The professional development in teaching in Higher Education: agenda, its frame and proposals for its adoption

The text underlines how strategic is for universities the development of a well funded agenda on teacher training or in teaching development. When assuming both the new social and productive demands, a renovate alignment between university and those new social requirements appear to be necessary. Within such context learning & teaching in Higher Education turns up to be a key issue. Beyond it, learning is shaped in a very different way from the current conventions of it. Competences as those of reflection, autonomous learning, initiative and creativity emerge with a new meaning within the higher education training. Thus, its development is part of the new frame for understanding quality. Thereby, teaching and the new approaches to learning are amongst the most relevant issues to be discussed in such new alignment. According to the above purpose of defining an advanced proposal for such agenda, the international literature and some experiences along with their related frames were analyzed. Such information provided a basis for a well funded frame for that agenda. Evidences and reflections collected report on an arising argument: the straight relationship between professional teaching development and student's quality learning. The text ends with an specific stepped proposal aimed at the professional enhancement in teaching and aligned with a concept of quality learning.