Tendencias Pedagógicas (Oct 2015)
THE COMPETENCES IN THE TRAINING OF THE TEACHER: of the theory to practical proposals
Abstract
Teacher Education based on the personal and professional competencies they will require to exercise their teaching has become a central issue and a strategic priority of the current Education policies. However, achieving this goal requires a profound transformation of the existing curricular and organizational practices facing, simultaneously, all the contradictions and resistances that such processes involves (Huberman, 1973). This article reconstructs the process followed in the design of a competency-based curriculum for initial training of Basic Education teachers. First, 11 competencies are identified, then their contents are fully explained and, finally, the competencies are distributed along the 9 semesters that training lasts. The main thrust of paper is that the visibility of the process of building a competency-based curriculum can be useful as a reference framework and as a contrasting practice in relation to the feasibility of this approach to training.
