The Perception of Teachers about Students’ Potentialities and Difficulties

Abstract

The present study is the result of the “Teacher Training” research line of the “Education, Management and Society” group, linked to the Centre of Education, Philosophy and Theology-CEFT/São Paulo/Brazil with support from Mackenzie Institute MackPesquisa and approval of the Research Ethics Committee of the UPM (CEP/UPM process n° 1431/04/2012). The main objective is to identify the everyday reality of college student in the classroom, and the specific objectives are to identify teacher's perception of student's difficulties in the classroom and teacher's perception of specific situations underlying student's potentialities and difficulties student in the classroom. The results indicated which from the teachers’ perspective, the effects of alcohol/drugs impacted positively the learning difficulties and the inappropriate behaviour which also is affected significantly by the Learning Difficulties. Finally, it was found that the learning difficulties and inappropriate behavior proved negative impacted on the students’ potential. This research aims to discuss impact of the new University's profile in the teaching-learning relationship about situations underlying student's potentialities and difficulties in the classroom.