Methodology for the continuing education of practicing municipal pre-university Physics methodologists

Abstract

Introduction: continuous training is a topic of current study that favors raising the quality of training processes at different educational levels. Objective: to develop a methodology for the continuous training of practicing Physics methodologists from the workplace. Materials and methods: theoretical methods such as analysis and synthesis and inductive and deductive methods were used in the research. Of the empirical methods, participant observation, documentary review, a survey of laboratory technicians, physics teachers, heads of municipal departments at the pre-university educational level and school directors, and group interviews with students were used. Results: insufficiencies are evident in the diversity in the training and in the previous professional experience of the methodologists, in terms of the homogeneity given by being university graduates and having obtained a satisfactory evaluation of their work performance and the heterogeneity, because they belong to different teaching subsystems and to various areas of knowledge. Conclusions: the developed methodology proposes an effective way for the continuous training of Physics methodologists and the results of the expert criteria allowed confirming the validity of the system of procedures, which corroborates that the proposal constitutes a feasible alternative to reduce the didactic-methodological insufficiencies in these professionals.