The preparation of the physics teacher: perspective of university students in engineering

Abstract

The student's education faces a series of challenges in a world that constantly changes science and technology, therefore, must review and redefine the tasks that relate to the needs of the knowledge society in terms of learning and continuous improvement. A key point for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to have quality Educational Programmes (EPs) is that teachers have the skills, competences and values necessary for the delivery of subjects. This article presents the results of the application to 513 engineering students of a higher education institution of a Likert scale instrument about the perceptions of the training and methodology applied by the teachers in class; with the objective of finding the areas of opportunity of the academic plant. The increase in the quality of the teaching-learning process is mainly due to the combination of the knowledge, thought and values of the teacher. For this reason, Higher Education needs quality teachers, trained to strengthen the professional development of the students, of their own structuring of the educational programs, of the infrastructure and of the university environment.