Model of professional competencies of military instructors of the Air Defense Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran

One of the success factors of educational centers is the competence of teachers. The higher the quality of educational centers from the teachers' point of view, the more successful they will be in achieving their goals. The purpose of this research is to design the model of professional competencies of military instructors of the air defense training centers of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army. The current type of research is applied, the research method is content analysis and its approach is qualitative. The statistical population of the research consisted of 15 experts in the field of human resources management working in the training centers of the Air Defense Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who were selected by non-probability sampling method. The method and tools of data collection were field and semi-structured interviews. Content analysis method was used to analyze the data. The research findings indicate the identification of teachers' professional competencies including functional and task competencies (7 categories), moral (8 categories), social and communication (7 categories), military (4 categories) and cognitive (4 categories) competencies. And it was suggested that teachers' social competences, indicators of effective communication skills, emotional intelligence and cultural intelligence, motivation in learners and tendency to team work should be strengthened through training processes and human capital development.