Commitment and quality of teaching, source of training for professional teaching service

Abstract

It is an analysis of the responsibility and commitment of teachers to achieve a constant update of the teaching profession with a philosophy of professional ethics, to provide quality formative teaching to students. The quality of teaching is lost when teachers lack work commitment and lose interest in their work performance. The non-experimental, quantitative research design, in data collection, an instrument of 9 complex and 136 simple variables is applied, validated with 0.93 Cronbach's alpha, has three axes: professional teaching service, teaching commitment and quality in teaching, of which the latter are explored in depth. It is measured with a randomly selected sample of 392 primary school teachers from a population of 12,640. The analysis is descriptive with percentages and measures of central tendency, correlational with a Pearson r² 0.50 and multivariate principal components method. Among the notable conclusions about the professional teaching service is not that it omits to evaluate the performance and commitment that teachers show in their professional work, which is the basis of the quality of teaching. Work commitment is reflected by being motivated to train to develop ideal learning environments, they conduct themselves ethically, they are professionals concerned about student learning, they use assertive communication, they prepare classes, they innovate teaching strategies, they allow performance evaluation as a source. of professional innovation, they also work collaboratively with shared leadership with colleagues in schools.