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In the most recent episode of Sintonía CEDDIE, Rafaela Diegoli, Academic Vice Dean of Tecnológico de Monterrey, and Pablo Andrés Torres, a faculty member from the School of Humanities and Education, delve deeply into a strategy that many of us as faculty members might not pay much attention to: the effective use of breaks. The discussion explores how these intentional pauses are an essential part of the teaching and learning process and how they can significantly enhance the educational experiences of our students.

According to our guests, breaks in the academic context are far more than simple interruptions; they are crucial intervals that allow the brain to process and absorb information. This episode touches on the potential benefits that pauses can bring to teaching methods and shares examples of their effective implementation.

For faculty, the key message is to recognize the optimal times to take a pause and how to schedule these interludes to reap the maximum benefits without disrupting the course's momentum. It highlights the need for discipline in taking the break and then refocusing when it's time to continue.

Breaks are also portrayed as acts of balance and commitment to personal care, catering to basic needs that we sometimes overlook, such as hydration. These moments of respite facilitate reconnection and ensure that the time dedicated to learning is more productive, free from distractions.

In addition to practical advice, the episode encourages starting with small steps by integrating brief breaks into classes and assessing their impact on the classroom experience, identifying the spaces where such pauses could be inserted for the benefit of your students.

Don't miss out on this enlightening conversation on Sintonía CEDDIE, designed to refine your teaching techniques and deepen student engagement. 

Listen to the episode today!

Join our call for sharing your educational assessment practices! The Directorate of Design and Evaluation in the Educational Model, in collaboration with the Center for Teaching Development and Educational Innovation (CEDDIE), cordially invites you to participate.  Our aim is to identify and recognize the best assessment practices that enrich the Tec Educational Model.

 If you are a faculty member at Tecnológico de Monterrey and have taught training units in this model, we want to hear from you!  What do you need to do? Simply send us your assessment practice before June 30, 2024. If your practice is selected, you will have the opportunity to share it on internal platforms of the Institution and possibly in a compilation of best practices with external reach.  For more details on how to participate and the evaluation criteria, please see the requirements and guidelines below:  

• Both full-time and adjunct faculty members are eligible to participate. 
• Practices can be individual or collaborative. 
• Practices aligned with the competency-based approach of the Tec Educational Model will be particularly valued. 
• An academic committee will evaluate practices based on criteria such as authenticity, relevance of evidence, and sufficiency of information for assessing competencies. 

Click here for more information. 

We look forward to receiving your contribution and recognizing your work with a CEDDIE badge!

Semana e is an initiative driven by CEDDIE since 2019, aimed at professionally connecting teachers from Tecnológico de Monterrey. This experience occurs in summer and winter, collaborating with training partners to address real issues, in order to develop and strengthen cross-cutting competencies. 

From January 29th to February 2nd, 2024, two Week e sessions were held, one in the Villa del Carbón Community in the State of Mexico and the other in Aromatics and Chemicals of the Center, in San Luis Potosí. In this edition, a total of 33 teachers from the Ciudad de México, Cuernavaca, Estado de México, Guadalajara, Hidalgo, Laguna, Monterrey, Puebla, Querétaro, and San Luis Potosí campuses participated. 55% were from the School of Engineering and Sciences, 36% from the School of Business, and 9% from the School of Humanities and Education. 

The challenges faced by our teachers during the immersion were: 

Communities of Las Moras and El Ocotal in Villa del Carbón: 

• How to reactivate the route of the Otomí community museum? 
• How to increase the market and distribution network of the Organic Artisan Market? 

Chemicals and Aromatics of the Center: 

• How can we transform organizational culture to promote an approach of innovation and agility? 
• How can we generate supply alternatives to the hypochlorite business that allow maintaining relationships with suppliers and strengthening commercial relations with current customers during times of scarcity of this raw material? 

During the week, teachers became acquainted with the challenges posed by training partners, subsequently having contact in real scenarios to experience what is done in the community and the company, as well as conducting interviews with those responsible. From this, they were able to generate initial solution ideas. 

The teachers worked with the Design Thinking methodology, guided and supported by expert facilitators, focusing on the root causes to generate solution ideas, creating a prototype to receive feedback, which allowed them to obtain a definitive proposal, presented by the teams to the training partners at the end of the week. 

"A great experience, observing their needs and offering a solution focused on them... It allows the teacher to relate to real problems that are contributing to the country's development, without being a large industry," commented Professor Adriana Erika Martinez Cantón. 

Semana e experience allows collaboration among colleagues from different disciplines, the generation of greater empathy with students in the face of challenges, and the strengthening of transversal skills.

We appreciate the participation of the instructors and facilitators: 

• Master Oscar Alberto Bojórquez Gutiérrez by campus Querétaro 
• PhD. Eder Estrada Villalba ambos by campus Querétaro. 
• PhD. Miriam Toribio Morales by campus Monterrey 
• PhD. J. Guadalupe Torres Armenta by campus San Luis Potosí 
• PhD. Norma Angélica Ruiz Servín by campus Estado de México 
• Master Georgina Raquel Bustamente Castillo by campus Estado de México 
• Bachelor degree Juan Carlos Hernández Cruz by campus Estado de México

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Explore our National faculty development activities offer conveniently located in one place

The faculty development and educational innovation center (CEDDIE for its initials in spanish) from Tecnológico de Monterrey has launched a new unique form for course registration for training courses.

How to access?

"The form can be found on the CEDDIE's website, specifically in the Faculty Development section or through the direct link [https://ceddie.tec.mx/es/desarrollo-docente](https://ceddie.tec.mx/es/desarrollo-docente).

Importance of institutional identification

It's essential that when registering, you use your institutional email account ending in @tec.mx. This measure ensures that only institution members have access to these resources.

Don't have your @tec.mx account active?

If you don't have your @tec.mx account active yet, follow these steps:

• Check the available course offerings at the following link: 
  • Course Calendar: https://bit.ly/coursecalendarceddie
• Send an email to ceddie.nacional@servicios.tec.mx to request assistance with your registration. Don't forget to include the course or courses you wish to enroll in, your employee ID number (L00000000), and your full name.

Multiple registrations

One of the advantages of this new form is that it will allow you to enroll in more than one course with a single registration, streamlining the enrollment process and saving you time.

With the launch of this new form, the CEDDIE remains committed to academic excellence and the comprehensive development of the Tec de Monterrey community. For more information, please visit the CEDDIE's website or contact the support team.

Contact:

- email: ceddie.nacional@servicios.tec.mx

- Web site: CEDDIE https://ceddie.tec.mx/

- The new form, video tutorial

On April 28, Dr. Mona Minkara shared teaching strategies in science for the inclusion of people with disabilities from her perspective as a researcher and teacher with visual disabilities at CEDDIE with Campus MTY professors.

Dr. Minkara currently collaborates with Dr. Cristina Reynaga in the project Assessing effects of Universal Design for Learning strategies to build inclusive classrooms in Medical School, whose objective is to analyze the effect of the conceptual framework of Universal Design for Learning in the teaching of Health Science topics through the development and evaluation of accessible and inclusive educational activities and technology-based three-dimensional tactile materials.

To learn more you can go to https://monaminkara.com/