Belén Olmos

Belén Olmos

Teacher of Early Childhood Education, Primary Education and Therapeutic Pedagogy. Graduate in Psychopedagogy.

Passing the competitive examination is the happy ending of one of the most intense stages of my life. The daily, tireless effort during months of organising, planning, studying and searching for the best ideas in a continuous creative process. The nerves of feeling evaluated. The hope of getting a chance. The certainty of knowing that you love this profession and that this is what you want in life. And finally, the emotion of receiving a ‘yes, you are worth it’. That was 12 years ago and far from being an end, it was the beginning of a double sensation.

On the one hand, the responsibility of occupying a position as a career civil servant, which has pushed me to continue training in a wide variety of aspects, but all of them highly topical: ICT applied to the classroom with authoring tools, the creation of teaching blogs, Logicomathematics based on learning to think, communication skills, emotional intelligence, key competences, methodology based on experiential learning…

And the second feeling is empathy. This is what pushes me to be part of this team, as a trainer, because even today I relive what it means to face a competitive examination and I empathise with those who are starting this long-distance race. Sharing my experience, my work, my training and helping future teachers in any way I can is another driving force in my professional life and I have dedicated the last 9 years to this, combining it with my daily work in the classroom.