A Look at the Innovative Competency Profile of University Professors in Peru

Abstract

I´d like to focus on university teachers who have a great responsibility to their community and society; their role goes beyond the mere transmission of knowledge. Higher education is constantly changing, and one factor influencing its quality and effectiveness is the profile of a competent teacher, an agent of innovation, with the ability to adapt to the new demands of society. Let´s me add that innovative competence is a constant challenge since it is required to identify the characteristics, learning rhythms, and needs of their students to apply active methodologies to improve educational quality; therefore, this study aims to explore and identify the level of the innovative competence profile of teachers by analyzing the key skills they must acquire to take on the challenges of higher education; Let´s move on to the methodology was based on a quantitative approach, of a descriptive and substantive type, with a non-experimental design; the population consisted of higher education teachers in Peru, of which a sample of 60 teachers was used; for data collection, a questionnaire was applied to evaluate the Innovative Competence Profile of the Teacher taken from Fernandez and Rodriguez (2023). It was concluded that the innovative competence profile of the higher education teacher was moderately adequate at 21.7%, adequate at 50.0%, and very adequate at 28.3%.