TEACHING SKILLS

We need to mention the features that must have a teacher, because every day our society demands the formation of teachers capable of effectively solving the problems of professional practice and achieving ethical and responsible professional performance. Teachers should be able to adapt to continuous changes in the competitiveness of the way they teach. Today we say that a teacher should be competent in the teaching-learning process but to understand spoken is necessary to define the meaning of being responsible on our role as teachers and competencies that should have in our daily work.
Some authors define competition as the “Set a person's characteristics that are associated with good performance in a particular task or job” Others define it as "the Body of knowledge, skills, dispositions and behaviors that a person possesses that enable the successful completion of an activity." It is noteworthy that the teacher's ability is the determining factor in student success, so is necessary to define the characteristics that should have and develop those responsible for education to the challenges we face today.

Perrenoud lists ten new skills we develop as teachers:
1. Organizing student learning.
2. Managing the progression of learning.
3. Develop and evolve devices differentiation.
4. Involving students in their learning and their work.
5. Teamwork.
6. Participation in the management of the school.
7. Inform and involve parents.
8. Using new technologies.
9. Addressing the duties and ethical dilemmas of the profession.
10. Putting our own training.

Perrenoud, Philippe. (2004) Diez nuevas competencias para enseñar
México, SEP [biblioteca para la actualización del maestro],
capítulos 8, 9 y 10


As teachers we must, within reach of our students the elements needed to construct their knowledge themselves and participate actively in their learning process. Knowledge is dynamic now, and this forces us to develop skills in students and to relate what they know and what they can learn, what they should and should not do to acquire knowledge.