Teacher training strategy to strengthen inclusive processes in secondary school teachers

In this investigation, a teacher training strategy is elaborated in relation to inclusive education to strengthen inclusive processes in secondary school teachers from one state school from Bogota, Colombia. The methodological approach is qualitative based on an action research design, as a data collection instrument a semi-structured survey is applied to 10 secondary school teachers from campus B, afternoon shift, which make up the sample of this study. The data is analyzed through triangulation and categorization of the information, the categories of analysis are knowledge related to inclusive education, inclusive culture and pedagogical practices. In light of the findings, it is determined that teachers need to be trained in those three aspects, which became the three study units of an online teacher training course called "Inclusion, everyone's business" created on the Moodle platform and stored in Mil Aulas, in which the same 10 teachers surveyed at the beginning of the research process participate.The results obtained from the application of the course show that teacher training is indeed necessary to strengthen inclusive processes in schools, since it allows generating positive attitudes towards diversity, obtaining knowledge that allows the teachers comprehend inclusive processes in the framework of an educational attention that responds to the diversity in the classroom, as well as to acquire tools that will allow them to transform their pedagogical practices in order to attend in a pertinent manner the different populations in the classroom.