Ser Professora de Educação Física: Uma Coreografia Inacabada

Abstract

The Professional Practicum Training constituted a decisive moment in my development as a future Physical Education teacher, representing the transition from academic training to the reality of teaching practice, a kind of change of perspective that allowed me to experience the challenges, responsibilities, and demands inherent to the profession. The school placement took place in a Portuguese public school within the scope of the Master's Degree in Teaching Physical Education in Basic and Secondary Education at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Porto. Entitled "Being a Physical Education Teacher: An Unfinished Choreography", this School Placement Report seeks to portray a continuous process of professional development, marked by moments of learning, reflection, and transformation. Throughout the Professional Practicum Training, I was confronted with challenges related to classroom management, adapting to students' characteristics and needs, promoting their engagement in learning, and making constant pedagogical decisions. Simultaneously, this experience enabled me to develop competencies in planning, intervention, assessment, and critical reflection, contributing to the consolidation of my professional identity. The pedagogical practice developed sought to adopt a student-centred approach, promoting meaningful learning experiences, students' autonomy, and cooperation. The investigative component included the study entitled "Promoting Students' Engagement and Cooperation in Physical Education through Cooperative Learning: An Action Research Study", which allowed me to reflect on pedagogical practice and develop investigative competence in educational contexts through the search for strategies that contribute to improving the teaching-learning process. The report is based on the idea of the continuous and unfinished nature of teacher education, seeking to represent the professional practicum training not as a completed journey, but as a stage of construction, growth, and continuous transformation.