Generic and Specific Competencies of the Supervisor in Pedagogical Context

: For the success of the learning of students of higher education it is necessary that the teacher plays the supervisory action that aims to ensure a learning adapted to the biopsycho social context of the learners.Objective: To evaluate the perspective of the students on the competences of the mentor teacher. The study descriptive with favorable opinion of the Ethics Committee was carried out on a sample by 306 students, from a Polytechnique Institute of Portugal (81.7% women), with a mean of 21.15 years. Data collection wascarried out via the online application of Cunha et al.'S (2017) Generic and Specific Supervisor Competency Scale. The results support the importance of the assignment of a mentor teacher in College (87.5%), with follow-up from 1st to 4th year (60.4%). They also suggest the preference of daily sessions (51.6%) in the training place (52.4%), lasting lessthan one hour (49.7%). The character is tics most valued by the students are generic competences and the most valued item was the demon strate empathy, patience, under standing and readiness to dialogue. The results suggest that one should consider the evaluation of the competences obtained by the teachers when evaluating their pedagogical performance in the scope of supervision. Even though higher education students value the existence of a mentor teacher with competences for the supervision of learning, their attribution assumes relevance in the strategic management of innovative pedagogical practices in the fight against failure and school abandonment.