Importância do Programa de Residência Pedagógica na formação de professores

Abstract

Teacher training is a key issue when we seek quality education. It goes far beyond sporadic meetings, which help teachers in their annual planning. Teacher training, when well done, it helps teachers to have better methodologies in the classroom and to be able to make a difference within education. Public policies aimed at education are a way of guaranteeing that what is prescribed in the law, “Access to education is a right for all”, becomes possible for the entire population of the country and also bring improvements to teaching with the creation of Pedagogical Programs. Among several Pedagogical Programs, this paper specifically talks about the Pedagogical Residency program. Therefore, the main goal of this work is to analyze the importance of the Pedagogical Residency program in the initial training of Science and Biology teachers. To this end, questionnaires were applied to students of the Degree in Biological Sciences at the State University of Paraíba who participated in the Pedagogical Residence Program between the years 2018 and 2020. As a data collection instrument, online questionnaires were applied through the Google platform Forms. Residents were asked about: the contribution of training courses to teaching practice; the didactic strategies used; the scientific production they obtained; the most representative activity within the Program and the activity with which the students most identified. According to the results, it was possible to reiterate how rich the Pedagogical Residency program is and how essential it is for any Degree student who wishes to pursue teaching, since it is a unique experience of immersion in a classroom.