Cuatro reflexiones sobre la docencia

Teaching is viewed as the most socially transcendent activity for not only involving permanent updated knowledge transmission but also forging, modeling and transforming the individual by fostering his principles, values, good habits, suitability, hopes, motivation, creativity, innovation, entrepreneurship and utopias. For it is through developing these attributes that learning becomes a pleasant and challenging experience, encouraging a desire of inquiry and creating new advances and purposive adaptations for the local, regional, national and international contexts. The teacher/master actually exists to assist and guide those with a restless, critical, dynamic spirit. This article was written under this perspective regarding the committed, competent, skillful teacher who is capable of making his student his best challenge. Teaching outcomes were used for the structural analysis, for the course syllabus provides a systematic description of the teaching, learning and evaluation processes and its proper development is based on the course outcomes. The four reflections we decided to approach were: competency-based education as a teaching trend, sense and value of the teaching role, analysis of some teaching outcomes and the importance of making progress for the professional development of the student.