Education

The graduate has cultivated their intellect by posing the fundamental questions of human existence and understanding themselves through a Catholic worldview, which enables them to comprehend reality based on the principles of good, truth, beauty, and unity. This worldview underpins their professional actions as an educator and allows them to embrace the dignity of their vocation, contributing to the evangelization of culture in specific times and places, in service to their country and the world, through a practice of professional excellence.

They have a profound understanding of the human person in its entirety (dimensions, relationships, particularity) and recognize the need to achieve their fullness, starting with themselves.

They value the importance of the foundations of education as the basis for understanding curricular, didactic, and educational management aspects, and the relationship with their practical application. They possess solid knowledge of pedagogy, curriculum, didactics, classical and contemporary educational theories, and the content they are required to teach. They understand the different anthropological and epistemological assumptions of these theories and can critically comprehend them—with contributions from the history of education—and eventually transform them to make them more aligned with the integral development of the person.

Their investigative attitude, mastery of language, analytical skills, and responsible use of technology enable them to seek and communicate the truth, integrating knowledge into their teaching.

Human Dimension

• Sense of Transcendence:
  1. Constantly seeks the truth in accordance with the teachings of the Catholic Church.
  2. Understands and shares their Catholic identity.

• Ethical Awareness:
  1. Pursues the common good.
  2. Embodies integrity, lives out values in daily life
  3. Respect themselves and others.

• Autonomy:
  1. Possesses self-knowledge and demonstrates personal agency in decision-making.
  2. Responsible and organized
  3. Open to critical reflection based on axiological principles, seeking contributions and solutions,
  4. Shows readiness for change.
  5. Assumes their role and bears witness through their work.

• Social Projection:
  1. Demonstrates a vocation for service and promotes development.
  2. Values family, respects and cares for the environment
  3. Advocates for culture.
  4. Respect the identity of the student and the agents with whom they interact..

• Sense of Belonging:
  1. Exhibits loyalty to their institution
  2. Demonstrates national, regional, and local identity.

Intellectual Dimension

• Leadership:
  1. IInspires and motivates those around them
  2. Is entrepreneurial, and perseveres in achieving their goals.
  3. Works collaboratively with tolerance, empathy, responsibility, discipline, initiative, and creativity.
  4. Easily communicates.
  5. Is proactive.

• Capacity for Innovation:
  1. Possesses research skills
  2. Critical and analytical, and integrates knowledge effectively.
  3. Open to change, creative, and entrepreneurial.

Professional Dimension

• Understands the fundamental theoretical basis of their field
• Applies scientific principles effectively.
• Mastery of technological aspects and procedures relevant to their career
• Innovative and proactive in their professional domain.
• Handles sufficiently the ICT
• Efficiently master at least one foreign language
• Develops pedagogical and management processes based on theory and professional practice:
  1. DDemonstrates the ability to teach how to learn.
  2. Knows and handles methodologies of his specialty.
  3. Designs, contextualizes and doses the contents based on the context and its diversity.
  4. Has updated disciplinary and pedagogical knowledge, which guides his performance.
  5. Plans and evaluates with sufficiency and technical knowledge.
  6. Sequences, analyzes and synthesizes concepts with mastery in the development of his activities.
  7. Designs and produces educational material for the best development of his activities.
  8. Uses new technologies.
  9. Has sufficient knowledge about inclusive education and applies it in his practice.
  10. Knows and uses elements of educational evaluation, such as indicators, techniques and instruments.
  11. Directs his pedagogical work towards achieving educational quality and its continuous improvement.
  12. Has sufficient and updated knowledge of educational management and legislation and applies it.
  13. Masters communication skills.
  14. Values ​​and recognizes the different profiles of students and diagnoses their training needs.
  15. Questions and argues opinions reflectively, focusing on valid knowledge.
  16. Demonstrates sufficient capacity for educational research and innovation and also mastery of both, and applies them in pedagogical work.
  17. Demonstrates sufficient knowledge of the social, cultural and economic reality of the context.
  18. Assumes a positive attitude towards research.
  19. Applies the methodology based on the different research paradigms.
  20. Has the disposition to diagnose, design and propose responses to the problems of the context.
  21. Applies action research responding to educational problems.

• Masters epistemological and research aspects, and develops them in the professional practice:
  1. Develops entrepreneurial skills.
  2. Promotes the participation of the family in the environment in which it performs, especially the educational one.
  3. Manages the development of social projects with NGOs and other institutions.
  4. Designs and executes projects, consultancies, counseling acts and workshops, and handles administrative elements.
  5. Helps in the achievement of a true civilization of love.
  6. Organizes and promotes extracurricular activities of a cultural nature.
  7. Interacts with various educational actors to seek allies that enhance knowledge and appreciation of culture.
  8. Promotes the establishment of synergies in interaction with other educational institutions.