Extraordinary Call for Tutors for the Technical Professional Program in Agricultural Production

Registration and

Document Verification

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• First. Document verification.The Academic Subdirectorate of IPRED verifies that the applicant has submitted all the documents required for registration.

• Second. Formation of the Tutor Candidate Selection Committee. According to the provisions of Agreement No. 105 of 1999, this body is responsible for conducting the entire evaluation process and establishing the evaluation formats and scoring criteria for the tests.

• Third. Verification of requirements. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee verifies that the résumés meet the minimum requirements for the profile to which applicants are applying.

Evaluation of

Résumé

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• Fourth. Evaluation of résumé. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee conducts the evaluation of the résumé based on the criteria established in Agreement No. 105 of 1999. The Academic Coordination Office will inform candidates who obtain 24 points or more in the résumé evaluation about the next step (submission of the essay). Candidates who obtain scores below 24 will not continue in the process.

Essay

Submission

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• Fifth. Evaluation of the essay. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee evaluates the essay submitted by the applicants who met the minimum score in the previous step, according to the defined criteria. The essay must be defended during the interview.

The essay will be evaluated only for those applicants who successfully pass the stages of requirements verification and résumé evaluation. The essay must be prepared in accordance with the following guidelines and within the dates established in the call schedule:

Essay Guidelines

At the Universidad Industrial de Santander, it is established that ^[[1]] in both the distance and virtual education modalities, the relationship between student–teacher interaction hours and independent work hours (HTI: Independent Work Hours) differs from the face-to-face modality. Interaction hours between teacher and student (HIP) are mostly synchronous (between 70% and 80%) and take place mainly online, although the program includes a proportion of academic activities that are carried out in physical spaces established in the educational project (between 20% and 30%). In the virtual modality, student work is mostly asynchronous (over 80%) and primarily developed online, mediated by ICT tools.

The higher proportion of independent work hours makes one of the main tutorial guidelines the detailed organization of interactions, which becomes a key factor in the training process within the distance and virtual modalities. In addition, participation in synchronous tutorial sessions is not established as mandatory.

• Topic: Write an argumentative essay ^[[2]] presenting the critical aspects that make interaction with students in distance and virtual modalities possible and, based on your arguments, describe the concrete actions you would implement.

1. The argumentative essay must be submitted in PDF format, containing between 700 and 1000 words, in Arial font, size 11, with 1.5 line spacing and 2 cm margins on all sides (approximately 2 pages in length).

2. The essay must indicate the course of the profile for which the applicant is applying, which serves as the basis for the essay’s construction. 

3. The evaluation criteria are as follows: organization, coherence and relevance; use of language; argumentative and creative capacity; validity of the addressed concepts; and updated references in the bibliography.

[1] UIS Academic Council. Agreement No. 023 of 2022. Approving the institutional guidelines for the creation, reform, and modification of academic programs at Universidad Industrial de Santander.

[2] Fazio, D. & Roa, S. Guía para la elaboración de un texto argumentativo. Retrieved from https://leo.uniandes.edu.co/guia-para-la-elaboracion-de-textos-argumentativos/

Interview 

Appointment

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• Sixth. Interview. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee will schedule the interviews according to the criteria established at the beginning of the process.

Applicants who achieve the minimum essay score will receive an email with the date and time of their interview. During the interview, the following aspects will be assessed:

• Essay defense: Present and justify the topic developed in the essay.

• Teaching experience defense: Demonstrate experience and specific competencies in the teaching of the course(s) of interest.

• Virtual tutoring defense: Demonstrate experience and competencies in the use of ICT tools and virtual education platforms.

• Perspective as an IPRED tutor: Express your interest in serving as an IPRED tutor, showing personal and collective growth goals that contribute to the ongoing improvement of educational dynamics through dialogic interaction with students, in accordance with the Institutional Pedagogical Model.

PUBLICATION OF

Results.

• Seventh. Publication of results. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee prepares a record documenting the evaluations of the candidates and submits it to the IPRED Directorate for the publication of the corresponding resolution.