The "Good teache", postgrad student's perceptions

Abstract

The advances of a research that inquired about the way in which postgraduate students of a public state university recognize conceptions and traits associated with the "good teacher" are made known. A literature review was carried out to delimit the contextual, theoretical and methodological approach. The methodology used was qualitative, documentary and exploratory; an instrument of four open questions was applied to 137 graduate students from different areas of knowledge. Categories were established to analyze the information. As initial findings, the need to modify the traditional professional training model was identified; however, students tend to place the responsibility for their training on the teacher and give him the role of motivator and stimulator of their learning. Students usually recognize, as traits of the good teacher: empathy, cooperation, communication, tolerance, patience, confidence, human being, open to dialogue, plural thinking, horizontal relationship that interacts in a group; Be ethical, honest, humble, respectful and with commitment.