COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS AND THE TEACHING PRACTICE OF THE TEACHING CAREER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAGALLANES

The current investigation aimed to determine the communication skills and the pedagogical practice of students of the pedagogy career at the University of Magallanes, Chile. Likewise, it was circumscribed under the gaze of the quantitative approach in the basic typology with a non-experimental design, with a population of 75 students of the pedagogy career studying the pedagogical practice subject and with the management of an unintentional probabilistic sample for a total of 75 subjects. For the collection of information, the survey and a questionnaire with a Likert scale were used. It was validated by the opinion of specialists knowledgeable about the subject in communication skills and pedagogical practice and for reliability through Cronbach's Alpha. The study showed that students consider that teachers expand critical thinking, which is why they inquire that the student learn what is taught and can put it into practice as well as the coexistence of a collaborative work based on the activities that must be developed in the subject of pedagogical practice.