"Uma escola de todos, para todos" Uma aventura multicultural

Abstract

This document portrays the author's journey, as a trainee teacher, resulting from the curricular practicum, of the master's degree in Middle and High School Physical Education Teaching, based at Faculdade de Desporto da Universidade do Porto. The practicum is the student's integrative experience into the teaching professional world, due to of his insertion on a teaching context, for the first time. It must be said as well that this experience was shared with a practicum group, constituted by three trainee teachers, overseen by a cooperating teacher from the school, and guided by a faculty's professor. The goal of this report is to encapsulate this professionalizing experience, addressing the evolution of the trainee teacher. The document begins with a personal characterization, the initial expectations about the experience and a brief explanation about the institution in which the practicum took place. Then, the unavoidable operational categories to the teaching function are addressed, and the trainee reflects on the way in which he used those capacities. The investigation project finalizes this report and aims at the analysis of the impact that multiculturalism has on student's motivation and their perspective on teaching styles. It had the contribution of a ninth-grade class as the sample and the results showed that, even though there were differences on the intergroup motivation and the perception they had about their Physical Education teachers, both groups of students experienced autocratic teaching styles and would like to experience more student-oriented leadership. This curricular practicum was fundamental for the trainee teacher's professional development because it allowed him to apply all the theoretical knowledge, he had acquired, throughout his master's degree's first year, and identify the tools that might make the teaching-learning process more effective.