The development of professional skills in the agricultural technician in the IPAs

Abstract

This article is aimed at exposing the principal results obtained in the process of investigation in two polytechnic schools, to which a diagnosis was applied in order to evaluate the behavior of the process of formation and development of professional competences by using a set of methods of the empiric level, such as: observation, surveys, interviews and studies of documents; besides, the utilization methods of the theoretic level, such as: analysis- synthesis and inductive–deductive provided the obtaining of like principal results, consisting on the elaboration a pedagogic model for the formation and development of professional competences, that includes other contributions: the definition of professional competences, their functions, sequential levels as well as their classification. Finally a description of a methodology that enables the concretion of the proposed model in the agricultural polytechnic schools.