Objectives and Competencies

Objectives

This curriculum aims to ensure that students acquire the necessary skills to practice the teaching profession, according to the most accepted criteria and in accordance with the applicable legislation.

In the context of the justification for the degree, carried out earlier, it is considered that initial training should provide future teachers with theoretical knowledge, skills, attitudes and sufficient contact with the profession and its practice. in such a way that they constitute the necessary basis on which to build one's professional development. This development lasts one's entire active teaching life and is influenced by the initial training received. In this regard, it should be noted that the training programme is eminently professional, but also promotes research tasks in the field of education. This highlights the importance of the research dimension on the professional development of teachers.

We consider it necessary to influence the training of a teacher, characterized as a mediator between socio-personal development and learning, as someone able to foster the personal, scientific and cultural formation of her/his students as competent citizens who can exercise their rights and fulfil their duties in a democratic society. Therefore, we believe the basic objectives for a degree aimed at initiating future Secondary Education teachers in training to be educators should be the following:

• To foster a global and analytical vision of the social, cultural and environmental issues of our time.
• To promote a positive and critical attitude towards developing the professional identity of teachers.
• To integrate professional experiences with training processes, through critical reflection on everything that is experienced or learned.
• To encourage collaboration with other professionals in the educational field and, in particular, with the school management teams.
• To promote the use of classroom research processes as the basis for their professional development.
• To promote cultural, personal, ethical and social training suitable for practising the teaching profession with the scientific rigour that must be applied in the field of adolescent education.
• To promote an understanding of the existing relationships between learning models, the school context and the necessary didactic options for their teaching activities.
• To recognise, analyse and attend to the differential characteristics of the students, according to their evolutionary development and their family, social and cultural contexts.
• To know the professional teaching competencies particular to each specialty and their relationship to other competencies through transversal mechanisms.

Competencies

Basic, General and Cross-Curricular Competencies

The basic competencies for all master’s degrees were defined in R.D. 1393/2007 of 29 October. They will be progressively adapted and as established by the current R.D. 822/2021 of 28 September, which establishes the organization of university education and the quality assurance procedure.