Recognition of innovative teachers

The event, held today in the auditorium of the Soacha extension and broadcast via Facebook Live, Around one hundred people from the university community participated in person, along with the Academic Vice-Rector, Dr. Víctor Hugo Londoño, Dr. Isabel Quintero Uribe, General Secretary, the Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Javier Gracia, the Dean of the Faculty of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, Rafael Hutchison, the Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the School of Training and Learning, EFAD, Dr. María Nancy Garzón, and the Dean of the Faculty of Administrative and Accounting Sciences, Miguel Alejandro Flechas, among others.

During his address, the Academic Vice-Rector highlighted that this space began in 2019 as an exchange of innovative experiences and has gradually become the primary platform for promoting the adoption of MEDIT. “Today we can celebrate tangible results of what the adoption of innovation truly means.”.

He also invited deans, coordinators, and teachers to continue his example by recognizing good teaching practices.

She concluded her presentation by commenting on the dissemination of the results of the Innovative Teacher Observatory initiative, "My 21st Century Teacher." "This is very important, since it is the students who nominate them in their training process to the knowledge manager, making the Transmodern Digital Educational Model visible.".

Category: Innovative Experiences

In this category, the following students received distinction: in tenth place, Miguel Antonio González from the Accounting Program, Ubaté campus; in ninth place, Carlos Alfonso Trujillo from the Business Administration Program, Ubaté campus; in eighth place, Emma Lucía Zambrano from the Animal Science Program, Fusagasugá campus; in seventh place, Iván Olimpo Velásquez from the Animal Science Program, Ubaté campus; in sixth place, Andrés Alberto Gutiérrez Morales from the Business Administration Program, Girardot campus; and in fifth place, Laguandio del Cristo Banda Sánchez from the Agronomic Engineering Program, Fusagasugá campus.

In fourth place was Shirley Andrea Flores from the Animal Science Program at the Ubaté campus. Third place went to Carlos Arturo Narváez Benavidez from the Business Administration program at the Fusagasugá campus, who received a 200,000 peso voucher from the Cafam Compensation Fund. Second place was awarded to Erik Ramírez from the Systems Engineering program at the Facatativá campus, who received a two-night, three-day stay at the Hotel Kualamá in Melgar. First place went to Daniel Armando Robledo from the Environmental Engineering program at the Facatativá campus, who received a two-night, three-day stay at the Hotel Corales in Cartagena.

Subsequently, Dr. Liliana Milena Castro Bastidas, Head of Academic Development, explained the importance of the Innovative Teachers initiative: My 21st Century Teacher, which recognizes teachers who have made learning an innovative experience and for which students nominated them..

Category: That's my teacher

In this category, sixth place was awarded to Professor Roger Edison Farías from the Soacha extension of the Industrial Engineering program. Fifth place went to Miguel Antonio González from the Ubaté branch of the Business Administration program. Fourth place was awarded to Luis Hernando Rubio Mora from the Nursing program at the Girardot branch. Third place went to Luis Fernando Rincón from the Business Administration program at the Fusagasugá campus. Second place was awarded to Daniel Cubillos Pedraza from the Facatativá extension of the Agronomic Engineering program, and first place went to Arley Prieto Moreno from the Chía extension of the Systems and Computer Engineering program.

A panel discussion was also held, moderated by Dr. Liliana Milena Castro Bastidas, with the participation of faculty members John Alexander Moreno Sandoval, Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences; Dr. Luz Mireya Rincón, Coordinator of the Public Accounting Program at the Chía campus; and Abner Satir Ramírez, Manager of the School of Teacher Training and Learning. The discussion focused on the impact of MEDIT on the practice of knowledge management.

Finally, it is worth highlighting that this entire pedagogical strategy aims to help teachers create a free individual who understands themselves through others and nature, who, through dialogue and construction as a regulative ideal, forges their identity and personal development, appropriates the local and ancestral context, and acts as a transhuman person who transforms reality.

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