Especial education: distance pedagogical practices in teacher’s formation to Specialized Education Service (SES)

Abstract

Every day, the accelerate technological development is changing the way we plan and operationalize the implementation of courses in educational institutions. To the pointed panorama should be added another group of factors which, nowadays, can’t be unknown. This group of factors refers to the management of processes involving special and distance education –DE. This study, qualitative exploratory kind, has an objective analyze the dimensions of teaching methodology, assessment criteria and theoretical assumptions from which the Course of Specialized Educational Services-SES is structured. It was found that students who took the course, showed good performance in learning the content developed at the same time also identified situations in their professional field in which they could put intopractice the precepts studied regarding the practice of the SES. We conclude that we need to know all processes that involve learning through distance education so a good performance in the educational purposes can be achieved, setout in a given context. When it comes to teacher training, this care is even more important, since access to teachers who want to learn innovative teaching practices must be promoted.