According to the Ministry of Education (Mined), the initiative aims to strengthen academic quality and foster student skill development by providing support for learning processes in the country’s schools.

Selected professionals will leverage their knowledge and experience to support classroom instruction and must have two to three years of experience in the required fields, Mined stated.

Required skills include managing virtual learning management systems and learning experience platforms, using applications to design educational resources, and proficiency in office software tools.

However, teachers’ unions have questioned the call for applications, particularly following the elimination of positions and unjustified layoffs over the past year—affecting more than 30,000 teachers.

The “Teachers for Education for All” Union (Sindicato de Docentes por una Educación para Todos) questioned why Mined is seeking new professionals when there are currently thousands of unemployed teachers who could be given an employment opportunity through these new hires; they would simply need training to meet the program’s curricular requirements.

Meanwhile, the Salvadoran Teachers’ Front (Frente Magisterial Salvadoreno) expressed concern regarding the use of certain educational technologies, noting that they had been withdrawn from European countries due to their negative impact on student learning.

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