La formación continua del docente de bachillerato de ciencias experimentales en instituciones educativas del Ecuador

Abstract

Abstract:The continuous training of a teacher deserves a broad study in support of major benefits for society, due to its influence on their job in the classrooms. The following assignment was developed to analyze the main needs of the continuous education of educators that are actually working in Bachillerato General Unificado (BGU) in educational institutions of the country, and they teach subjects related to experimental sciences. For this purpose, a combined approach was used, a non-experimental quantitative, descriptive and cross-wise type, and a qualitative approach as an investigation-action. The methods applied were of inductive and analytic type, with the application of a survey to a sample group of ten teachers, which is contrasted in a hermeneutical way with the information of bibliographical sources. The results frame the needs that focus on topics related to design and curricular planning, learning theories, methods and didactic resources, determine that the teachers at the end of their career they are prepared to face the challenges that implicate the curricular changes proposed by the Ministry of Education, valued in general level of performance in pedagogical themes.