Ensinar, Avaliar e Aprender: o Papel da Educação Física na vida do aluno

Abstract

This report documents and analyses the Supervised Teaching Practice carried out during the 2023/2024 school year at Escola Básica e Secundária de Pedrouços, part of Agrupamento de Escolas de Pedrouços, in the municipality of Maia, within the Master's degree in Physical Education Teaching in Basic and Secondary Education at the Faculty of Sport of the University of Porto, under the scientific supervision of Mentor Teacher Susana Soares. The whole experience is guided by a single question: what role can, and should, Physical Education play in school life, given a subject whose curricular status has shifted repeatedly over the past decades. The work is organised around three areas of intervention. The first concerns the organisation and management of teaching, including the annual plan, the didactic units, the assessment procedures and the use of three teaching models. The second area covers participation in activities included in the Annual Activity Plan. The third gathers the professional development experiences within the teaching practice group. The reflections produced support the claim that Physical Education fulfils, within the school, a role that goes beyond physical exercise: it teaches with curricular rigour, builds social competences through collective participation and integrates students into the school community. The difficulties identified belong to the same formative process as the results achieved, and reinforce the idea that professional development in Physical Education depends, above all, on a willingness to experiment, review and adjust classroom practice.