The Fundación Cimientos Accompanying Schools Program

Experience in the Province of Mendoza

Abstract

In this article we explain what the Fundación Cimientos Accompanying Schools Program consists of, focusing on its design, its conceptual pillars, its methodology and the different pedagogical strategies that are carried out for its implementation and putting into practice. Likewise, we present some results that arise from the implementation of the year 2023 in the province of Mendoza and that focus on the Final Integrative Project (TIF) prepared by the secondary school teachers who participate in the Program. In this TIF, the participants in the teaching path design a project to support school trajectories in an institutional manner, whose core consists of putting together 4 support devices based on the problems identified at school and focusing on socio-emotional skills. In this article we present some general data that arises from the evaluation of the Mendoza 2023 TIF, carried out by the Program team. In addition, we analyzed a selection of four TIFs, where we observed, in more specific terms, how the Program participants addressed their slogan. At last, in the final reflections of the article, we return to the most relevant points of the Program and put them in dialogue with the constructions of the participants.