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Training of professional teaching skills
for the intervention of children with
attention deficit disorder: challenges of
the teacher in contemporary inclusive
education.
Formación de competencias didácticas profesionales para
la intervención de niños con trastorno de déficit de
atención: retos del profesor en la educación inclusiva
contemporánea
Aliz Karina Guerrero Solís
*
José Luis Álava Mieles
*
José Luis Álava Alcívar
*
Abstract
The objective of this review article is to analyze the theoretical
assumptions of professional teacher training from the perspective of
didactic competencies, using the heuristic and ethnographic method
as a reference through the interpretation, analysis and synthesis of
the documentary review. A theoretical approach of the teacher's
professional training was carried out, in which the relationship
between the pedagogical and didactic elements that must be handled
to achieve an inclusive education was established, in this sense, the
role of the teacher in the interaction with the student and his role as
mediator and guide of the teaching-learning process (PEA,Likewise,
active methodologies are analyzed and how to plan the different non-
personal components of the PEA, so that the methods maintain the
* Magister en Educación mención Inclusión Educativa y
Atención a la Diversidad, Universidad Laica Vicente
Rocafuerte de Guayaquil, Ecuador, aguerreros@ulvr.edu.ec
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8468-2106
*
Master in Educational Development. University of
Guayaquil, Ecuador, jose.alavam@ug.edu.ec,
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2706-5870
*
Master's Degree in Administration with mention in Human
Resources, Universidad de Guayaquil, Ecuador,
jluisalava85@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7364-
9458
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concentration of children with attention deficit disorders. It is
concluded that there is still a need for a professional teacher training
process that favors didactic competences to achieve an inclusive
education and that this is still one of the main challenges in
contemporary education.
Keywords: training, competencies, didactics, attention deficit,
inclusive education.
Resumen
Se presenta un artículo de revisión que tiene como objetivo analizar
los presupuestos teóricos de la formación profesional del docente,
desde la perspectiva de las competencias didácticas, para esto, se
utilizó como referencia el método heurístico y etnográfico a través
de la interpretación, análisis y síntesis de la revisión documental. Se
realizó un abordaje teórico de la formación profesional del docente,
en el que se establece la relación entre los elementos pedagógicos y
didácticos que debe manejar para lograr una educación inclusiva, en
este sentido se analizó el rol que cumple en la interacción con el
estudiante y su papel de mediador y orientador del proceso de
enseñanza aprendizaje (PEA,) en el que debe principalmente hacer
del estudiante un protagonista en su proceso de meta- cognición,
Asimismo, se analizan las metodologías activas y como se debe
planificar los diferentes componentes no personales del PEA, para
que los métodos mantengan la concentración de niños con trastornos
de déficit de atención. Se concluye que aún se requiere de un proceso
de formación profesional docente que favorezcan las competencias
didácticas para lograr una educación inclusiva y que este sigue
siendo uno de los retos principales en la educación contemporánea.
Palabras clave: Formación, competencias, didáctica, déficit de
atención, educación inclusiva
Introduction
Teacher preparation focuses on pedagogical success and expertise in
new academic skills, which is reflected in the development of
students in the classroom, strengthening the development of
knowledge that allows us to move forward with solid steps in the
face of the different problems that arise in the current system in
which we operate. (Turpo-Gebera, 2013)
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When referring to teacher preparation, it is not enough to make use
of a number of didactic tools to solve academic problems in a
classroom, the approach must go a little further, it must be focused
on the human being as such, which requires a competent
professional, able to identify in the classroom the social difficulties
that affect their students and how these are triggering failures of
various kinds in the development of their school activities, which
prevail in these students and use the means and resources necessary
to include them in the classroom in an efficient manner and to ensure
comprehensive learning. This is the real challenge of inclusive
education today.
For Sepúlveda & Véliz, (2013) the teacher today has understood that
his role as a counselor has eradicated the obsolete concept that
information is only imparted through lectures, the behaviorist and
traditionalist visions have become a thing of the past. It is therefore
necessary to go much further. These new changes, reflected in an
accelerated pace of lifestyles, as well as the free access to
information, have increased the demand for the level of professional
didactic competence of teachers, due to the impact of the
contemporary world. Therefore, it is necessary to assume these new
challenges and levels of competencies towards the use of new
technologies and the training of teachers to meet the educational
diversity.
Materials and methods
The study of Barros & Turpo, (2017) establishes a quantitative
approach, since it works with statistical data, to determine
predictions or patterns of behavior of the phenomenon or problem
posed, in this case the result of academic performance that is affected
by not taking into account the learning styles of students and their
study habits. This approach uses data collection to test hypotheses,
which it is important to note, have been raised in advance of the
methodological process; with a quantitative approach a problem is
posed and specific questions from which the hypotheses are derived.
This research is correlational-explanatory in scope, which, as it
expresses Pavón & Ferruz, (2010) being explanatory, its interest is
focused on explaining why a phenomenon occurs and under what
conditions it manifests itself or why two or more variables are
related, and correlational because its purpose is to know the
relationship or degree of association that exists between two or more
concepts, categories or variables in a particular sample or context.
Sometimes only the relationship between two variables is analyzed,
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but frequently links between three, four or more variables are found
in the study, in this case with three variables: learning style, study
habits and academic performance, which are worked with preset
instruments, which are related to each other.
Results
The process of teacher training requires didactic preparation, the
author's research shows the limitations in its conception for the
attention to school diversity and reveals the need to argue from the
use of methods that promote the problematization, inquiry and
reflection of the educational reality for the attention of children with
attention deficit.
There are limitations that are expressed in the formation of didactic
competences to solve professional problems related to the
educational attention to school children with learning difficulties,
from the budgets of inclusive education. The lack of
professionalization of some teachers means that in many cases
children with school disorders or school problems are not attended
to, which later affects their development.
In short, there is a clear relationship between knowledge of ADHD
and the specific training that teachers have received; if teachers have
not had specific training on the subject, they also do not know how
to deal with the disorder.
Teachers require didactic competencies that allow them to provide
different methodological strategies in the classroom, making
environmental and methodological adaptations applicable to the
whole group, including the behavior of the child with ADHD
indicators.
Nowadays, in the XXI century, the teacher has more responsibilities
and the current society requires him/her to be prepared as an advisor,
mediator, motivator, facilitator and in many cases even as a
psychologist. González & Recino, (2015) It is considered necessary
to approach the student from the social reality in which he/she is
developing. These social factors influence each of the academic
processes taught by the teacher. For this reason, the teacher
preparation deserves the demands of today's world, in order to offer
an educational quality focused on the development of the human
being as such, who in the future can solve the vicissitudes that arise
in an adequate way.
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It is understood that education is the basis for a society to grow
actively and dynamically, in reference to this, the epistemic
foundations of pedagogy echo those elements related to the
academic growth of learners, which seek to enhance the skills and
competencies present in students. This binomial between education
as an axiological structure and pedagogy as the schooling process
where the human being is formed is fundamental as a
multidirectional process since its dialectic relationship allows the
development of students' competencies in knowledge, standards of
conduct, ways of being and their procedural application to the
environment and social life of the human being.
In itself, pedagogy is based on knowing how to guide and train the
human being. In teacher training, pedagogy refers to personal skills,
mastery of various forms of communication, knowledge of the
discipline taught, professional skills based on Vygotsky's theory,
which is based on the sociocultural learning of each individual.
Vygotsky refers that the human being from birth, already brings his
natural development line, this line comes into function when the
individual interacts with the environment where the mediators that
are responsible for guiding the individual to develop their cognitive
abilities influence.
Therefore, it is necessary to take into consideration three
fundamental aspects so that the didactic process can be carried out
successfully: among them are adapting the environment; this refers
to the facilities (classroom) where the educational action will be
carried out, providing adequate materials to promote meaningful
learning; likewise, conditioning the learning environment is
necessary to create the necessary conditions for the assimilation of
new knowledge, an environment conducive to learning new things
and generating the capacity to increase knowledge and finally
cultivate the student's learning.
It can be affirmed that the teacher must generate a regenerative and
vital vision, which gives the guidelines for new learning proposals
that must be in accordance with the changes of the time, in which the
knowledge of the material environment, society, the human being as
such, is being developed. del Mastro & Monereo, (2014) The
responsibility of the methodological part has to do with the capacity
to respond to the needs within the classroom, it consists of designing
strategies to enhance the educational quality in the different areas of
knowledge seeking to achieve the objectives proposed in the
teaching-learning process for the students. (Gavilanes et al., 2019)
When referring to methodological strategies, it should be taken into
consideration that teaching is not an easy activity and although it
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seems inherent to human beings, it requires constant preparation to
support situations or problems that are very common today in
different educational institutions. Therefore, it requires the search for
resources that adapt and facilitate the task of teaching and dealing
with the diversity of students to work in an integrated,
comprehensive and flexible way the curricular content. According to
(García et al., 2014) "Learning strategies have been conceptualized
as a set of mental operations and procedures of codification,
acquisition, retention and evocation it is necessary to implement
them, in the classroom it is necessary to make use of different types
of strategies since each learner has his own pace of learning." p. 34
In view of the need to improve learning, it is necessary that the
teacher makes use of methodological tools that allow to maximize
the potential of each of the students, organizing the educational
teaching activity that allows to see the methodological strategies
through a set of procedures and cognitive, affective and psychomotor
resources and therefore achieve that the student is the protagonist of
his own learning process, strictly speaking it is the duty to be within
the development of the educational process. However, diversified
attention is required and it is there where the different didactic
resources of the professional teacher allow him to introduce active
methodologies.
The personal components of the teaching-learning process allow an
interaction where the responsible involvement of the actors in
education, achieve the satisfaction and preparation of its actors, the
active methodologies are a process led by teachers, but always
contextualized in the reality of the environment in which learning
takes place.
On the other hand, the non-personal components of the teaching-
learning process establish the logical organization of the planning
and dosage of the content, which is expressed in objective, content,
methods, means, ways of organizing teaching and evaluation. In this
sense, the methods refer to the strategies and various methodological
procedures used in the classroom, these currently encourage the
active participation of the learner in order to develop thinking
processes, including brainstorming, concept maps, development of
strategies for problem solving, hypothesis formulation, role playing,
simulation, project-based learning, case studies, cooperative work
and other metacognitive strategies for learning to learn.
It is understood that the main advantages of these active
methodologies are the contribution to the innovation of the teaching-
learning process, since they are easily integrated with each other and
allow the motivation of the student to be the main protagonist of his
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class, promoting knowledge and autonomous learning through the
impulse to research and the use of ICT. These elements require the
development of the teacher's competencies, so that classroom
activities respond to a conscious and organized process by the
teacher and that class incidents respond to the casuistic events of life
and not to improvisation due to lack of preparation.
In order to refer to the term teacher competencies, it is necessary to
define what a competency is in the educational field. This is a
multidimensional term where it is desired to achieve optimal
performance in complex and authentic contexts, through the
integration of skills, abilities, attitudes and values that are currently
necessary to provide meaningful learning that ensures future ability
to make decisions correctly. In this sense, the competencies that a
teacher has to make use of refer to the set of actions in an
environment, where it is essential to use resources such as: cognitive,
meta-cognitive, material, social and the use of language and codes
with the aspiration of being able in the future to have the ability to
solve a problem. Santana et al., (2010) The author states that
education is more than acquiring knowledge; rather, it should focus
on providing solutions to social problems, integrating knowledge
that points towards learning based on competencies. In another
sense, it is understood that cognitive and socio-affective skills
(learning to know), psychological, sensory and motor skills (learning
to do), which allow to adequately carry out a role, a function, an
activity or a task, must be the basis of knowledge. Carreño, (2016)
Therefore, knowledge must be the product of multidisciplinary and
multidimensional contents, which demand a personal action of
commitment, within the framework of social interactions where they
have and will have their concrete expression.
The teacher who has the ability to prepare a pleasant class in a
friendly, fun environment where there is an open dialogue, is the
right place for students to acquire knowledge in a satisfactory
manner, the pedagogy taught, assertive communication, are
definitely essential for a pleasant class. In order to have a dynamic
class that generates potentialities, there are resources and tools that
contribute to the teaching-learning process such as: use of new
technologies, meaningful learning techniques, playful activities and
audiovisual material; all these resources and tools are useful when
imparting knowledge, even more so in students with attention
deficit, they facilitate the teaching process by creating a unique
experience in each of the students.
It is necessary to remember that the educational field is in continuous
change, which requires teachers to evolve and align themselves with
new trends. For this reason, traditional competencies are necessary,
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but it is necessary to add others that contribute to provide quality
education. In these environments are located the didactic
competences for the attention to diversity and specifically to the
attention deficit.
Attention deficit was detailed for the first time relatively more than
a century ago, there are references that children with these symptoms
today called TDH. In the year 1902 George Stillli and Alfred Tregold
gave the initial descriptions in a rigorous and scientific way,
discovered 43 infants who showed serious problems at the moment
of paying attention, it was inferred that they could have a
deterioration in the control of their attention states and follow the
rules of conduct of the other children.
A student affected by this disorder is difficult to have the ability to
concentrate adequately to understand the content presented by the
teacher, taking into account that sometimes this disorder is
accompanied by impulsive behaviors where the optimal
development and development of the class is more difficult.
At present, attention deficit is more prevalent in children of different
educational institutions when the specific symptoms of ADHD are
combined with cognitive deficits involved in the acquisition of the
basic instrumental areas of reading and writing, we are talking about
an ADHD and a specific learning difficulty.
Nowadays, attention deficit is a disorder that is reflected very
frequently in the school context, therefore according to Zunino,
(2016) states that "ADHD has been considered as a condition that
largely predominated in males with respect to females, but this
theory is losing strength as time goes by and it is currently estimated
that its prevalence is very similar in both sexes, although it seems
that hyperactivity may predominate in males and attention deficit in
females "p. 89.
In this sense, the same student may exhibit characteristics of both
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and a specific learning
disability, both conditions tend to have similar etiological factors
such as hereditary predispositions, prenatal factors, maturational
delays. Like ADHD it is a neurobiological disorder which affects the
functional structure of the brain centers which are related to control
the attentional processes.
Difficulties presented by a child with ADD:
It is difficult to select a particular focus of attention.
Presents slowness in motor areas and in the resolution of
assigned tasks.
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Distraction is one of the primary factors in this type of
disorder.
Emotional areas are also affected, resulting in low self-
esteem and behavioral problems in certain cases.
The following symptoms can be taken into consideration as
a warning measure:
It is very difficult for them to pay attention to specific
details; external stimuli are their main distractor, and for
this reason they make continuous mistakes when carrying
out an assigned activity.
When referring to him, he does not seem to hear what is
being said, he seems distracted.
In the organization of tasks or knows how to use time, it is
difficult to finish an activity.
They constantly lose or misplace their materials and are
disorganized.
They easily forget the basic materials for the development
of their school activities.
Children with ADD manifest all of these types of symptoms at
school and in their families, which significantly affects their
academic, personal and social performance.
Discussion
The timely preparation of teachers to deal with attention deficit
disorder in the classroom is of utmost importance when treating
students with attention deficit disorder and improving their learning.
There are certain significant points to consider when witnessing this
disorder in students: first of all, any type of medical problem should
be ruled out before inferring that the student has attention deficit, and
the support of parents, teachers and the educational institution should
be sought when detecting the difficulty. The teacher should seek the
help of an expert on the subject to receive the appropriate guidance
for this disorder. Take into consideration the affective part of the
student and its impact on the development of the learning process
and finally express clearly with them, always seeking eye contact.
In the intervention of students with attention deficit, it is necessary
to take into consideration the development of activities that generate
significant learning in the students, and that these activities fulfill the
function of an instrument for the resolution of future problems. A
very important role is played by Vygotsky's cultural-historical
approach, which mentions the individual as the architect of thought
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through the social relationship with the environment, developing
individual skills and in turn projecting them on the social, human
and creative level.
The teacher is the generator of the autonomy of the students, taking
into consideration that he/she must know the way of learning of
his/her students, through the individual characteristics that they
possess, by means of an environment of mutual respect and adequate
atmosphere for the development of the learning process, as it is
manifested in the constructivist theory.
The appropriate curricular approach for the teaching-learning
process with students who are affected with attention deficit has to
lead an active process, where he is the protagonist of cognitive
growth and is able to act against hypotheses, procedures and
development of text comprehension, because it requires to focus
their attention and keep active constantly, so that the planning of
cognitive strategies should stimulate the ability to develop their own
concepts or knowledge through thought. These procedures allow the
good development of the child with adequate supervision favored by
the teacher.
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