Ujat Teachers: Leaders From The Classroom

Abstract

Students talk about everything, especially when the teacher is disciplined, demanding, and strict in their classroom teaching. This is where our topic arises, as students sometimes view this from another perspective, one of weariness and labeling the teacher as "bad." Rarely do students, especially at the higher level, see the teacher as a leader, much less take advantage of that leadership to see themselves and acquire knowledge and qualities that will serve them in their future professional development, performance, and competitiveness in the workplace. Perhaps it is immaturity, which may be a topic for another study, but what interests us and is important to us is to know the opinion of students in the Bachelor of Communication program in the Academic Division of Education and Arts (DAEA) at the Juárez Autonomous University of Tabasco (UJAT) about working on their course content in the classroom with a teacher who demonstrates leadership. Without a doubt, it is within those four walls that the process of training a university student begins. Of course, the classroom is not the same as the professional field, and this is where the teacher, with their skills and content, but also with their leadership and characteristics specific to their training and pedagogy, must instill and, above all, prepare these students for the real world, for what will be their true experience. This cannot be achieved without the qualities and training or personality and attitudes of a leader. Leadership is therefore essential for the work of teachers in the classroom in our qualitative research, which, through a survey, invites us to learn the opinions of these young university students.