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TUTORING DEVELOPMENT: TEACHERS´ PERCEPTIONS OF UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (SPAIN)
About this paper:
Appears in: INTED2011 Proceedings
Publication year: 2011
Pages: 1434-1439
ISBN: 978-84-614-7423-3
ISSN: 2340-1079
Conference name: 5th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Dates: 7-9 March, 2011
Location: Valencia, Spain
Abstract:
At the university, individual attention is essential in order to improve the quality of training and guidance offered to students. It is therefore necessary to respond to their needs and demands, detect and help resolve problems, facilitate raising doubts that class would not dare, and finally, provide a more individualized that it would be impossible to develop in the master classes in often overcrowded.
In this context, tutoring is part of the teaching of all university teachers and implies the information and training work done by the teacher in order to track the learning process of each student or group of students who he teaches.
In this paper, include some results of an investigation in relation to the teachers´ perception of the University of Santiago de Compostela about their tutoring development, in aspects as their satisfaction, the frequency and the reasons why teachers seek support students, and the incorporation of ICT in tutoring -frequency of use and possibilities offer-. The sample has included one total of 224 teachers of this university.
Keywords:
Tutoring, development, perceptions, teachers.