THE TEACHING PRACTICE THROUGH THE VOICE OF THE TEACHERS OF THE NATURAL SCIENCES SUBJECT: CONSTITUTION, NEEDS, KNOWLEDGE AND USE OF THE PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATION TIME
Continuing teacher education; science teaching; elementary School; final years; pedagogical coordination.
The role of the Natural Science (NC) 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. Attentive to this demand, we consider the existence of pedagogical coordination time, in the opposite shift to the regency, directed according to the documents of the State Department of Education of the Federal District (SEEDF), to reflection on these pedagogical processes and the continuing education of professionals. Thus, the recognition of the training demand and the possibility of time, raised the investigation on how the Natural Sciences 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 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). In this way, the analysis of the records and the observation as a mediator provided an understanding of the daily life of the NC teachers. It was possible to recognize in the teachers' speech a desire to systematize the moments of pedagogical coordination and to value the group's knowledge, in the search for solutions to everyday problems.