The professional learning task for the training of a competent worker

Abstract

The objective analysis of the initial and continuous professional training of workers in today's world faces a series of challenges, among others, achieving the availability of graduates who are competent to fulfill the functions inherent to the work object of their profession. The objective of this article is to propose a procedure for the development of professional learning tasks for the training of a competent. A preexperimental quantitative research was carried out, using the methods of document review, observation, analysis, synthesis, hypothetical-deductive, systemic, the pedagogical pre-experiment and the Chi-square statistician (X2). A sample of 30 intermediate technical students in Industrial Mechanics from the municipality of Holguín, Cuba, was used, in which the improvement of learning results as competent workers was demonstrated. The result can be generalized at the national and international level according to the characteristics of the teaching-learning process aimed at the professional training of workers. It concludes by stating that the application of the procedure contributes to improving the quality of professional training (initial or continuous) of competent workers.