Each academic year, the University of La Laguna's centers implement the Orientation and Tutorial Action Plans (POAT) to be developed in their degrees to provide students with support and guidance systems once enrolled. The current POAT for the Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics is based on the guidelines that the University of La Laguna has adopted since the approval of Organic Law 6/2001, of December 21, on universities (BOE, December 24, 2001) and represent an update to the guidelines that regulate the Orientation and Tutorial Action Plans (POAT) approved by the Governing Council on January 31, 2012.
The training activities included in the POAT address various topics through which it is intended to facilitate the students' academic-professional decision-making at their different stages (reception and integration into the centre and the university, guidance throughout the degree and for their incorporation into the labour market), which will allow them to successfully complete the degree and adapt to new demands: autonomous learning strategies, teamwork, improving academic performance results, resolving difficulties, information and advice on external internships and final degree projects, guidance on existing mobility programmes, demands and characteristics of the labour market, etc.
By being enrolled at ULL, students of the degree can participate in the POAT of their center, benefiting from:
The goals to be achieved through the POAT are the following:
New students will be automatically enrolled at the beginning of their first academic year in the Faculty's POAT Virtual Classroom through the Virtual Teaching Unit from the ULL. Both the tutors, the mentors and the POAT coordination will contact them through this classroom and they will be able to ask any questions, as well as the development of the program through consultation in the virtual classroom.
The POAT planning includes different activities to be carried out with first-year students. To carry out these activities, the participation of teachers from the Faculty of Pharmacy and different Services and Units of the ULL is counted on: Information and Orientation Service (SIO), Information and Communication Technology Service (STIC), Vice-Rectorate for Internationalisation, Training and Employment Areas of the FGULL, among others.
Those students who manage to exceed the 80% attendance among all the activities mentioned above will be able to request the certificate to obtain the 3 – ECTS.
During their first academic year, students will receive advice from their assigned tutor-teacher, who will support them in their intellectual, academic and professional concerns.
CAREER TUTORS
The development of activities for all courses is carried out as planned at the beginning of the course. These activities are distributed between the two semesters on the dates and times established in the weekly schedule of the degree, and their function will be both academic guidance, adaptation to the university environment or professional guidance. The activities will be communicated through the Virtual Classroom and through posters in the faculty and will be planned in such a way that they meet the needs of the profile of new students.
Mentoring will be carried out by students in their final years of the degree, so that they can advise new students to facilitate the transition to the university environment. The mentoring programme consists of monitoring the students by the mentors, through a series of scheduled meetings where they will make their experience available to the student, so that a more fluid link is created between them, thus facilitating the work of the teacher-tutor.
This working group was created for the first time in the 2021/22 academic year and aims to provide mentoring for new students during their first year. The student mentor will have a group of assigned students with whom they will hold a series of informational meetings spread across both semesters. The members of this working group are updated annually, and for each academic year that the students serve as mentors, they receive 1 ECTS credit.