Ensino, escolho-te a ti: a menina que afinal queria ser professora de Educação Física

Abstract

This document was elaborated on the purpose of the school placement which is part of the Master Degree in Teaching of Physical Education in elementary and secondary education of Faculty of Sport, University of Porto. The author, after some sports experiences during her years of mandatory school, chose Sports to be her profession, to be deeply linked to it for life. Then, on her last year of the Graduation on Sports Sciences, realized that she had a special affection for teaching and decided to chase it. The school placement took place in a school with basic education and high school, in Vila Nova de Gaia. The preservice teacher was part of a practicum group, with two other preservice teachers and a cooperating teacher, counting on the link to the faculty established by the faculty supervisor. The report considers the year of school placement, lived in this context, that provided a wide range of experiences. There were many doubts about planning, operating and evaluating, many dialogues regarding difficulties and understandings, as well as creativity, initiative and the importance of sharing. In the process of professional development the challenges and achievements regarding the performance on the teaching-learning process were decisive, as well observation and participating and making non academic activities. Also the plain everyday life in the community, where is encased an unmatched treasure, with debates among colleagues, interaction with students, chores, conviviality with the community in general were crucial to the construction of the professional identity of the preservice teacher. It took place a study that, in a distance learning reality, treated the retaining of knowledge of the students about "how to do" and about the regulatory rules of the sports. This way, the present report illustrates the journey lived by a preservice teacher, which found out teaching and fell in love with the profession.