Enfoque por competencias: Problemáticas didácticas que enfrentan el profesorado

This essay aims to analyze the competences approach and the problems associated with educational policies that have sought that higher education teachers in Mexico teach according to educational models based on such approach. In addition, a revision of programs that first promoted competences in the world, as well as the critical positions of some authors on this subject, is carried out; all this from a documentary research type.  It is concluded that one of the main challenges facing the educational policy in Mexico is the pedagogical training of teachers, in order to give continuity to educational models that the teachers follow and avoid the rupture between different but not antagonistic models, such as those based on competences and constructivism.