Los espacios de tutoría en práctica profesional y sus necesidades de fortalecimiento / Tutoring spaces and practice building needs

Abstract

The article is a report of the actors that have lived the process of practicum and their tutoring sessions. This involves students of pedagogy in physical education, basic general, preschool, history, Spanish, mathematics, arts and English, in a teacher training institution in the region of Maule, Chile and their tutors. 225 students in their practicum process and 57 college tutors participated in this work. The research was in the form of descriptive multiple case study. The results indicate very positive opinions regarding the support system, designed by the University for the students in professional teaching practice and which are specified in the presence of a professional responsibility to support the demands personal, social and professional experienced practitioners. On the other hand, it emphasizes that while recognizing mentoring as a support space classroom practitioner performance with regard to planning, teaching, assessment and reflection, the vision of the performances achieved there tends to be different among the actors. Practitioners perceive a performance that, in general, is at the level of "sufficiently" and "a lot", which would indicate that they consider acquired the different performances pedagogical acquired; however, the tutors´ view is different, and place a significant percentage of practitioners in an acquisition rather partial or "regular" of educational performances engaged in the formation of a teacher.