CONTINUING EDUCATION OF THE FINAL YEARS SCIENCE TEACHER: PROFESSIONAL PERCEPTION ABOUT THE POSSIBILITIES OF USING PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATION TIME
Continuing teacher education; science teaching; elementary School; final years; pedagogical coordination.
The role of the Natural Science teacher requires conceptual and methodological knowledge, aligned with the needs of society, in addition to those that favor interaction with students of the age group served. Even having these needs met in the initial training, it is understood that teachers need to continue the reflections related to the teaching and learning processes. Recognition of this demand led to an investigation into how the Natural Science teacher who works in the final years of Elementary School perceives his professional learning and the possibility of using the pedagogical coordination space for his continued education. To this end, we propose to understand the view of teachers about the opportunities and possibilities of continuing education, investigate how the pedagogical coordinator and other members of the pedagogical teams of the school units can contribute to the training needs of professionals, and build indications of a path of continuing education that subsidizes the definitions and pedagogical actions of the schools surveyed. The investigation will be based on a qualitative research, using the action research methodology, to be applied in public schools in the Federal District. During the research process, group discussions, questionnaires, interview and document analysis will be used, with the information examined according to the Content Analysis described by Bardin (2011).