Caracterización de las competencias profesionales del educadora infantil ecuatoriano

Abstract

Abstract: The present research titled Characterization de las competencies professionals del educator/a infantile Ecuadorian aimed to identify the main professional competencies of early childhood and first-grade teachers; for the construction of a pedagogical intervention proposal that allows improvement in its teaching practice. This study was carried out in the provinces of Tena and Pichincha. The participants were 10 female teachers from the area of early childhood education from educational, fiscal, private religious, and fiscomisional institutions. This was a quasi-experimental study with a mixed approach since both quantitative and qualitative analyses were employed. The instrument was a questionnaire focused on collecting information about the level of skills that the participants possess. The results revealed that all competencies are necessary and complement each other. It was also discovered that most teachers possess the competencies to a greater or lesser degree, however, the factors of years of work experience and academic training do significantly impact research and updating, technological, and pedagogical competencies.