Bertha Von Glümer Leyva (Acapulco, Guerrero, July 16, 1877 - Mexico City, December 15, 1963) was an educator and teacher from Mexico. He was noted for his contributions to the development of teachers in Mexico and for applying in education the modern models and methods of Friedrich Fröbel. Trajectory
His parents Bodo Von Glumer and Petra Leyva tried, at all times, to give him a good education. Just graduated in 1904 is assigned to an elementary school. In 1907 the Mexican government sent her to know, in the United States, the organization and operation of normal schools for educators. To internalize the system, he studies and graduates from the "Fröebel Normal School" in New York. He later studied "Teacher College" at the University of Chicago, and at Columbia University, New York; takes courses in drawing and sports, as well as music and methodology of kindergarden.
Upon returning to Mexico establishes a system of teaching for teachers, in the Normal School for Ladies, which runs until 1912. When the Huerta military retreat comes back to Columbia University in the United States. The government of Veracruz invites her in 1918 to create a course for teachers in Xalapa-Enríquez, being designated inspector of kindergarten of Veracruz, on her return to the Federal District, worked, at the request of the wife of President Ortiz Rubio, in charitable schools public.
From 1930 until 1934 she worked as a teacher in the Normal High School and in the Normal School of Teachers, giving courses in children's literature and didactic methods. Additionally Leyva founded an academy of teaching in which it gives classes from 1936 until 1952. Works
He wrote numerous didactic and pedagogical works
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