Informe final convenio 1751-2017 Secretaria de Educación Distrital - USTA

Abstract

The University of Santo Tomás, USTA in the future, participated in the implementation of Middle Education strategies in 2015 through pedagogical and curricular accompaniment to 11 IEDs that allowed interacting with different actors in the educational exercise and in the consolidation of the EMF , developing the purpose of "providing solutions to the problems and needs of society and the country" (Universidad Santo Tomás, 2004). For 2016, academic, psychosocial and socio-occupational orientation support was developed for 27 District Educational Institutions focused by the SED and for the year 2017, it supported SED in the implementation of the "Integral Development of Secondary Education" project to 21 IEDs located in 13 locality of the city of Bogotá where the pedagogical accompaniment was carried out for the strengthening and transversalization of competences, the qualification of the offer in the secondary education and development of immersion and semi-immersion actions to the technical, technological and university formation. As a strategic ally of the District Education Secretariat, the USTA put into development of this association agreement, its experience in pedagogical accompaniment, forged during several years in the implementation of projects in secondary education. This allowed us to advance in the consolidation and sustainability of the project in each and every one of the 21 District Educational Institutions, accompanied by IEDs. The USTA supports comprehensive training and the possibility of guiding new actions towards young people belonging to district schools, while at the same time seeking, through its institutional philosophy and humanist vision, the consolidation of a more just and solidary society, through the improvement of the quality of educational processes. Santo Tomás University conceives the integral development of secondary education as a facilitator of the formation of young people in all its dimensions, by promoting academic preparation and support, preparation for life and facilitating transition mechanisms to higher education.