The Ministry of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands has organized an act in posthumous tribute to Professor Gorgonio Martín, in the assembly hall of the Pancho Lasso School of Arts and Crafts in Arrecife, which was attended by family, colleagues and friends of the teacher, who died on January 15.
The act was presided over by the insular director of Education, Juan Cruz Sepúlveda, and Candelaria Ledesma, director of the CEIP AjeiI of San Bartolomé, Irene Betancor Cabrera, director of UNED, Sergio de Páiz Morales, director of the CEP of Lanzarote, as well as Félix Martín Hormiga, from Editorial Cíclope, spoke.
This act was part of the XIX Canary Islands Inspection Conference that was held in the Sociocultural Center of Tinajo, since Gorgonio Martín belonged to the body of inspectors of the Ministry.
Martín Muñoz studied Magisterio in Madrid, and worked as an interim in the Madrid town of Leganés. In the 1977-78 academic year he was assigned to Playa de Alcalá in Tenerife. Finally, he arrived in Lanzarote in 1978 and joined the Ajei School in the municipality of San Bartolomé. He also graduated in Pedagogy from the UNED and, from the 1984-85 academic year, he launched the Guidance Service on the island.
Thus, he worked as a teacher and counselor in the same Ajei school and, in April 1990, he joined the Educational Inspection body, where he held a position on the island, after passing through all the educational areas of Lanzarote.
His passion: representing the students
He was also a tutor professor at the UNED in the Associated Center on the Island. First as a student, then as a tutor professor, secretary and, finally, as a representative of the students, his other teaching passion.
He always resided in the municipality of San Bartolomé, first in the teachers' houses where his daughters were born and, later, he established his residence in El Islote. All the students who passed through his hands, as well as his colleagues, remember him as a great teacher committed and passionate about education. In addition, during a legislature he was councilor for Education of the Arrecife City Council.
Martín Muñoz published more than a hundred articles in professional journals, as a teacher, as a counselor and as an inspector. In addition, he collaborated with the magazine "Jameos", published by the Teacher Center (CEP) of Lanzarote.
