Meaning and significance of the continued training of physical education teachers at the Londrina Municipal Education Bureau

Abstract

Continued teacher training is a topic that has been studied by several authors and can be understood as a process of complex and continuous development of reflection and construction about the profession and not a product ready to be consumed. The Municipal Department of Education of Londrina (SME) is responsible for the continued training of all teachers who work in the municipal education network. The present study sought to find out, with the Physical Education teachers of the said network, what the meaning and meaning attributed by them, of the continuous training offered by the SME. For this we used a questionnaire with statements associated with Likert scale of agreement and the theme was divided into three categories: Conception of continuous training; Conception of teaching; Relationship of professional interest-need and offer by SME. For the application of the questionnaire, an email was sent with a link to the form to the 159 teachers from the municipal network who are taking part in the continuous physical education training and 81 teachers participated in the research. The data were analyzed according to the higher incidence of responses that pointed out that teachers consider the continuous training process important for professional development and that it is capable of producing changes in the teaching identity, that they have the conception of being professionals of education and that this requires continuous training, that the continuous training offered by the SME contributes to the professional growth of teachers and that it should prioritize moments of exchange of experiences. We believe that the points raised from the answers should be discussed with the group of teachers and we conclude that it is necessary for the teacher to attribute meaning and meaning to this process. We also concluded that continuing education programs have much to contribute to professional development, based on reflections that favor the construction of teaching identity.