The direction of pre-professional internships. Perspective from a new quality of the tutor

The training of future production and service professionals in the workplace is a complex process. The company tutor is responsible for directing pre-professional practices and demonstrating the technological procedure of the processes, from the academy. The results of the diagnosis carried out demonstrated the need to pedagogically prepare company tutors in the direction of pre-professional practices and to justify the construction of a new quality. The objective of this article was to propose a new quality of the company tutor in the direction of pre-professional practices, as well as the description of the relationships among university-polytechnic school-company-community and their particularities. Theoretical and empirical methods were used, such as: historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, system approach, observation, modeling, expert criteria and group interview, which allowed to approach the subject in a scientific way. It is proposed as a new quality of the tutor in companies that the production and/or services professional is directly linked to the production and/or services process and that he should be selected to direct the pre-professional practices of the students, related to the specialties of Technical and Professional Education , promoting a better performance of their tutoring functions and, consequently, an adequate direction of the pre-professional practices of fourth-year students of the Industrial Mechanics specialty and its consequent impact on the training of middle technicians.