"Estágio Profissional: De Estudante a Professor de Educação Física"

Abstract

This document is called the Practicum Training Report, appearing within the context of the Practicum Training of the Curricular Unit, referring to the 2nd year of the Master's degree in Physical Education Teaching in Basic and Secondary Education, at the Faculty of Sports of the University of Porto. This report intends to describe my path and experiences as a pre-service teacher. It also highlights the fundamental role of the practicum training in the teacher training, because it is a space in which the knowledge acquired throughout the academic career is put into practice. During this process of supervised practicum training, I experienced several emotions such as uncertainty, questioning and reflection. Elements that contributed to my growth as a teacher. Throughout the report it is possible to observe the confrontation with this new reality and some of my difficulties and challenges, as well as the processes that led me to overcome them. A descriptive study was carried out where the investigated theme was physical fitness, specifically "Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Composition in 10th grade students", with the objective of characterizing the classes included in the pre-service student nucleus. Very positive results were observed, noting that most of the students were in the healthy zone in almost all parameters evaluated. It was possible to verify that the participants were mostly in the healthy zone. The differences between the averages of % body fat and number of shuttles turns proved to be significant in terms of sex. As a function of the extracurricular physical activity, differences with statistical significance were found only in the average number of turns of the Shuttle.