Abstract:

The project described in this paper aims to develop different transversal competences in the Degree of Pedagogy through several workshops carried out after carrying out a needs analysis, detecting the importance of this complementary training in university students.

In addition, it is intended to homogenize and specify evaluation criteria that provide coherence and facilitate the process of acquisition of various transversal competences included in the Degree of Pedagogy of the University of Granada, while raising awareness among students and teachers about the importance of differents aspects related to the evaluation of those competences in order to improve their academic performance and training.

To do so, it was based on the completion of a questionnaire on the part of the students of first year, in which they indicated what competences they thought necessary for their formation, and to what degree they thought that they carried out them. As a result, it was observed the need to give different workshops to practice these formative deficiencies, which are: a training workshop on study techniques (transversal competence (tc) 1), a training workshop on the formal aspects related to scientific-academic work (tc3), a workshop on formal aspects related to oral expositions (tc3), a workshop on the planning, structuring and preparation of scientific and academic works (tc6), a training workshop on Bibliographic management (Refworks / Zotero) (tc8), a workshop related to the regulation to cite and reference bibliographic sources (tc8), and finally a workshop on the importance of preserving intellectual property (Ephorus) (tc8).

This methodology, based on the "workshop" format, allows a dialogue between teacher and students to be established, allowing meaningful learning, linking these competences with the different subjects they study and improving their learning. The results obtained after the implementation of the workshops were positive, considering the implementation of this type of educational innovation proposals necessary and carrying out the implementation of the program to adapt the teaching to the European Higher Education Area.

Keywords:

Tutorships, higher education, transversal competences, Degree of Pedagogy of university of Granada.