INNOVATIVE PROCESS FOR TEACHER EVALUATION AND ACADEMIC WORKLOAD

We show in this paper challenges and results to implement in Mexico an innovative process for teacher evaluation, through a system that encourages compliance with its obligations. Our system could help to increase institutional competitiveness within the DGEST (Directorate General of Higher Education Technology) and the productivity of academic managements by reducing the time spent on scheduling the academic workload of teachers. The above was based on current regulations of IT's (Technological Institutes).

The main challenge was to convince teachers of the quantifiable benefits that the new system can provide to them. The key was forceful leadership implementation to achieve a transformation of traditional repetitive processes.

The originality of this paper is that nowadays there are nobody among the 261 technological SNIT (National System of Technological Institutes) using a system to evaluate objectively and quantitatively the teacher's performance. We could use this performance as an indicator to scheduling groups to teachers. Finally, we found five advantages about this methodology.

In this abstract, we state two of them:
1. We save up to 70 % of time spent on teacher scheduling, representing an estimated $ 16.800 dls at school savings. To estimate this on a level of 261 technological institutes SNEST, we could be save up to 4.3 million dollars.
2. Our system has a module to automatically review the scheduling of each teacher, so that could substantially improve the management of human resources, decreasing the superabit hours.

So, the automation of some of these key processes allows us to earn more time to spend it on activities research or other strategic academic activities.