O Desafio de Ensinar: Comportamento, Motivação e Educação Desportiva numa Turma do 9. º ano de escolaridade, numa escola TEIP

Abstract

This Teaching Practicum Report is part of the Master's Degree in Physical Education Teaching in Basic and Secondary Education (MEEFEBS) and results from the supervised teaching practice carried out at the Pêro Vaz de Caminha School Cluster, in Porto, throughout the 2025/2026 academic year. Integrated in the Priority Educational Intervention Territories Programme (TEIP), this school presents particular socio-educational characteristics that decisively shaped the formative journey described in this document. More than a descriptive record of teaching activities, this report is conceived as an exercise in critical and honest reflection on the challenges, learning experiences and transformations that shaped my identity as a future teacher, supporting Alarcão's (2003) perspective on the importance of the teacher as a reflective practitioner. The pedagogical intervention took place in three distinct contexts: an assigned 9th-grade class, characterised by high levels of indiscipline, limited capacity for cooperative work and low motivation towards Physical Education; a co-taught 6th-grade class, with complex socio-emotional characteristics; and a primary education class, in the 4th year of schooling. This diversity of contexts represented both a challenge and an opportunity, requiring a constant adaptation of pedagogical strategies and methodologies to the real needs of each group. Physical Education assumes, throughout this journey, a role that goes far beyond motor development. It is a space for human formation, where values are built, emotions are worked on and young people are prepared for life (Bento, 1995). The teaching practicum confirmed, beyond any doubt, that teaching is one of the most demanding and, simultaneously, most rewarding professions that exists