Tutoring at University: an Innovative Experience in the Degree in Primary School Teaching

Abstract

The launch of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has brought changes in teaching methods that directly affect the work and responsibilities of the university teaching staff. One of those responsibilities is university tutoring. Commitment to tutoring involves an open-minded teachers‘ approach overcoming the traditional idea that their duties and position with regard to students is restricted to teaching the contents specific to an academic programme. Thus, in the following article we present an experience-innovation of university tutoring conducted with students in the first course of the Degree in Primary School Teaching. The results of this experience have been achieved after analyzing the contents of the answers to open questions included in an ad-hoc questionnaire administered to students after finishing the tutoring process. The evaluation of this innovative experience will allow the development of future actions that strengthen tutoring as an essential action for university education, placing tutoring action as an inherent task and duty in the work of university teachers, consolidating this competence in its identity and helping to understand the value of tutoring as a sign of quality in university education.

Keywords

• profesor de universidad
• tutoría
• método de formación
• rol del profesor
• innovación educativa
• estudio de caso