Do Outro Lado do Liceu: Um Percurso de Construção da Identidade Profissional em Educação Física

Abstract

This Professional School Placement Report was developed within the curricular unit of Professional Internship, integrated in the second year of the Master's Degree in Teaching Physical Education in Basic and Secondary Education at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Porto. The School Placement was carried out at Escola Secundária Jaime Moniz, in Funchal, with a 12th grade class from the Scientific-Humanistic course of Languages and Humanities. The document includes a personal framework, presenting the journey and motivations that led to the choice of teaching Physical Education, and an institutional framework, characterising the cooperating school and the resident class. The document is further organised around three areas of intervention. Area I covers the conceptual framework, planning, pedagogical intervention and methodological options, and assessment, conceived as a continuous process encompassing diagnostic, formative and summative moments. Area II reflects the involvement in the organisational and relational dynamics of the school, through the organisation of sports activities and participation in pedagogical management structures. Area III presents a study analysing the influence of the Direct Instruction Model and the Sport Education Model on the motivation of the study group, using the PLOCQ questionnaire, whose results suggested that the Sport Education Model created more favourable conditions for the reduction of more controlled forms of motivation and a slight increase in intrinsic motivation within the specific context of the study group. This report constitutes a document of critical reflection on a year of real pedagogical practice, marked by the confrontation between initial teacher education and the complexity of teaching, and by the beginning of a construction of professional identity committed to the integral development of students.