMONET, 2009)
Previous activities before making the family visit
- At the beginning of the school year, the routes for family visits are established, according to the student's areas of origin. For distant sites, suitable dates are foreseen to arrive at the site, generally it is done two or three times a year and in the months of June to August. In the team of monitors, the processes that the monitor must follow during the visit in the student's home At the end of each internship, the team of monitors foresees the places for each teacher and the day and time programming, which the student must write down in their relationship notebook so that when they get home their family has Before going to visit the family, the monitor teacher must bring a printed visit card that has been agreed upon at the time.
Criteria of the monitor teacher during the family visit
- The monitor must be punctual with the date and time of the visit. The monitor responsible for the visit must be prepared not only from a conceptual point of view, but also from a practical point of view. The teacher monitor must show dynamics, willingness, dedication to work, is that is, personal presence and in the end having achievements in the reflection and learning of all in the family. It must be respectful of the customs and way of life of each family. It must not confuse friendship with the work process before, during and after The teacher monitor must have coherence in his expressions, between what the father or mother of the family and the student say, taking into account the psychological development of people in attitudes and thoughts. observations and suggestions from parents or the student himself.
Steps to be followed by the monitor teacher during the family visit
- Pedagogical aspect. The activities of each area are reviewed and help is provided, in the same way, the spelling, calligraphy and coherence in the student's own textual production is carried out. Human aspect: It is a moment in which the monitors dialogue with the family about behavior, responsibility, and other human values that the student must show during the stay in the family. In the same way, the monitor makes reference to how parents should guide their children of the pubescent and adolescent stage. Professional aspect: It is where the monitor talks with the parents and the student about the importance of Business Initiatives. In the upper grades their business project is reviewed by the students on site.
