Interdisciplinary performance of University Professors: development and assessment of the generic competences in the training of primary school students

Resumen

In this paper, both design and results gathered in an Education Innovation project (PIE 2010-2012/6266) are presented. This project is carried out by the University of the Basque Country within the frame of the Bachelor Degree of Primary Education offered by the University School of School-Teachers at Donostia-Saint Sebastian. Professors from five different departments and
knowledge areas sharing teaching courses in the first level the Degree of Primary Education took part in the design, implementation, and evaluation of this work. It has been proposed an interdisciplinary work, based on a dynamic and cooperative methodology. The evaluation of this experience has been founded on two branches: on the one hand, evaluative scales built by the
students of the Degree of Primary Education and, on the other, the final impressions of the professors taking part in this proposal. Taking into account these evaluations, the convenience, and even need, of the professors´ teamworking has been made clear, in order for the students to
achieve the generic competences for the degree. This experience has been further expanded to all terms and academic courses of the degree.