Training for Teachers

Formando Formadores

Source: Fundación Televisa

 

In Fundación Televisa we believe that the strength of a country lays on the soundness of its education institutions, especially when they inspire their students to become responsible and driven citizens. To enable Mexico to achieve quality education it's necessary for those responsible of its implementation to have the necessary tools and knowledge to do so. For this we have created the program “Formando Formadores”.

 

Objectives:
In Fundación Televisa we consider that one of our most important purposes is to fortify education in our country.  We are certain that to achieve this we must offer training and actualization programs specifically developed for teachers and principals in basic education, since through enriching their abilities and competences it will be easier for them to improve their performance in the schools, in direct advantage for their students.

 

How we help:
In a joint effort Fundación Televisa, Excelencia Educativa A.C. (Education Excellence A.C.), Instituto Tecnólogico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey Technological Institute of Higher Learning) (ITESM) and the governments and ministries of education in the states, we procured various opportunities for training and actualization for principals and teachers in basic education public schools.

 

First Phase:
It consists on giving a partial scholarship for seminars on: “Leadership, Quality and Docents Competences” and “Leadership, Quality and Directive Competences” for teachers and principals. Each seminar consists of 3 courses on line of 40 hrs each, designed and tutored by Excelencia Educativa A.C (Education Excellence) and the Tecnólogico de Monterrey (Monterrey’s Technological Institute of Higher Learning). The cost of each course is $900.00 + I.V.A.

 

Second Phase:
Once the two first seminars have been completed a full scholarship is given to the best students for a summer course in Madrid, Spain; also, to the second best students get a full scholarship to study at the Tecnologico de Monterrey’s Virtual University.

 

Scholarships in Spain:
Summer courses: “Perfecting the docents and directives competences in a society of learning”.

This seminars goal is to complement and study further the contents developed in the course-work shop received in Mexico; applying and implementing models, strategies and procedures to improve the quality of education institutions, and for its participants to acquire the techniques and strategies necessary to accomplish a horizontal and vertical communication of the expertise acquired, and to have the ability of shearing this experience with their colleges.

 

Financing: 100% of the total cost of the course ($45,000.00), which includes: airplane fare Mexico-Madrid-Mexico, per Diem during their stay in Spain, health insurance, tutoring, and formatives and cultural visits.

Place: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid Autonomus University), Spain
Duration: 3 weeks.

Scholarships at the Tecnologico de Monterrey Virtual University:
On line course: "Eduaction Competences for the XXI Century”

This seminar aims to strengthen the teacher’s performance as a learning facilitator. Through the development of abilities and dexterities that enrich the teaching practice and the use of information technology.

Financing: 100% of the total cost of the course ($4,485.00 IVA included)
Duration: 240 hrs. on line (approximately 7 month)

 

Results:
In 2008 more than 30,865 scholarships for teachers were given in the participating states: Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarít, Nuevo León, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcála, Veracruz Ignacio de la Llave, Yucatán, Zacatecas.

 

Scholarships were given to the most outstanding students that took the course “Leadership and innovation for Education Quality” at the University Francisco de Vittoria in Madrid, Spain, in collaboration with the Fundación Carolina A.C.; and scholarships for studies at the ITESM.

 

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