Document Type : Original Article

Authors

• batul jamali zavareh ¹
• Ahmad Reza Nasr ²
• Mohammad Reza Nili ³

¹ university of Esfahan

² University of esfahan

³ university of esfahan

Abstract

Competences were a series of key professional and personal skill, which was crucial for the successful actives of the profession. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine professional competencies of university teacher in order to develop conceptual framework professional competencies of university teacher. The participants consisted of 26 faculty members of Isfahan University at the academic year of 2017-2018, who were selected via the targeted sampling method. Sample selection continued until theoretical saturation. Data were collected via the semi-structured interviewing technique. For data analysis, constrictive and interpretive analysis method had been used. The results of this paper indicate that   five key competences of faculty include, general, educational, research, specialist competence, and Professional ethics. General competences include psychological, individual and attitudinal characteristics. Educational competences include teaching skills, management of classroom, implying the principles of pedagogy and identifying audiences,specialist competence include mastery in  dimensions of  specialized knowledge, research competences include performance of  research, production and dissemination of scientific works and professional ethics includes communicational skills, professional ethics in education, professional ethics in research, and commitment to students.

Keywords

• Professional competencies
• Professional development faculty
• Tenure