INTEDU Tool box reduce educational lag

The main problem in Latin America is social and economic inequality. The origin is found in the active educational lag, with students who are functionally illiterate, a problem that has increased with the Covid-19 crisis. Our proposal is to apply the "INTEDU" program on a continental level, to attack the root of the problem, which is: not being able to understand the instructions in the lessons, classes, homework and exams.

Based on a digital or printed "Tool Box" that contains 5 concrete and useful study techniques, children understand all the indications of the teaching-learning process, whether these indications come from their books, teachers or tutorial videos; They discover that they can understand and solve their lessons on their own and will gradually develop self-taught thinking and attitudes; which will reduce the functional and statistical educational lag. This proposal can be applied in both urban and rural areas. 

Specific problem: increase in educational lag due to Covi-19 contingency.

In the context prior to the pandemic, there were already more than 30.8 million people in Mexico with educational backwardness, according to the latest figures provided by INEGI in 2016. In Latin America, it is estimated that 8% of adolescents and young minors 25-year-olds did not manage to complete at least four years of schooling, while that percentage rises to 14 percent for the population between 25 and 34 years old.
The COVID-19 pandemic left a two-year educational gap for almost 10 million students after the closure of all schools in the country, according to the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO). Before the pandemic, Mexicans reached 8.8 years of schooling equivalent to complete secondary school, however, virtual classes and school dropouts could cause the indicator to decrease by 1.8 years, that is, until the first year of secondary school.

 Our solution helps: teachers, parents, students and society in general.
The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean are home to more than 7 million teachers, representing 4% of the region's workforce

What is your solution? Educational Intervention Program to reduce educational lag in Latin America. What is it? It is a digital and printed "Toolbox" with 5 study techniques, which will be provided to teachers, parents, volunteers, or even directly to children to apply in a generalized way. What does it do? It helps students understand the prompts in all their study lessons, assignments, and tests. What processes and technology do you use? Based on the constructivist methodology, children learn to develop self-taught thoughts and attitudes. The technology it uses are digital editorial design and printing programs with biodegradable materials. 

Who does your solution serve and how will the solution affect their lives?

This solution will mainly serve the rural population and marginalized communities; It will help them to improve their lives individually and collectively since with the "INTEDU" program they will learn to be aware of their reality and the causes that have originated, in this way to be able to understand the present and create solutions to change their situation. They will be informed, creative and self-taught students and citizens, they will create their own projects on culture, economy, ecology, reproductive education, mobility, security, etc. In the medium and long term.

Describe the target population of lives you are working to improve directly and significantly.

We are currently applying the INTEDU program in rural and indigenous communities in the northern part of the State of Mexico in the country of Mexico.

Who are they and in what ways are they currently neglected?

The people of these regions are abandoned in pedagogical terms, since since they do not have internet connections or the economic resources to access the internet, they do not continue with distance education. The local education system does nothing to try to integrate them, they only send notices of what they have to read or the activities they have to do without any explanation from the teachers, leaving the parents to take care of it, and many times they are illiterate.

What are you doing to understand their needs and how are you engaging them as you develop the solution?

We go directly to the communities to hear and feel what they think and feel about it. At the same time we teach and provide concrete study techniques so that children understand their school lessons and little by little they become self-taught; we show them in practice that they can learn with, without or in our countries: despite the obsolete educational system we have. We give them confidence that continuing to study will bring benefits to their lives, we also advise them to organize and execute social projects.

How will the solution address your needs?

The solution we propose will bring benefits at different times of its application. 1 avoid educational lag. 2 attain a higher level of studies. 3 Develop self-sustaining community projects (ecologically and economically). 4 Reduce the social inequality gap. 5 Reduce violence in general. 6 Have systematic and general well-being. As children become professionals in careers that meet the needs of their communities, they will return those benefits to their community as entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs to increase the spiral of well-being.

Our solution aligns perfectly with the challenge. We support teachers and educational institutions directly by providing them with the "INTEDU Tool Box" so that they can apply it implicitly, not only in their plans and programs, but also in a practical way in the day to day of his pedagogical work. But we also help them indirectly by providing the INTEDU program to their students and parents, in this way it becomes a tool that is echoing beyond the classrooms. INTEDU helps develop future skills for students today, right now. 

We are in Pilot. Since we are applying the project in 4 communities in the municipality of Villa del Carbón (2 of them are indigenous communities) Municipal Headquarters, San Luis Taxhimay, Loma Alta Taxhimay and San Isidro del Bosque. In these communities we have served an average of 50 students of all levels of basic education.

INTEDU's innovative approach is that it is simple and practical, that it attacks the root of the problem and solves it in a very short time, it also has the added value of being a catalyst in the teaching-learning process, since it helps to achieve the so-called learning significant in students. It can be applied from primary and secondary level to high school, regardless of the pedagogical background, or the socio-economic or geographical conditions. It can be applied at the beginning of a school year, in the middle of the process or during the vacation period. It is useful for both teachers and parents and especially for students. 

The central technology that drives our solution is simple, it is simply to use editorial design software, to make the Tool Box in reading formats compatible with any cell phone, tablet or computer, at the same time for the physical editions of the Tool box the common printing technique, but used recycled or biodegradable paper. And a YouTube or vimeo platform and an Internet page to make small tutorials on how to use the Tool Box, and also to monitor progress and answer questions from teachers, parents or students and of course to share success stories.

The use of ToolBox in other areas of social projects is successful, it is used in campaigns of non-governmental organizations to inform the population about specific issues such as: ecology, security, gender equity, health, human rights, etc. In addition, they manage to motivate people to take real action on these issues at the local, regional or international level. Here are some examples and also an article written by Ricardo Miranda on the application of the INTEDU Project in a rural community in Mexico.

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othe examples:
https://issuu.com/unicef-tacro...
https://www.greenpeace.org/sta...
https://amnistia.org.mx/conten...

The risks presented by this solution are physical printing, that at some point there is an over-demand of physical toolbox orders, recycled paper will be used to contaminate or contaminate and the format will be in the smallest possible space and with only a maximum of 8 pages.

Another risk of a social nature is that it affects the interests of political groups that wish to keep the population at those levels of educational backwardness and functional illiteracy. for which we are preventing with an always sincere and positive speech about the scope of this project, specifying that it will bring common benefits for all and in an influential and respectful way.

How many people does your solution currently serve? to 200 How many will he serve in a year? to 70,000 In five years? 2,000,000

Our impact objectives plan to achieve them through our organization and the link of teamwork with institutions, non-governmental organizations, private companies and through the scale of replication approaches. 

We are based on the statistical indicators of CONEVAL in the area of social development and with regard to the progress and results in the application of the INTEDU program, we base you on statistics of school achievement of the benefited students.

 
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we are 2 full-time and 3 part-time workers and 2 intermittent contractors. In total 7 members.

Our team is perfectly positioned to offer this solution, since I have a degree in Educational Intervention, graduated from the National Pedagogical University of Mexico, I have 12 years of experience in socio-educational impact projects and I have worked at all levels of basic education I also know the public education systems (federal and state), as well as different private education systems. Our team is made up of other specialists with degrees in nutrition, art, design, law and advertising, all related to education and child development.

We are running to be able to financially finance the INTEDU program on a large scale and thus help our country and the Latin American region to take advantage of the health crisis and take a great leap in the social and economic development of our nations.

We need to improve accounting practices, targeting investors with the greatest financial potential.

And get closer to companies that help us monitor and evaluate our project in terms of data collection / use, impact measurement.

We want to make alliances of Distribution of products / services to expand our customer base.