Model Tec21
About Tec21´s model
Our new Educational Model, unique in the world, triggers and enhances your innovation capabilities, allowing you not only to be current, but to be an agent of change in unprecedented times, in which education is experiencing a complete transformation.
Why is it unique?
Our challenge-based learning model is based on four key components:
Student learning during their undergraduate studies is focused on the student's relationship with their teacher and with the environment, in which students develop disciplinary and transversal skills, by solving challenges linked to real problems and demonstrating their mastery of through various evidence of learning. In this Model, the central unit of learning are challenges.
Before you chose a career, now you choose a path:
1. You will acquire the fundamentals of the area, you will know related careers and you will confirm which career to choose.
2. You will develop the core competencies of your career through more focused challenges, while expanding your university experience.
3. You will continue to strengthen skills and give your career your personal touch based on your interests, passions, and plans, through the wide range of concentrations, stays, and certificates available.
Our professors are protagonists of one of the most profound transformations in the history of the Tec and of a paradigm shift that has aroused the interest of the national and international academy.
What teaching practices distinguish them? They create active learning environments and find in challenges a trigger for the formation of the disciplinary and transversal skills that you require as a student, guiding you to transfer that knowledge to real contexts. In addition, they are up-to-date and linked to their practice and work in a multidisciplinary way.
Memorable Experience
You will develop as a multicultural, ethical, responsible and leading person of the changes you want to see in your society and in the world.
With this new model, we will provide you with and integral formation for you to increase your personal talent, leadership and self-fulfillment, considering your spiritual, emotional and physical balance.
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Wellness and Counseling
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Healthy and wealthy and life style
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Spirituality
At Tecnológico de Monterrey we listen to you and look for your wellness in different life areas. Because of this, we offer you counseling services to listen to you and be with you in any situation you are going through, whether it is of emotional, economic, academic, vocational or legal nature, through an attention and support line available 24/7 and through our counsellors.
Each student is important for us. “Tqueremos” is an integral accompany program to early prevention and detection of any type of problematic in Tec´s students. Through educational community orientation, awareness and training, “Tqueremos” stays with you in the different risky situations to which you might be exposed nowadays and communication channels are enabled for you with the purpose of providing you with the emotional and external resources needed to overcome any existing conflict.
We give you orientation and different activities for you to discover what passions you, what really makes sense to you, what “moves” you and fulfills you of meaning, promoting meditation and reflection spaces.
At Tecnológico de Monterrey we promote healthcare through an ecosystem in which integral development tools for your physical and mental dimensions are provided to you. Also, prevention or detection campaigns are promoted throughout the entire year so you can take underpinned decisions about your healthcare.
Therefore, you have medical emergency and nursery service in case you require. Also, we advise you to take care of your eating habits, physical activity and sleep hours for a better personal and academic performance.
“Punto Blanco” is a silent space where you can be in peace with yourself. This space invites you to deep reflection, meditation and spiritual development , regardless your specific religious beliefs. At “Punto Blanco” you will find an events, encounters and tools schedule to know in a more profound form about your own spiritual tradition and about others too.
The world looks at us
Our educational model has aroused the interest of the national and international academic community. The organizations and government agencies that have participated in its incremental implementation since 2014 are increasingly satisfied.
Rafael Reif
"Today it is clearer to me than ever that the Tec and its community share the aspirations and goals of MIT."
- Rafael Reif, 2018, Chancellor of MIT.
David Kelley
"What they're trying to do to bring learning into the 21st century is great."
- David Kelley, 2012, CEO of IDEO Inventor of the mouse and the toothpaste tube. Video message addressed to the Tec about Tec21.
Michelle R Weise
"The progress that the Tec is making with a view to the future in which each student will learn through challenges that are connected to the real world is incredible."
- Michelle R Weise, 2017, Strada Education Network.
Kerry Healey
"The Tec is a very visionary institution. They make sure that people have the skills they will need in the next 100 years for new jobs…”
- Kerry Healey, 2017, President Babson College, Leading University for Entrepreneurship.
