MULTIGRADE EDUCATION AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL. EXPERIENCE AT THE “SANTIAGO MARIÑO”BARINAS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

Abstract

In the era of knowledge, globalization creates the need to provide the  Architecture student with new skills that allow him to recognize the models that  are proposed in this century, characterized by continuous innovation in the creative  methods of producing architecture in construction technologies and the use of  materials, which requires the implementation of new educational paradigms from  teaching. This challenge suggests abandoning the traditional academic learning  method, to focus on an innovative research process and continuous training,  focused on the analysis of knowledge made available to the student through the  use of current information and communication technologies. With this intention,  in the Architecture program of the Polytechnic University Institute “Santiago  Mariño” —IUPSM—, Barinas Extension, multigrade teaching is proposed as an  innovative approach, with the objective of achieving a successful teaching and  learning process for the student, through the method of knowledge transmission  not only vertically between teacher and student, but also transversally among the  students themselves. Finally, from the teaching experience in different institutions,  multigrade teaching encourages collaboration and peer learning, since students  can help each other. In addition, teachers can adapt their teaching to the new  educational, constructive and technological paradigms to meet the individual  needs of students, promoting more personalized learning.