OUR COIL EXPERIENCE

PROJECT – CHILE AND MEXICO

• UDD Program: Psychology
• UDD Teacher: Paulina Sarmiento
• Foreign University: Universidad de Monterrey
• Foreign Teacher: Ana Cecilia Cárdenas Casanueva
• Language: Spanish
• Duration: 10 weeks
• UDD Students: 34

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DESCRIPTION
Throughout this COIL, students from Universidad de Monterrey and UDD used their academic knowledge seen during the semester to analyze the needs in the psychoeducational area in order to enhance a healthy development of elementary school children. 

The learning outcomes of this activity were:

• Identify the needs of the group through interviews to teachers from the institution.
• Distinguish needs and interventions that promote the comprehensive development of children in an educational context.
• Develop a product that contributes to attend the needs detected in a school context.

The methodology used was Design Thinking. It was included in various phases of the project, from the needs identification until they reached a solution. Two institutions participated in this project: one in Chile, Escuela de lenguaje Jesús de Praga and one in Mexico, Guardería CENDI 5. Both of them received the materials created by students according to the needs.