Ensino "pouco" tradicional: crónicas de um professor confinado

Abstract

This report has been designed as part of a School Placement which took place at the Physcial Education Teaching for Elementary and Secundary School Masters programme from the Sports Faculty at University of Porto. It covers the views of a preservice teacher experiencing a first contact with the teaching profession on a real-life context and applying and adapting knowledge acquired throughout the teaching programme. This practicum training took place in a school located in Grater Porto and the main intervenients included a practicum group, a cooperating teacher and a supervisor from the faculty and students. In the course of this document, a number of experiences, fears and difficulties, problems, misfortunes and solutions are portrayed, as well as a very personal narrative of how the academic year unfolded. Extracurricular activities are also reported, such as curricular physical education, school trips and interactions with other classes. The distance learning sphere in the context of COVID-19 as well as its influence in the academic world completes this reported teaching experience.