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A total of 285 teachers have received the 'Excellent Teacher' certification awarded by the DOCENTIA programme. This figure represents 44% of the total number of applications submitted by people who wanted to opt for this accreditation (645). This programme is developed under the auspices of the Madri+D foundation and is valid until December 2025.
Receiving the 'Excellent Teacher' certification facilitates obtaining other high-impact accreditations such as those from the 'Academia' program, the Audit program or those from university centers.
Congratulations to the Excellent Teachers of the DOCENTIA 2023 program of the @urjc! ? ? ?#SID24 pic.twitter.com/Q9pRfsjNve
— CIED URJC (@URJConline) November 15, 2024
According to Raquel Montes, Academic Director of Inteligencia Analítica, in her speech, “90% of Spanish universities participate in this programme. Only 21 have successfully completed the process and obtained certification, including the URJC, which is something we should be proud of.”
Montes pointed out that being an excellent teacher today means, in addition to knowing the content and transmitting it perfectly, “creating learning experiences that capture the attention of a generation of students who are surrounded by stimuli. You are doing a magnificent job, because it is not easy to teach young people who are used to having instant answers from the Internet or Artificial Intelligence. A generation capable of handling five screens at the same time and who, while listening to a lecture, can be managing their email or finishing assignments for another subject and who, although sometimes it seems to us that they are in 'airplane mode' during classes, we know that when they connect, they really do it.
The URJC professor also had some nice words for the students, who she said not only knew how to adapt to an unknown educational model (online) during confinement, but in recent weeks they have once again demonstrated that “learning goes beyond the classroom”, by going out to collect the necessary aid to assist those affected by the DANA in the Valencian Community. Some of them even went to the affected area.
XI Innovative Teachers Award
At the same event, the awards given by the Center for Innovation in Digital Education (CIED) to recognize the most innovative educational practices and their creators were presented.
The first prize went, on this occasion, to 'Learning from real practice: training in educational innovation for future secondary and high school teachers', by Raquel Garrido Abia, Almudena Macías Guillén and Oriol Borrás Gené.
Second place on the podium went to 'Podcast and Open Science: an experience on the airwaves', by Pablo Acosta Gallo.
Third place went to: 'Teaching the Natural Deduction system in Propositional Logic applying logical programming', by Joaquín Arias Herrero and Iván Ramírez Díaz.
The Vice-Rector for Teaching Staff, Carlos Enrique Cuesta, was in charge of presiding over the awards ceremony. He was accompanied by Mónica León, head of the Universitas XXI Foundation; Arturo Aguilera Fernández, director of Public Administration of the Central Territorial Directorate of Telefónica de España; and Jaime Urquiza Fuentes, director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Digital Education (CIED).