Relatório de Estágio Profissional "Só com a luz do saber se alcança a vitória: Relato de uma Professora Estagiária no redefinir da sua tática de jogo"

Abstract

The practicum training is assumed as an essential turning point in the transition from academic life to the professional world. The application of knowledge learned during educational training, associated with a process of sharing with fellow preservice teacher and supervisors, are the central elements that allow construct a professional identity. This document describes the lived experiences of a preservice teacher (the author) during the school placement. The recreated scenery is a badminton game, held in a Private College, located in Vila Nova de Gaia. Structurally, the practicum report is divided in three phases, answering to the questions emerged from the practice: the initial expectations, the characterization of the context and the accomplishment of the professional practice. In this purpose, starting from a more personal perspective, it was in the dependence of my partners and supervisors that I built the true meaning of the game. Teamwork has become the engine of building the pillars on which I have based all my intervention. However, it was in the contact with the students that I rediscovered Physical Education, becoming more and more autonomous and emancipated in the teaching profession. Assessment for Learning was the turning point in this practicum year because it changed my whole Physical Education conception and ways of being in the profession. The center of the process became the student and his personal growth as an active builder of his own learning. The document ends with a reflection that emphasizes the formative value of this practicum training experience and its impact on my personal and professional development. The constant search for personal fulfillment, always interpreted as incomplete, whether in established relationships as well in the experiences and lessons learned from practice, were the background for the preparation of this report. During the way, which was sustained by the reflection, a new game tactic and a new way of interpreting and performing the teaching were concretized. I grew up; I learned and became a Physical Education teacher.