What is the Meaning & Definition of Telesecundaria (Mexico)

Secondary education on television aimed at students who live in rural or inaccessible
Telesecundaria concept applies for an innovative education system installed in Mexico in 1968 and consisting of the secondary level through TV broadcasts, and is intended especially to students who live in rural areas or difficult to access. In this way is paves them the complication of travel to school.
At the historic moment that settles, illiteracy was a serious problem that grew and grew in those regions, then, with this proposal has sought to reduce it.
We must emphasize to the date it remains.

Created by Mexican journalist and public official Álvaro Gálvez and sources

Its creator has been the announcer, journalist and Mexican lawyer Álvaro Gálvez and sources who knew how to play in the public service as director of the Department of Audiovisual education of the Education Secretariat of the nation between 1964 and 1970.
Although his proposal certainly innovative era for those times was not something new but in fact, Álvaro Gálvez and sources, inspired in the system had been implemented in Italy.
And it included not only on television in the process of literacy but also joined the radio transmissions.
This renowned journalist and Mexican public official dealt a lot of disseminating culture and education in his country, and of course the telesecundaria was one of his most remembered contributions.

How does it effect the teaching process?

Within this system there are three elements that are the basis of the same and of course interacting so that plan come to fruition: the telemaestro, who studies of teve explains the lesson; the master monitor, who explains to the student doubts remaining after the exposure of the telemaestro; and the classroom that is provided with the necessary study material.
The class lasts an hour, in the first ten minutes is carried out a review of what was studied in the previous class, then, in the twenty minutes that follow is issued the kind of day. After this come into play another twenty minutes in which supervised exercises to know if in effect the student learned the lesson. And in the end there are ten minute break.
To affirm the knowledge developed manuals and printed study guides that have the Mission of accompanying and sustaining the televised lecture.