Percepción de los estudiantes sobre el quehacer docente

Abstract

Current changes lead to a new social, family, economic, political and educational reality, the educational one is the result of multifactorial elements that have changed the dynamics of classroom work, the discipline, the school environment and ways of learning. So the teacher should be able to use teaching strategies able to develop skills in students to respond to the diversity and heterogeneity of today's society. The goal of this study was to identify the teaching strategies used by high school teachers that promote significant learning chords to learn to learn, know-how, know how to be and how to live, and describe the characteristics of a good teacher. A quantitative cross-sectional research was applied to 126 high school students; 41.7% were male and 57.5 % were women. The sample selection was by chance. The results show that the strategies that are the most used by the teachers are: positive attitudes, persuasion, commitment, exposition and collaborative work. The features that stand out in a good teacher are: ability to teach, intelligent, hardworking, strict, honest and responsible.