Develops strategies to stimulate student effort and promote their ability to learn on their own and with others”

For many years, centuries even, psychology has existed as a science that studies human behavior and mental processes. Gradually it has branched out into other areas of knowledge, reaching schools as a way to deepen learning and the most suitable educational methods for students to develop their cognitive skills in the best way.

In this sense, when it comes to guiding students to make important decisions, the psychologist in the field performs a series of assessments and applies strategies that allow to evaluate all available options objectively.  

For this reason, a program has been developed with the intention of showing psychologists the application and understanding of strategies to help young people solve problems and conflicts in school environments. It also seeks to establish different tools to face the complexity of the profession in secondary education. To this end, the student will be invited to reflect and issue a conclusion on the responsibility and ethics of this field. All this, with the purpose of being able to guide young people towards a better working future.  

As the program progresses, professionals will be able to understand the different approaches to guidance and apply them to all developmental stages of children and young people. They are also expected to develop skills for the organization of ideas and motivational arguments, which will help to obtain better results with students, in addition to establishing the foundations of leadership and creativity, fostering collaborative work and improving their communication results. 

Furthermore, it is a 100% online Postgraduate Certificate that provides students with comfortable study and ease, wherever and whenever they want it. All you need is a device with internet access to take your career one step further. A modality according to the current times with all the guarantees to position the engineer in a highly demanded sector. 

Find in this advanced master’s degree the opportunity to learn about the new guidance and counseling processes in the educational system”

This advanced master’s degree in Educational and Vocational Guidance contains the most complete and up-to-date program on the market. The most important features include:

• The development of case studies presented by experts in vocational and professional guidance
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Its special emphasis on innovative methodologies in educational and vocational orientation 
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments 
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

Acquire the criteria for the selection and elaboration of educational materials with the most up-to-date program on the market”

Its teaching staff includes professionals from the field of journalism, who bring to this program the experience of their work, as well as renowned specialists from reference societies and prestigious universities. 

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning experience designed to prepare for real-life situations. 

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the student must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the professional will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts. 

Encourage a climate that facilitates learning and values student contributions"

Understand the importance of mentoring to guide young people in choosing an appropriate career path"

Psychologists in educational centers must be able to apply their knowledge objectively and guarantee the emotional, social and professional development of the students they are responsible for. For this reason, this advanced master’s degree in Educational and Vocational Guidance has been developed under a series of general and specific objectives that will allow professionals to know the areas and strategies that are applied in the psycho-pedagogical counseling of young people. This will give a new vision of professional and vocational guidance focused on the individual, enhancing the role of the counselor as a facilitator of the transition to the current labor market. 

Participate in the definition of the educational project and in the general activities of the center according to criteria of quality improvement, attention to diversity, prevention of learning problems and coexistence”

General Objectives

• Provide future teachers with the acquisition of specialized training that will increase their performance level and update their knowledge in teaching in Compulsory Secondary Education
• Acquire the necessary knowledge to act as a support for students' decision making regarding their vocation and vocational orientation
• Act in an adjusted way in the different personal contexts of the students 
• Know the most effective and useful guidance strategies 

Specific Objectives

• Possess and understand knowledge that provides them with a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and application of ideas in the context of educational content creation
• Be able to apply their knowledge and understanding through problem-solving skills in new, unfamiliar environments within broader (multidisciplinary) concepts, to the practice of teaching in different secondary schools and related environments
• Integrate the different knowledge acquired throughout the master's degree to face the complexity of the teaching profession in secondary education; reflect and make judgments in school and family environments on the social and ethical responsibility of this profession as a basis for correct decision making
• Know how to communicate conclusions to specialized and non-specialized audiences, students, families and professionals related to education, in a clear and unambiguous manner
• Develop the learning skills that will allow them to continue studying and training as teachers in an autonomous way and as part of a team
• Apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve broader (or multidisciplinary) problems related to their Area of study
• Integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments
• Communicate their conclusions and the ultimate knowledge and rationale behind them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner
• Acquire the learning skills that will enable them to continue studying in a manner that will be largely self-directed or autonomous
• Study the concept of educational guidance
• Present the fields of action of Educational Guidance
• Know the role of the educational psychologist in the Guidance Department
• Expose the role of the guidance counselor in Tutorial Action
• Show the main social and personal situations that have an impact on school coexistence
• Identify the resources and strategies for the management of coexistence in the educational center
• Provide tools for the orientation of students who are promoted from kindergarten to elementary school and from elementary to high school 
• Provide tools for vocational guidance to students who finish high school and go on to post-compulsory studies
• Show the processes of educational guidance and psycho-pedagogical counseling in the educational system
• Know the areas and strategies of psycho-pedagogical counseling
• Present techniques and instruments of psycho-pedagogical diagnosis
• Explain the collaborative work of the guidance counselor with teachers and members of the school community
• Identify the models of psycho-pedagogical intervention in counseling
• Provide tools for academic and professional guidance
• Provide tools for the prevention of violence and bullying in schools
• Present the strategies and the script for conducting a psycho-pedagogical evaluation
• Show a historical approach to diversity and education
• Discuss the principles of prevention
• Present the models of intervention in educational guidance
• Present the procedures for collecting information
• Know, detect and identify students with high abilities
• Understand the importance of tutoring: shared and/or peer tutoring 
• Detail strategies of psycho-pedagogical evaluation
• Explain the content of the Guidance and Tutorial Action Plan
• Discuss the concepts of educational innovation, change, reform and educational improvement
• Get to know the fields of innovation in the educational context
• Show process models to generate educational innovation
• Expose the components for the design of an intervention project for educational improvement
• Strategies and resources for the assessment of educational innovation and improvement projects
• Present shared teaching as a strategy for learning improvement
• Provide strategies for orienting evaluation towards learning
• List the functions of educational research
• Provide education professionals with the practical tools, social skills and techniques that will enable them to resolve these situations and prevent behavioral and disciplinary problems
• Develop strategies for the prevention and peaceful resolution of conflicts
• Understand overexcitability and its probable incidence in high capacities
• Differentiate between the different types of overexcitability and their manifestations 
• Understand divergent thinking and creativity as a differential trait
• Review case studies in which specific educational needs derived from high capacity are addressed
• Identify successful educational responses based on the analysis of cases of specific educational needs
• Learn about the intervention focused on the improvement of self-esteem and self-knowledge of the individual
• Define the principles of Neuroeducation
• Explain the main neuromyths
• Explain strategies for early stimulation and interventions
• Define the theory of attention
• Explain emotion from a neurological point of view
• Explain learning from a neurological point of view
• Explain memory from a neurological point of view
• Communicate effectively with all members of the classroom 
• Use images and videos as support material in the classroom 
• Know how to solve communication problems
  Give a new vision of professional and vocational guidance focused on the individual
• Train in the latest classroom trends in vocational and professional guidance with effective and practical resources
• Enhance the role of the guidance counselor as a facilitator of the transition to the current labor market
• Specialize in various inclusion techniques for different individual profiles
• Promote the use and knowledge of ICTs in the centers
• Awaken in the student the sensibility towards a new guidance model based on successful cases both in organizational aspects and classroom implementation

Know the processes of interaction and communication in the classroom, to address and solve young people´s problems"