Praxis (Dec 2016)

The essence of training trainers in the context of distance education

  • Yudy Alexandra Molina-Hurtado,
  • Claudia Patricia Moreno-Cely

DOI
https://doi.org/10.21676/23897856.1852
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 0
pp. 111 – 117

Abstract

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The training of trainers in the context of distance education becomes a challenge for teacher’s degree program in Basic Education with emphasis in Mathematics, Humanities and Spanish language, inviting them to structure learning environments conducive to strengthening the apprehension of powers conceptual, educational, technological, and social work to ensure the mobilization of knowledge in concrete situations and different scenarios. The objective of the article focuses on the importance of the training of trainers in the context of distance education so characterized, on the one hand, the trainer as a person who refines and contemplates his practice from a surrounding reality that impels the formation of values ethical, human, political, economic, social and immersed cultic in the role of teachers in the twenty-first century, and on the other hand, teachers in training as critical beings, advocates and peacemakers to think as teachers for life. Under this, a reflection between teacher training and professional development to the challenges that teachers face in training regarding their teaching practices supported from teaching and affirmed in the classroom through the teaching process is presented under the staging of competitions and performances from processes that generate autonomy to face the complex world in which we live.

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