Research, Teaching Practices, School Improvement, Systematization of Experiences

Abstract

During the last decades, a great amount of demands derived from the pressures of the market and the new international agendas, have fallen on the professors. The need to have citizens and workers more autonomous, efficient, familiar with technology, creative and productive, puts in the school a series of new and complex tasks. The problem is that most of the teachers in service within the schools were not trained for these tasks. The changes have been so radical that, even when a large investment has been made in offering training that allows them to be carried out, qualitative changes do not vary within the classroom.

Attempts to resolve this situation have focused on intervening different variables related to the effectiveness of the school: special subsidies, funds for improvement projects, improvement of infrastructure, delivery of teaching materials, expansion of libraries, implementation of computer rooms, resources audiovisuals and, of course, teacher training. The investment has been enormous, however, the results do not yet meet the expectations placed on this process of educational reform.