Formação inicial do professor de matemática com uso de tecnologias da informação e comunicação no contexto da escola pública

This paper intends to analyze which contribution for teachers formative training the participation on extension projects can bring to the bachelors in Mathematics teaching. The research was conducted during the developing of a Project from the Program of Extension - Programa de Extensão UFU/Comunidade (PEIC) in a municipal school located in a country zone from Uberlândia-MG. The research was constituted by a series of activities with students from the ninth year of the Fundamental Education, Middle School. The main focus is the work developed by two bachelors of Mathemactics teaching from the Federal University from Uberlândia who were part of the PEIC team. This present research intends to answer the following question: How the extension project “Information technology and communication on Mathematics problem resolution in country zone schools” has contribited to reinforce and to (re)criate the fomative experiences of students from the Mathematics teaching course who have developed such project? The presente study is from a qualitative nature and has made use of the partaker searching methodology. The presente paper was organized in three chapters. On chapter I evidence is given to theoretical discussion made, having as main references the works of Larrosa, Ponte e Shön. Chapter II brings the description of the three activities that were developed and aplied during the PEIC Project, which are: Problems in the Park, Inaccessible Hight and Lili Game. On chapter III, the data analysis is presented. The data was obtained through instruments of registration such as: camera recording, photografic material, meetings reports, field notes, surveys and semi-structured interviews. The initial hypothesis aim is on the fact that the participation on extention projects during the graduation course can bring rich contribution for the teachers to be, since it’s going to provide the knowledge and chalenge close to the one from the future profession. With the analysis of the obtained results from the colected data, it was possible to conclude that the PEIC has provided the bachelors in Mathematics teching the opportunity of recreate and potenciate their formative experiences. Such opportunity happened in situations that involved, for example, planning makings, development of colective work, softwares usage, different school spaces and the direct interaction with school bureaucracy. Beyond that, it was possible to work with the cocepts of reflection in action in a way to contribute to the professional development of the future Mathematics teachers. Thereby, in our final considerations, is possible to conclude that extension projects performed during the graduation course can bring great contributions to the professional formation of the bachelors in Mathematics teaching, among them we highlight the potentiation of the previous formative experiences and the development of colective work and behavior related to a reflexive teacher.

A formação inicial de professores de matemática em atividades investigativas durante o estágio

A investigação em foco aconteceu no âmbito da formação inicial de professores de Matemática. Houve inserção de licenciandos no contexto da pesquisa. Nesse sentido, conjugaram-se estágio supervisionado e práticas de pesquisa. Os graduandos analisados eram estudantes da disciplina Estágio Supervisionado IV (voltada para o magistério de nível médio) da Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA). Nos encontros de planejamento – durante o semestre letivo anterior, mais especificamente no transcorrer da disciplina Estágio Supervisionado III –, aconteceram discussões acerca da figura do professor pesquisador e a propósito da elaboração de projetos de pesquisa, além de explanações, por especialistas convidados, sobre os seguintes assuntos: (i) tendências em Educação Matemática; (ii) avaliação docente; (iii) didática da Matemática e (iv) projetos de “investigação em aula”. Tais explanações constituíram-se em fontes de auxílio e de motivação para os licenciandos, não em imposições de assuntos a investigar. Eles foram exortados a fazer leituras em periódicos, em livros, em textos disponíveis na Internet etc., com vistas tanto à aquisição de respaldo para a construção de seus projetos quanto ao ganho de subsídios para – no semestre letivo seguinte – as suas intervenções didático-investigativas. Quanto às atividades na escola-laboratório, os estagiários realizaram, em ambiente onde dispuseram de anuência da comunidade escolar, “pesquisas acerca de sua prática docente”. Por sua vez, o autor desta tese, o qual era professor das disciplinas Estágio Supervisionado III e Estágio Supervisionado IV, portanto orientador dos estagiários, analisou as pesquisas realizadas por eles. Mais especificamente, o autor buscou responder [através da análise qualitativa de: (i) diálogos; (ii) relatos orais; (iii) entrevistas semiestruturadas; (iv) observações/percepções; (v) relatórios (escritos) de pesquisa elaborados pelos estagiários; e (vi) respostas dos estagiários a questionários semiabertos] à seguinte pergunta: “que aspectos das práticas de investigação repercutem na constituição da identidade de professores de Matemática em formação inicial?”. Estágio supervisionado, Pesquisa docente & Identidade do (futuro) professor de Matemática denotaram, em uma perspectiva complexa, elementos centrais neste trabalho. O objetivo foi “investigar a constituição da identidade de professores de Matemática em formação inicial na realização de atividades investigativas durante o estágio supervisionado”. Concluiu-se, por ocasião da fase prática deste trabalho doutoral, que “houve repercussão de aspectos das práticas de investigação tanto na constituição da dimensão particular ou individual quanto na constituição da dimensão geral, formal ou conceitual da identidade profissional de cada sujeito/estagiário analisado”.

Social processes of health and physical education teachers’ identity formation: Reproducing and changing culture

This paper examines Initial Teacher Education students’ experiences of participation in health and physical education (HPE) subject department offices and the impact on their understandings and identity formation. Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field, and practice along with Wenger’s communities of practice form the theoretical frame used in the paper. Data were collected using surveys and interviews with student‐teachers following their teaching practicum and analysed using coding and constant comparison. Emergent themes revealed students’ participation in masculine‐dominated sports, gendered body constructions, and repertoires of masculine domination. Findings are discussed in relation to their impact on student‐teachers’ learning, identity formation, and marginalizing practices in the department offices. Implications for teacher education and HPE are explored.

Basic components in the scienctific didactical training of the secondary school mathematics teachers

Secondary mathematics teacher training in Spain is currently the subject of a heated revision debate. The speed of social, cultural, scientific and economic changes have left a hundred years old teacher training model well behind. However, academical inertia and professional interests are impeding a real new training of the mathematics teacher as an autonomous mathematical educator. Teachers of Didactic of Mathematics and the Spanish Associations of mathematics teachers have recently been discussing the issue. Their conclusions are included here.

New GCSE AQA Mathematics: Teacher´s Book Unit 3 Higher.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (AQA) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: fracciones y decimales, ángulos y áreas, trabajando con símbolos, porcentajes y ratios, ecuaciones y fórmulas, propiedades de los polígonos, gráficos, el teorema de Pitágoras, propiedades de los círculos, medidas, trigonometría, vectores, ecuaciones simultáneas, funciones exponenciales. Las respuestas a los ejercicios se encuentran al final del libro.

New GCSE AQA Mathematics: Teacher´s Book Unit 3 Foundation.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (AQA) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: fracciones y decimales, ángulos (ángulos y líneas, ángulos y líneas paralelas, ángulos y triángulos), trabajando con símbolos, porcentajes y ratios, perímetro y área (perímetro y área de un rectángulo, área de paralelogramos y triángulos, circunferencia y área de un círculo), ecuaciones, propiedades de los polígonos, gráficos, fórmulas, área y volumen, medidas, dibujando y midiendo líneas, ángulos y círculos.

Mathematics teachers' ideas about mathematical models : a diverse landscape

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