Diagnosis and development of the vocational requirements of the teaching profession in high school students

Abstract

The formation of new generations of citizens armed with knowledge, skills and values, committed to the economic-social development of their countries is a global aspiration that represents a challenge for education. In this sense, it requires addressing the continuity and improvement of the teaching profession through vocational and professional guidance, a process of highest priority in Latin America and Ecuador. This approach motivates this research with a mixed approach and exploratory scope and a cross-sectional non-experimental design. Its objective is to diagnose the vocational requirements of the teaching profession in high school students. The results reaffirm the construct validity and internal consistency of the instruments used to measure the perception of teachers and third-year high school students about vocational and professional guidance in an Ecuadorian public educational institution, with emphasis on the teaching profession and show a diagnosis of the current state of the vocational requirements of the teaching profession in order to develop vocational and professional guidance strategies and the construction of life projects related to the teaching profession at the high school level of any Ecuadorian public educational institution.