In education, it is necessary that the educational work of the student is based on the unity of action of the pedagogical group and its cohesion, the main task is the tutor teacher.
All teachers have the responsibility to influence the training of students, but the tutor teacher has the important mission of coordinating the system of unified influences on the student. In the current moments that education has grown, at this level the role of the tutor teacher takes on a place of transcendental importance to guarantee the quality of it, given the importance of educational work that corresponds to him, he must first of all be an exemplary teacher, it is say possess a high political and ideological level and deep scientific and methodological knowledge and his vocation of his love for children and young people.
For the development of the exploratory study they are used as fundamental quantitative methods. In the pedagogical capacity that he possesses and in the success of the results obtained in the direction of the educational teaching process: All this together with a high awareness of the social and personal significance of the task he performs, being able to summarize the main directions of the teacher's work tutor in the following. Individual knowledge of students. Organization and Education of students. Raising the quality of teaching achievement. Relations with the family. The elevation of the requirements of their training, it is unavoidable to pay maximum attention to the work of the tutor teacher and a large part of the difficulties faced at our headquarters.It could be eliminated if it was oriented, directed and controlled that instrument so effective for the work of the school, as is the group of teachersTUTORS.
INTRODUCTION
When we face the group of students we quickly realize that each one has characteristics that distinguish it and that make it peculiar. This fact undoubtedly puts the teacher before the challenge of assuming the education of each one of them from a position that allows him to adjust his response to the diversity of educational needs that they present, with the aim of the integral development of their personality.
On the other hand, from the position of students, in our school life we have all met teachers and professors who we remember with affection and respect as close, useful, friends, who transmitted us a model, values, rigorous scientific knowledge that we were recreating and discovering with your help.
These experiences in the performance of both roles indicate the importance of accompanying the student in their learning with a close presence that goes beyond the goals in the transmission of knowledge.
More and more in the scientific-pedagogical literature, this role of the teacher is being recognized in each teaching act, but it has stood out even more strongly in recent years in the recognition of the figure of the tutor. In addition, the experiences accumulated in the Cuban university context regarding the work of the guide teacher in the regular daytime course as well as those related to the role of the tutor in universalization reaffirm them as essential educational figures whose reason for existence is precisely the full individualization of The education.
This constitutes a synthesis of the fundamental aspects of tutoring in the university context, which has been made taking as a reference the elaborations that various authors have contributed in the theoretical order as well as the experiences of teachers ”. We hope that the content we present will be useful to the tutors in the development of their work. We trust that your study will provide new alternatives in this regard. Either way, it is the daily practice in the classroom, starring them, the most legitimate source of solutions and answers to the problems they face in the university educational context.
What is tutoring?
The development at the end of the 20th century of the so-called «Knowledge Revolution» has generated exponential increases in all fields of knowledge. Systematic knowledge has gradually replaced experience in the development of technology and today sophisticated knowledge and theoretical constitutes the primary route to technical progress.
The possibility of participating in the knowledge economy requires a new set of skills: the individual must be much more qualified than before and also must demonstrate a greater degree of intellectual independence, must be flexible and be willing to continue studying much further of the age in which it has been traditional to do so; imposing an important change in the didactic action.
This should be directed towards a much more autonomous education (where mere declarative learning does not make much sense) that affects other much broader and more comprehensive fields of formation of the student's personality. This means opening up to new possibilities that encourage students to research and discovery, to get to know the external reality and to integrate into a society that is changing day by day and with much broader social demands. From this perspective, justifying the need for tutoring as an instrument at the service of the student is not difficult.
The definition of mentoring given by Marchesi (1986) states:
“Set of technical supports, aimed at both students and educational agents. Its aim is to achieve the maximum adjustment between individual potential and educational requirements in order to achieve greater training of students in their personal development and in learning "
In this way, tutoring must be understood in terms of aids that must be offered to the student and educational agents in order to stimulate the integral development of their personality. But, is the concept of tutoring understood from the same perspective at different educational levels?
In this sense, authors such as Castillo, Torres and Polanco (2003) point out that this concept will derive various nuances depending on the different educational stages, thus, for example, in Early Childhood and Primary Education the aid is
They will guide the child's insertion into the group, the initial school adaptation, the prevention of learning difficulties, the achievement of the family-school bond and the optimization of development
Various social factors intervene in the harmonious and multilateral development of the personalities of children and young people. The direction of the systematic work planned for this purpose lies fundamentally in the pedagogical group of the school from the preschool level to the upper grades. In education, it is necessary to emphasize that the results of educational work are based on the unity of action of the pedagogical group and its cohesion, of which the main responsibility of the tutor teacher. All teachers have the responsibility to influence the training of students: but the tutor teacher has the important mission of coordinating the system of unified influences on the student.
In our country this concern began from the moment of the Revolutionary triumph, in September 1959 Law No. 559 was approved, which establishes a series of norms for the organization and integration of studies whose responsibility is to ensure the unity of the group, carry out political activities and ideological on issues that were not included within the subjects to regulate all this is under the advice of the tutor.
It is the fundamental cell in educational activities and general orientation in its students.At the present time when education has grown enormously, the role of the tutor teacher takes on a transcendental and important place to guarantee quality, so it is necessary to strengthen this work, aims to highlight the role of the tutor teacher, their characteristics and fundamental directions of their work.
-The role of the tutor teacher is complex due to the level of commitment in the integral formation of our students and for whose insufficiencies we are responsible for what I demand from the tutor's work to obtain satisfactory results if we endorse what Gabriela Mistral raises:
If you love your job as time goes by
If your punishment is the fruit of love and not revenge
If in each class of yours you try to renew yourself, If you know how to follow a method without making it a slave
If instead of teaching, you also know how to learn
If you know how to study again what you thought you knew, If you know how to instruct and, better yet, educate, If your students yearn to look like you
So, you are MASTER. Grabiela Mistral
Overall objective:
- Training of the tutors of the Municipal University Headquarters of Physical Culture of Taguasco?
DEVELOPING
Tutoring in Education
GENERAL PRINCIPLES
The tutoring action is understood as a pedagogical work aimed at the tutelage, accompaniment and monitoring of the students with the intention that the educational process of each student is oriented towards their comprehensive training and takes into account their characteristics and personal needs.
The criteria for the organization and the priority lines of operation of the tutoring action in the Institute are specified in the Tutoring Action Plan, which is part of the Curricular Project of the Stage and is prepared by the Guidance Department and approved by the Senate.
Tutoring is an educational resource at the service of learning and therefore should help the student learn more and better in all areas of the curriculum. For this reason, it is essential that there is a high degree of coherence between the intentions of the Tutoring Action Plan and the educational principles and criteria agreed in the rest of the elements of the Curriculum Project of the stage.
Guidance and tutoring of students are the task of all teachers. They cover both the actions that, more specifically, the tutor teacher develops with his group or in communication with families and the rest of the teaching staff, as well as those others that each teacher within his area carries out to guide, mentor and support the learning process of each of his students.
The tutoring action is part of the educational action and is inseparable from the teaching-learning process. All teachers are tutors, since it is up to all of us to protect the learning process of each student in our areas, in accordance with the common objectives established in the PAT and the Curriculum Project.
Although the guidance and tutoring of students is a task shared by the teaching staff, the figure of the tutor, as a teaching coordination body recognized in the Organic Regulations of the IES, is still necessary in the coordination of the group's team of teachers, in contact with families, and in the development of some specific functions.
Each group of students has a tutor appointed by the Director from among the teachers who teach the group. The tutors of the same course meet periodically with the Head of Studies and the Counselor to plan the activities to be developed with the students, prepare the meetings with the parents and the evaluation sessions of the teachers, etc.
The coordination of the functions related to the orientation and tutoring of the students is a competence assigned to the Faculty and not to the Guidance Department. The coordination and direction of the action of the tutors is a competence that corresponds to the Head of Studies.
The Guidance Department is an advisory and support body whose function is to make proposals to the Senate regarding the organization and operation of the tutorial action, collaborate with the Head of Studies in coordinating the tutors and also collaborate with the tutors and the the rest of the teaching staff in the development of the Tutorial Action Plan, providing them with materials and resources and also participating in direct work with students and parents.
PURPOSE OF THE TUTORING
The tutoring and orientation of the students have as fundamental purposes:
- Favor the integral education of the student as a person
- Promote an education that is as personalized as possible and that takes into account the needs of each student
- Maintain educational cooperation with families
FUNCTIONS OF THE TUTOR Although guidance and tutoring is a task for the entire teaching team, there is always a teacher who is more specifically in charge of:
- Facilitate a good atmosphere of coexistence and learning in the group.
- Do a personal monitoring of each student and facilitate that all teachers in the group take into account the needs of each one of them.
- Coordinate the evaluation process of the students in your group, presiding over the evaluation sessions of your group and taking care of the report cards.
- Direct the concerns and demands of students and mediate conflicts that may arise
- Guide students about their academic and professional future
- To act as a liaison between the teachers and the parents of the students.
THE WEEKLY HOUR OF TUTORING
In all ESO courses there is a weekly hour dedicated to carrying out specific tutoring activities, although, due to what has been said before, the tutor's work is not limited only to what is seen in the weekly tutoring hour.
The weekly tutoring hour is not just another subject. Rather, it is a space for analysis and reflection on the learning process, on coexistence in the institute, on the climate of the group itself, on the functioning of the center, on the participation of students in school dynamics and on the future academic and professional.
MAIN TOPICS OF GROUP TUTORING
The main topics that are developed in the weekly tutoring schedule with the group of students are the following:
- The reception of students at the beginning of the course in the group and in the Institute, facilitating mutual knowledge among all and the creation of a good atmosphere of coexistence and learning
- The internal organization of the group, choosing the delegates and encouraging the participation of all its members in the dynamics of the class and in the life of the center
- The monitoring of the evaluation process carried out by the teachers, periodically analyzing the progress of the course and knowing how the teachers see our academic performance.
- Guidance and support in learning, preventing difficulties that may arise and adopting the appropriate measures if they appear.
- The academic-professional orientation, providing students with information about the options that are presented to them at the end of the course and the stage.
Our Commander-in-Chief has pointed out: “The school occupies the main place within the set of influences that acts in the formation of children and young people. Within each study center, educational work is developed in the classroom, at work and in political-ideological, productive, recreational, cultural activities; that is, the educational work directs the entire school life. The heart of educational work is the work of the teacher. Yes this works wrong; the whole work system will malfunction. ”(1)
Due to the great importance of the tutor for the students, we decided to do this study to guide how the tutor teacher should carry out the work
Functions of the tutor teacher.
- Plan joint activities with the student that can contribute to the methodological development. Systematic attention to the student. Contribute to training and promote values in students. Demand and ensure that they comply with the regulations of the headquarters or work center where it is located. (1) Castro, Fidel. Speech Delivered on July 7, 1981. Influence compliance with educational and school hygiene aspects by leading by example.Guiding students with the different tasks assigned to them, pointing out achievements and deficiencies and ways to correct them.Participate and control attendance at activities, mainly classes and work. Issue the criteria for evaluation in writing and file in your file. Participate in evaluative cuts as appropriate.Participate in the improvement activities in order to keep their knowledge up to date Ensure school retention Systematic evaluation of the student under their tutoring
The educational work that corresponds to the tutor must be first of all:
- An exemplary teacher High political and ideological level Deep Scientific and Methodological knowledge
In other words, a vocation clearly expressed in the love for children and young people, in the knowledge of the laws and regularities of these ages, in their pedagogical capacity that they possess and in the success of the results obtained in the direction of the Teaching-Educational process All this coupled with a high awareness of the social and personal significance of the task performed.
Let us remember Martí when he expresses:
“The teaching, who does not know? Is it above all a work of infinite love? (two)
THE TUTORING TEACHER MUST BE CHARACTERIZED BY:
- The Pedagogical, Methodological and Scientific preparation.Professional level.Pedagogical Master's Degree.CreativityExperience at work.Ethical values to instill in your students.Necessary, updated knowledge and development of skills.Application of scientific research methods to solve specific problems Social performance Understanding responsibility for the task.
In short, the tutor must be the example to be followed, the image to trust and the authority to respect. I quote verbatim.
"Great light that goes ahead and carries forward" said Enrique José Varona when referring to the teacher and in fact to the tutor teacher, José de la Luz y caballero. (3) (2) Martí, José. Complete Works, volume XI. Edit. Social Sciences, Havana, 1975 Page 82. (3) Varona Enrique José. Taken from Ferrer José, Imagen Varona, Universidad de Oriente, Sgt. From Cuba, 1964. p.179
We can summarize the main directions of the work of the tutor teacher:
- Individual knowledge of the student Attention to moral training Raising the quality of teaching achievement Working together with student organizations Relations with the family.
What would be the greatest satisfaction for a tutor teacher?
I would respond by quoting verbatim: That my students could say something similar to what José Martí said to his teacher Mendive in 1871: ”…… And if I have had the strength for so much and if I feel strong to be truly
Man, just you. I owe you and you. and only from you. it is how good and affectionate I have ”. (4) Martí - José, Complete Works, Volume XX, Social Sciences Publishing House 247.
CONCLUSIONS
- Guide and define the functions of the tutor teacher to obtain positive results at work Make a correct selection of personnel to face the Educational Teaching task Direct their work and coordinate with their students towards achievements of common objectives to form in them materialistic scientific conceptions of the the world, educate them in communist morals, foster a love of study and develop a communist attitude towards work. Fully develop the student's personality demanding a job that corresponds to ensuring the education of the young generations, personalizing the tutor with his direct support.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- The teacher Guide. Translation.Castro, Fidel. " Speech delivered on July 7, 1981. ”Collective of Authors. The Moral Education of Youth, Editorial ProgresoChernokozva, vm The Ethics of the Teacher. Ferrer, José. Image of Varona, Universidad de ORIENTE, 1964. Martí, José, Complete Works, Volume XI and xx. Social Sciences Publishing House. The thesis Resolutions of the First Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba. Editorial of Social Sciences. Havana city.
