Pd1001 CRITICAL THINKING

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GENERAL GOAL

At the end of the course, the students will be able to:

1. Apply multiple intelligences to solve problems.

2. Develop the skills to apply processes and strategies, which direct the analysis of the problem and the planning, execution, supervision, and evaluation of solutions to structured and non- structured problems.

3. Relate the already existent information to the cognitive structure in a subjective way to obtain meaningful learning.

4. Show a disposition or favorable attitude in order to appreciate the significance of learning.

SYLLABUS

1. Introduction to Intelligence

2. Critical Thinking

3. Inductive and Analogous Thinking

4. Deductive Thinking

5. Analytical, Synthetic and Evaluative Thinking

6. Strategic Thinking

7. Megacognition

Exams

Feedback and Review

Pd1002 ACADEMIC LIFE

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GENERAL GOAL

The students will be able to adapt to the work culture of the Tec System, by being informed about it, which will facilitate their academic development and their independence at the TEC High school, through the guidance and help of trained teachers, family support, and extra-curricular activities.

SYLLLABUS

1. Welcome to the Tec: educational intentions, objectives, program, and methodology
2. You and the Tec High School: Mission and Educational Model
3. The Tec Model as a teaching strategy
4. The person as an integrated system
5. My intellectual dimension: learning styles, learning strategies and time administration
6. My emotional dimension: motivation, self-esteem and emotional intelligence
7. My social dimension: communication and collaborative work
8. My physical dimension: Eating habits and physical exercise
9. Discipline at the Tec: Academic and General Rules for the Students
10. Survey for the opinion of the students
11. Learning more about the Tec
12. Enrollment process
13. Evaluation of the course

Extracurricular activities

Academic follow-up

Monthly exams

Pd1003 QUALITY OF LIFE I

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GENERAL GOAL

As part of the general goal of this course, the students will be able to:

Become conscious of the responsibility they have to maintain an optimal quality of life, through self-evaluation, analysis and permanent reflection; to maintain a balance between the physical, intellectual, emotional, and social dimensions in their private lives.

• Develop abilities to work on a team, through knowledge and practice of the different roles that assure collaborative learning.
• Develop optimal study habits, through identification of factors that have an impact on learning, putting into practice a strategy of optimal administration of time.
• Know and experience the benefits of physical exercise in their quality of life, practicing a sport twice a week.
• Become aware of the importance of being in optimal general health, knowing the principles of an adequate diet.
• Become aware of the harmful effects that eating disorders cause in the quality of life of the human being, through knowledge of the causes and concrete actions to avoid them.
• Develop a culture of prevention of tobacco consumption and alcohol abuse, by knowing the consequences for the person and the community the person belongs to.
• Develop knowledge and acceptance of oneself by recognizing one’s personality and self-esteem.
• Identify, understand, and manage emotions adequately bye knowing and practicing skills of emotional intelligence.
• Become conscious of the importance of developing an adequate social interaction, by knowing and practicing skills of effective communication.

SYLLABUS

This course has as an essential goal the creation of consciousness that the optimal quality of life of a person is obtained through the development of the ability to reach an integral balance in health, taking into consideration the four dimensions which are present in the development of the human being: intellectual, physical, emotional, and social.

The topics delve into each of the four dimensions, and to their interrelation.

To support the beginning of the students´ academic life in the Tec High School, a 1^st module was included: “You and the Tec High School”. This module includes an analysis and reflexion on the different rules of this institution; also there is a practical review of the general rules on Collaborative Learning, which is one of the learning techniques of the new educational model of the ITESM.

Intellectual Dimension:

Physical Dimension:

Emotional Dimension:

Social Dimension:

Pd1004 CREATIVITY

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GENERAL GOAL

a) Abilities:

1. Develop the students´ creativity as an important tool of thinking, which will help them stimulate flexibility, originality, fluency, and mental elaboration.

2. Provide the basic knowledge on the subject of creativity, so they can value the importance this topic has today.

3. Develop their capacity to solve problems of daily life in a creative and more effective way, as a result of decision-making and conscious and reflective planning.

4. Provide the semantic and proceedural knowledge necessary for them to be capable of creating a new product.

5. Develop in the students the abilities related to teamwork, decision making and problem solving.

b) Attitudes:

1. Promote in the students a positive attitude toward the development of creativity.

2. Motivate the students to consider many alternatives and evaluate each one of them before taking action.

3. Promote a positive attitude toward flexibility and tolerance of other people’s ideas.

4. Propitiate an open and optimistic attitude toward change, provided it is for the better.

c) Values:

1. That students find in teamwork a valuable source of personal enrichment.

2. Promote respect toward other peoples´ ideas.

3. That students understand the problems of their communities and know that they are capable of collaborating toward a solution.

4. That students understand that to reach the goals of the course, it is necessary to be constant and to participate actively.

5. That students become responsible, participating in class and bringing all the homework.

SYLLABUS

At the beginning of course the students will learn the basis of creativity to understand what it consists of, how it is developed, how it can be inhibited, the ways in which it is expressed, applied, developed, and the importance creativity has in their lives.

In a second stage, the student will develop through the systematic, conscious, and directed practice, the four skills related to creativity according to J.P. Guilford: a) Fluency b) Flexibility c) Originality and d) Elaboration.

These four skills, working together, will give students a) the sensibility to identify a situation that can be improved, b) the capacity to produce an original and useful idea that makes this situation better c) The ability to develop this idea and put it into practice.

In a third stage, students will learn different techniques to activate the creative process whose purpose is to identify objects or situations that can be improved and propose creative solutions.

In the next stage, students will learn some strategies that will give them the necessary tools to transform a creative idea into a tangible product working in a team. This procedure is known as CREATEC. At the end of the course, each group must produce its own invention and show it to the class as a result of the development of their creativity. Finally, in the last stage of the course, students will apply an internal and external evaluation process to identify aspects of the design that could be better and proceed to make the necessary corrections.

Pd2001 CREATIVE THINKING

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GENERAL GOAL

1. Develop skills in the application of convergent and divergent thinking in the solution of problems.

2. Apply the strategies and techniques of lateral thinking to generate non-conventional ideas and give creative solutions to problems.

3. Develop semantic and artistic creation, recognition of body movement and the three-dimensional aspect of all space, to generate lateral thinking with the possibility of applying it in different contexts.

4. Develop the skills of the right hemisphere of the brain.

SYLLABUS

1. Introduction to Creativity

2. Divergent thinking

3. Lateral thinking

4. Right hemispheric thinking

5. Creative thinking for problem solving

Pd2002 QUALITY OF LIFE II

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GENERAL GOAL

As part of the general goals of this course, students will be able to:

Achieve a higher comprehension of themselves and their surroundings, through the analysis of the physical , intellectual, emotional, and social aspects of the person.

Develop meaningful learning through the knowledge and application of different study techniques.

Understand the real significance of sexuality as a primary axis in the harmonic development of the human being, valuating the importance decision-making has in this aspect.

Become aware of the importance of a culture of prevention in the use of addictive substances, through recognizing the diverse protection factors and the risk involved.

Learn about the different types of stress and their effects on overall health, by knowing oneself and applying diverse techniques.

Become aware of the importance of personal development in healthy interpersonal relationships.

Know the strategies to solve conflicts as a way to maintain an adequate social interaction, through the analysis of real situations that facilitate the transference of knowledge.

Develop the ability to make decisions, a spirit of personal improvement, and the practice of respect and tolerance for other people.

SYLLABUS

The main axis of this course is decision making, from which the four health dimensions branch out; thus a relationship is established between topics within each of the dimensions and the interrelation of these dimensions. The four dimensions are a continuity of Quality of Life I.

v Intellectual Dimension

v Physical Dimension

v Emotional Dimension

v Social Dimension

Pd3001 CIVICS

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GENERAL GOAL

The students will develop reflection processes and moral maturity through analysis, discussion, and solution of problems of an ethical and moral nature. This will help the students participate actively in the process of support and transformation in their personal lives and their environment, from the posture of personal values.

SYLLABUS

1. Towards an approximation to ethics and moral

2. The human being: philosophical anthropology

3. The human being as a creature of values

4. Universal values and their presence in society

5. Moral values according to Human Rights

6. Contemporary moral problems

7. Towards a new morality

Pd4001 HUMAN RELATIONS

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GENERAL GOAL

The students will recognize themselves as humans and will identify the characteristics of their social community, looking to establish responsible and constructive interpersonal relations that point to the construction of a better world. Also, the students will interpret, experiment, and value life as an opportunity to recognize and accept themselves as beings that have a mission in life.

SYLLABUS

1. Social Group

2. Interaction and communication skills.

3. The human being: identity and personality

4. Love as an essential element of human life

Pd4002 VOCATIONAL COUNSELING

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GENERAL GOAL

Through the courses of Vocational Counseling, students will be able to:

1. Develop abilities for decision-making in the election of a major, through the process of gathering information about themselves and about different majors, participating as an observer of the professional field, in order to become more objective in the choice of a major.

2. Learn the different areas of human activity through different activities and discussion groups in order to identify diverse opportunities for their professional development.

3. Use the different sources of information to learn more about professions, and the professional opportunities that the environment offers, in order to broaden the information needed for an objective choice, based on such knowledge.

4. Show an attitude of tolerance and respect toward the interests and opinions of their peers with respect to different professions, through the activities carried out, in order to develop collaborative work skills.

SYLLABUS

• Self - knowledge (interests, skills, learning styles, personality)
• Planning of life and career
• Ethics and professional values
• The reality of the work place
• Topics in the work place
• The College Enrollment process

Pd5001 VOCATIONAL COUNSELING

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GENERAL GOAL

The students, considering external and internal sources of information, will be able to identify characteristics of their personality, compare and generate their best vocational options to decide on the best plan for their life and career.

Syllabus:

1. Know yourself

2. Know your environment

3. Decision making

Pd5002 LEADERSHIP AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

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GENERAL GOAL

Students will be able to identify and solve problems through the analysis of real situations.

Students will act as agents of change in their community participation in a project for social development.

Students will become aware of the needs of society through discussion, as well as documentary and field research.

Students will develop social skills such as active listening, emotional management, auto control, assertiveness in communication and team work, through the design and practice of a project of communitary development.

SYLLABUS

1. The young person, as an agent of change.
2. Awareness of the needs of the community.
3. ¿What is a project of communitary development?
4. Presentation and analysis of proposals to improve the community.
5. Development of strategies to implement a project of communitary service.
6. Putting into practice the communitary project.
7. Evaluation and feedback of the communitary project.

Pd6001 ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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GENERAL GOAL

Enforce the students´ potential to be leaders and entrepreneur, through the development of their skills to conceive, plan, and sell an innovative idea with an economical impact, based on their personal goals and the identification of the needs of his surroundings.

It is also intended that the students will appreciate and value the importance of having initiative in their personal and professional formation, and that they acquire skills to work on a team, applying the basic methods and tools to reach their goals.

SYLLABUS

I. Discovering the world of entrepreneurship.

1. Entrepreneurship and economy

2. ¿Which are my goals and personal values? (Personal finances)

3. Alternatives for entrepreneurship. Implications and relationship to personal financial goals.

II. Definition of the entrepreneurial project

4. Research and marketing

III. Development of the entrepreneurial project

5. The process of planning a project

6. ¿What resources are needed to initiate the project?

IV. Transcendence of entrepreneurship

7. Final presentation of the project

8. How to protect your project

9. ¿What are the benefits of enterprising action?

Pd5004. Life and career planning.

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To know and to understand relevant information about tendencies and need about jobs and social environments. To access relevant information to make decisions about their future. To be assertive to choose the best information. To know about theory of constraints and apply to make their life’s plan. To study the benefits to have cultural literacy. To study the professional and personal good language management impact in his future.

Acad. Period. Spring & fall
Language of instruction: spanish.
Teacher´s profiles
Bachelor in bussines, human resources. Master in human development, education or philosophy.

Fecha de la última actualización: 25 de mayo de 2004(M)