PROCESS

Steps

.

• First. Receipt and verification of documents. The Academic Subdirectorate of IPRED identifies that the applicant has provided the documents required for registration.

• Second. Formation of the Selection Committee of Candidates for Tutors. as established in Agreement 105 of 1999, which states that this body will be responsible for carrying out the entire evaluation process and will establish formats for evaluation and weighting of scores for the tests.

• Third. Verification of requirements. The Selection Committee of Candidates for Tutors verifies that the resumes meet the minimum requirements for the profile to which they are presented.

• Fourth. Valuation of resume. The Selection Committee of Candidates for Tutors carries out the evaluation of the resume based on the criteria established in Agreement 105 of 1999. The Academic Coordination will inform candidates who obtain 24 points or more in the resume evaluation about the step to follow (sending the essay). Candidates who score below 24 do not continue in the process.

• Fifth. Assessment of the trial. The Selection Committee of Tutor Candidates evaluates the essay delivered according to the defined criteria, to the applicants who met the minimum score in the previous step. The essay must be supported during the interview.

• Sixth. Interview. The Tutor Candidate Selection Committee will schedule the interviews according to the criteria defined at the beginning of the process. The Academic Subdirectorate will contact those who pass the resume assessment phase and send the essay, to summon them to the interview and support of the essay within the dates established by the selection committee.

• Seventh. Publication of results. The Selection Committee of Candidates for Tutors prepares the minutes in which the evaluations of the candidates are recorded and this will be sent to the IPRED Directorate for the publication of the corresponding resolution.

REGISTRATION AND

Document Verification

.

Those interested in participating in the call must fill out the following REGISTRATION form and upload in PDF format the 3 files listed below:

• 1 PDF file with the application letter

• 1 PDF file with the resume in the UIS format and supports of what is reported in the resume (copy of the titles and degree certificates, teaching and work experience, academic productivity, certifications, etc.).

• 1 PDF file with the essay according to the theme and guidelines

It is important that contact details such as cell phone number, landline number and email are correct and updated, so that communication can be established in a timely manner at the time required.

VERIFICATION OF REQUIREMENTS AND

Resume Assessment

.

The Selection Committee of Candidates for Tutors carries out the evaluation of the resume based on the criteria established in Agreement 105 of 1999. The Academic Coordination will inform candidates who obtain 24 points or more in the resume evaluation about the step to follow (sending the essay). Candidates who score below 24 do not continue in the process.

ESSAY

Valoration

.

The assessment of the essay will be carried out for those applicants who pass the stages of review of requirements and assessment of the resume.  This essay must be prepared taking into account the following guidelines and on the dates established in the call schedule:

Essay theme: Write an argumentative essay in which you present what are the critical aspects to make possible the interaction with students in distance and virtual modalities and, from your arguments, what concrete actions you would carry out.

Guidelines for the essay: At the Industrial University of Santander it is established [2] that in the distance modality and in the virtual modality the relationship between the hours of interaction with the teacher and the hours of independent work (HIP: HTI) have a higher proportion of HTI than in the face-to-face modality. The hours of interaction between the teacher and the student (HIP) are mostly synchronous (between 70 and 80%) and are mainly developed online (between 70 and 80%), although the program establishes 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, the development of HIPs is mainly asynchronous (over 80%) and mostly online, mediated by ICT (over 80%).

The higher proportion of hours of independent work makes one of the main orientations of tutorial type is the detailed organization of interactions that becomes a fundamental factor of the training process in distance and virtual modalities. In addition, participation in synchronous tutoring sessions is not mandatory.

1. The argumentative essay must be submitted in PDF format, have between 700 and 1000 words, with Arial font size 11, a line spacing of 1.5 and margins 2 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm x 2 cm (represents an approximate length of 2 pages).

2. If you are applying to profiles from different academic programs, you will need to submit an essay for each program. If they are profiles of the same academic program, you only have to send one essay.

3. The criteria to be evaluated are: Organization, coherence and relevance, Use of language, Argumentative and creative capacity, Validity of the concepts addressed, Updated reference of the bibliography.

INTERVIEW

Citation

.

The assessment of the interview will be carried out for those applicants who pass the stages of review of requirements and assessment of the resume.

The interview must be prepared taking into account the following guidelines and on the dates established in the call schedule:

Support of teaching experience: the candidate must demonstrate his experience and specific skills in the area of the subject (s) of interest as a teacher in an Educational Institution of Secondary or Higher Education, consistent with the institutional certificates supported in the attached documentation.

Support as a virtual tutor: the candidate must demonstrate their experience and skills in the management of ICT tools and virtual education platforms.

Perspective as an IPRED tutor teacher: the candidate must express his interest as an IPRED tutor teacher, through some projection of personal and collective improvement that allows the constant improvement of the educational dynamics in the dialogic interaction with the student, according to the UIS Institutional Pedagogical Model

PUBLICATION OF

Results

.

The Selection Committee of Candidates for Tutors prepares minutes in which it registers the evaluations of the candidates and sends it to the IPRED Management for the publication of the corresponding resolution.