Profile of competencies for professors, a reference for their professional improvement and their performance evaluation

Abstract

Introduction:  Professors need a reference by competences for their improvement and evaluation. At the Provincial Institute of Labor Studies (PILS) the trend has been to give priority to the development of technical skills without necessarily linking them to didactics and research skills, but the professors are educators and process advisors.

Objective: To propose a profile of competences, a reference for professional improvement and performance evaluation.

Methods: It was held at the Sancti Spiritus Institute with its 12 professors. Methods of the theoretical and empirical levels were used, with emphasis on group interview, focus group technique and expert criteria.

Results: According to the diagnosis, improvement was not conceptualized as a systematic process, it was planned taking advantage of courses in education centers or in a constructivist   way, based on dysfunctions, to develop curricula. The competency profile and the evaluation model were created. The institution was facilitated to determine gaps and successful itineraries for improvement.

Conclusions: The diagnosis reflects that the improvement of PILS professors is carried out based on empiricism and without a reference. The competency profile enables strategic projection of professional improvement and performance evaluation.  The expert criteria indicates that the profile is pertinent and guarantees