Active Pedagogy as a Tool for Innovation: Perspectives from Professional Development in Teacher Education

This article analyzes the organization, structure and implementation of a training course called Approaches to active pedagogy offered by the Department of Continuing Education at National University of Education, UNAE. It served 400 Ecuadorian teachers, who work at the elementary and high school levels. The purpose of the course was to expand and strengthen teachers' knowledge on issues related to active pedagogy as a possibility to generate processes of educational innovation through a diversity of strategies. The results obtained show a dynamization of the training processes and the satisfaction of teachers in topics that allow them to transform their teaching practices.