- Article 9.1
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9.1 Having scored a weighted average of 8.5 in the Student Survey (ECOA) over the previous three years. In the event of the weighted average being as low as 8.0, complementary evidence of teaching methods may be submitted.
Description
The Student Opinion Survey (Spanish acronym: ECOA) is an instrument that captures students’ collective opinion of a course and the professor. Its results provide relevant information and can help professors recognize strengths and areas of opportunity to improve their teaching and interaction with students.
The annual weighted average of the ECOA is added to the professor’s classification CV. Weighting is done based on the number of students involved:
1. The evaluation obtained from each course is multiplied by the number of students who took the course.
2. All the multiplication results are added together.
3. The number of students who took all courses is calculated.
4. The total obtained in point 2 is divided by the total obtained in point 3.
As of the 2024-2025 call, a single comprehensive ECOA calculation is performed for the previous 3 years. EVAp [Spanish acronym: Overall, my learning experience with the teacher was...] is considered for courses taught following the 2019 syllabus in the evaluation; the REC indicator [Spanish acronym: Would you recommend a friend to take classes with this teacher?] is contemplated for ECOAs concerning course plans prior to 2019.
The assistant category requires a weighted average of 8.5 or higher. In the event of the weighted three-year average being at least 8.0, supplementary evidence may be submitted providing relevant information about your teaching practice. The following are examples of this:
a) A letter containing net positive mentions in ECAG in at least three of the previous six semesters. This letter may be obtained at ECOA&ECAG&ProfInspira › ECOA.
Each person must use their institutional credentials to review the information (the net number is calculated to be the difference between the number of “best teacher” minus the number of “worst teacher” mentions).
b) Justification letter (with supporting evidence) in the event of there being any particular special circumstance that has had a negative impact on ECOA evaluations.
c) Reflective essay on teaching practice, explaining improvements that have been made (with supporting evidence).
You can review aspects to be considered when writing the essay here.
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Format 9.1
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Example 9.1
- Article 9.2
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9.2 Evidence submitted of teaching updating for an average of 40 hours per year during the previous three years in areas such as courses in teacher training, classroom wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, and other courses that demonstrate professional development as a professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Description
Our institution considers it essential to help teachers achieve teaching excellence; consequently, we expect an ongoing commitment from each and every one of them to develop their skills, knowledge, and enrich their teaching practice all the while seeking to successfully implement the various elements of the institution’s educational model. The institution offers a range of training, mentoring programs, workshops, and development experiences, all available to help Tecnológico de Monterrey faculty members flourish as they grow in the institution. The development model and courses offered can be consulted at https://ceddie.tec.mx/.
Currently, there is a need for constant development of teaching skills such as course and lesson planning, sharing or implementation of learning experiences, educational assessment, and other areas related to the wellbeing of teachers and students. It is important to ensure that all teachers have the support and preparation to deal constructively with challenges that may arise in the classroom.
Ongoing development and strengthening of teaching competencies enables teachers to contribute to their students’ success, optimize learning outcomes within the framework of our educational model, and make use of the vast institutional learning resources available to them.
Required evidence may be an entry in the classification CV or take the form of the CEDDIE training Kardex or other training certificates issued by relevant educational institutions (e.g. Coursera Certificate in Pedagogy, Google Educator Certificate, etc.).
External evidence must be provided by a third party; in this case, the institution, association or organization that provided the training. Care should be taken that dates and classification periods coincide and that the submitted evidence specifies the number of hours dedicated and briefly contextualizes the content, noting how it is related to teacher development, classroom wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, in addition to other courses that evidence professional development (inspirational, innovative, up-to-date in the discipline, linked to the environment, and user of technology in teaching practice) as a professor at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Occasionally, certificates may not specify the official length of the course in hours. In these cases, arguments may be given, supported, for example, by the course syllabus or a MOOC screenshot describing the course and specifying its length in hours.
Evidence of an average total of 40 hours per year over the previous three years must be provided, i.e., evidence of at least 120 total hours over the three-year period. A table may be added summarizing courses and hours (indicating that these are documented in SSFF, in the classification CV, or if they are external certificates).
It is important to point out that evidence of professional discipline updating on different topics can be found in another article pertaining to intellectual vitality.
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Format 9.2
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Example 9.2
- Article 9.3
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9.3 Integrate digital education tools in teaching practice to facilitate the teaching-learning process over the previous three years. Evidence of at least two integrations per course is required.
Description
Digital education in the Tecnológico de Monterrey educational model seeks to enrich students’ learning experiences through an educational ecosystem involving the use of innovative teaching methods and digital educational tools.
Digital education tools or tools for digital education are applications or software that run on computers or electronic devices, may or may not connect to the internet, and are used for educational purposes. They enable teachers to offer their students an enriched, flexible, interactive, and/or tailor-made educational experience. Professors are expected to integrate these tools into their teaching to facilitate certain aspects of teaching or student learning. Compliance with this criterion is demonstrated with evidence of two of these tools being used in one of their courses.
Integrating digital tools to facilitate the learning-teaching process is necessary in today’s changing and digitized world. Today’s students are not very attracted to traditional learning models in which professors lecture and students listen, take notes and review the textbook, trying to memorize, process and later verify through repetition. Currently, a single course may integrate different digital tools to support and facilitate learning. There are digital tools for giving presentations, setting up active discussions, collaborating, reviewing, studying, giving feedback, practicing, and evaluating (among others). In the modern context, professors have to select the best tools for their classes skillfully and integrate them into an educational package that appeals to their students’ different learning styles. Professors are expected to implement this kind of integration on a regular basis, semester by semester, in all of their subjects, but the submission of two integrations is required: either an illustration or an example.
The evidence to be submitted pursuant to this article should document complete integration in three sections: planning, execution, and evaluation of a digital education tool’s integration. The addition of these three sections demonstrates that the integration was purposeful and completed and that the ongoing improvement cycle was closed. In addition, the evidence should clearly specify the group in question and during which period the integration took place. Two such integrations are requested; consequently, the same tool may be used in two groups in different semesters, or evidence of two different integrations in different training units (TU) may be submitted. It is important to emphasize that tools should favor the learning of course-related topics and not just be used for social interaction (greeting, asking where the class will be, sharing an anecdote, etc.).
The main evidence required pursuant to this article involves the integrations made by professors in their courses. Consequently, the evidence must be generated on the whole by the candidate professor. It should be noted that a letter from the manager in charge of a TU can help to frame the evidence in terms of group, period, and subject, but it should not constitute the main evidence.
It is important to consider that “technological tools” were required in the 2016 regulations, so the integration of analog devices was allowed. The 2023 regulations have focused the requirement on digital education tools.
Examples of digital educational tools
- Use of discipline-specific software (Autocad, Flexim, etc.) in one or more course topics to favor the development of graduation competencies.
- Use of general tools (Socrative, Kahoot, Mentimeter, TEAMs, Canva, etc.) that facilitate the teaching and learning process by becoming fully integrated in the activity.
- Digital tools facilitate teaching and learning in face-to-face or remote sessions and manifest how session participants interact; for example, conduct surveys to check learning, connect by Zoom with students from other groups and create rooms for teamwork to solve cases, problems and challenges, or use the white board to develop an activity where students collaborate, thereby favoring interaction involving the session’s contents.
Solid evidence of having integrated digital education tools to facilitate the teaching-learning process must include documentation of their implementation by showing the planning, execution, and evaluation of integrations in courses taught in the requested period (there may be two in the same course or in different courses). Confirm that the dates of the implementations correspond to the period being evaluated to ensure evidence approval.
Planning can be evidenced with a pre-prepared design (with mentoring from CEDDIE for example) or any other course-planning document demonstrating how the integration was planned. You may also include screenshots of course elements in Canvas where you can view tool planning and integration.
Implementation can be evidenced by labeled photographs, video recordings of (a) learner(s) interacting with the tool, or a copy of a learner’s submission where it is clear that the tool is being used in the learning process. If photographs are used, dates should be provided to relate them to a specific course; even so, the photograph alone does not usually provide conclusive evidence unless the course, the date, and the context are obvious.
It is important to keep in mind that video formats are not accepted as evidence on the classification platform, but it is possible to save screenshots of the video in question and then reference the video from which the screenshot was taken (with the link to the video location).
There are tools specifically designed for the teaching-learning process (e.g. software to practice solving math problems) that would be useful pursuant to this article. Many digital tools may be used in any discipline. However, it is worth mentioning that the use of specialized disciplinary software does not automatically demonstrate its integration in the teaching-learning (TL) process. How the software is being used for the (TL) process must be demonstrated: not just that the students know how to use it.
The evaluation expects evidence to show the considerations given to how each specific tool was used and/or that there is feedback available from students on its use. A formal evaluation of use can also be evidenced by published outcomes, proof of presentation in a forum, or by a document from an internal or external third party that reports, certifies, or gives awards for tool integrations.
Tools
CEDDIE
https://ceddie.tec.mx/es/innovacion-y-tecnologia-educativa
CEDDIE offers advice, tutorials and workshops on digital tool implementation in teaching and learning; it also offers support such as “CEDDIE te pone la App” (CEDDIE gives you the App) and other software license and application access schemes.
EDuTools
https://edutools.tec.mx/es/colecciones
A space where recommendations and descriptions of digital education tool use are provided.
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Format 9.3
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Example 9.3
- Article 9.4
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9.4 Use innovative teaching methods with the intention of improving the teaching-learning process over the last three years; documentation of one such case and its impact on the course(s) in question should be provided.
Description
Our institution is committed to promoting a culture of experimentation and conscious educational entrepreneurship through an ecosystem of educational innovation that enables professors to reinvent their teaching practice and give added value to their students’ learning processes. Professors are expected to constantly refresh their teaching practice with experimentation and by integrating technological tools through techno-pedagogical decision-making for an innovative classroom experience, by transforming the teaching-learning process with methodologies focused on educational innovation, and by developing original and innovative proposals of high educational value.
Pursuant to this article, submissions should contain the following clear evidence:
- the intention to improve the teaching-learning process,
- general and particular educational innovation goals (specific and measurable),
- the methodology used to conduct the innovation project,
- evidence of implementation,
- education innovation results aligned with innovation goals, and
- course impact assessment.
Professors are expected to integrate an educational innovation activity or a project in which it is apparent that an objective was set to improve a certain aspect of their teaching or their students’ learning process, that its development was methodological, and that a results analysis and impact description were done with regard to the established objectives.
The documentation begins with an explicit definition of the objectives of the educational innovation in a way that allows the results of the innovation to be associated with fulfillment of the course’s education objectives.
Educational innovation results may be manifested as learning. There is not always a positive impact on the first attempt or iteration.
Examples of Educational Innovation goals
- Design a new way of addressing given course content (for example, by using a different methodology or integrating technological tools), evaluating the results obtained before and after implementation, and assessing the impact.
- Create a space in the metaverse (Virtual Campus) where two class topics may be tackled in real-world contexts. Here, problem-solving activities will enable professors to observe student competence and give them more immediate, meaningful feedback.
The evidence must demonstrate that the professor set forth an educational objective and conducted an analysis and evaluation of results, which must be aligned with the stated objective.
Examples of topics, teaching strategies, and educational technology
Guiding questions
- What audience is targeted by the intervention or project?
- What is the problem to be solved or the educational process or aspect to be improved for the target audience?
- What specific goals does the educational innovation seek in terms of specific, measurable outcomes?
- How is it demonstrated that the expected impact was achieved?
- Are these results directly related to the goal or the problem posed?
- In what way is the proposed intervention or project considered truly innovative?
Support Tools
My Educational Innovation
Support tool to generate evidence of Educational Innovation available at MiTEc and:
https://innovation.tec.mx/
iRegister provides support for the documentation of Educational Innovation. It has a guided format and the support of expert advisors in Educational Innovation. When the education innovation project is documented, feedback will be received from an expert, who will provide guidance on how to build up the evidence required herein.
Novus facilitates the obtention of resources to support education innovation projects.
https://novus.tec.mx/es
IFE Conference
Formerly known as CIIE, this is a space for sharing experiences, projects and research results related to educational innovation. This forum is one way of transferring educational innovations.
https://ciie.itesm.mx/es/
CEDDIE
https://ceddie.tec.mx/es/innovacion-y-tecnologia-educativa
CEDDIE offers consulting services concerning how to select methodologies for outcome follow-up and documentation; demos, workshops and consulting services to learn about teaching strategies, in addition to educational and emerging technologies.
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Format 9.4
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Example 9.4
- Article 34.6
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34.6 Have participated, during the last three years, in the development of human resources, having directed at least one graduate student or one post-doc researcher as main advisor or co-advisor. Alternatively, in the case of professors who are in a school that does not have a graduate program (doctoral or master's), or when the professor have taught more than 90% of their undergraduate academic load (in the last 3 years), an acceptable activity is one undergraduate or master's degree student research project, provided that this work has culminated in at least one of the following: a publication in a journal, or editorial, or conference indexed in Scopus, or a work or terminal product equivalent to a thesis co-authored with the student, where the participation of the professor is clearly manifested.
Description
In this article, the image of the master's exam report can be shown as evidence, or a letter from the director of the corresponding postgraduate program, indicating the role of the professor and the information of the student who was advised, as well as the name and year of the thesis. Evidence can be presented from graduate students from other prestigious educational institutions (it is not a requirement that they be exclusively graduate students from Tec de Monterrey). In the event that the professor has taught his academic load mainly in professional, the percentage description of his load must be added, to demonstrate that the required percentage in undergraduate is met, and add evidence of publications or works can be reviewed, showing clearly participation of the students and the professor, and that these correspond to the required temporality (last 3 years).
Format
Format 34.6 (Under construction)
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Example 34.6 (Under construction)