O estágio supervisionado na formação do docente em ciências biológicas da Universidade Estadual do Maranhão (UEMA), Caxias, MA

Abstract

The internship is a field of knowledge that seeks to provide the construction of a competente and autonomous identity in the mediation of knowledge and in the formation of the teacher as an effective mediator of knowledge. Faced with the challenges and complexity of reality, the profession of the teacher is increasingly claimed to minimize such situations. In this sense, teacher education must occupy a privileged place in university policies, taking into account the importance of this subject. This research has among others the objective of investigating the role of the Supervised Internship I discipline in the teacher education of the graduate student in Biological Sciences at the Center for Higher Studies of Caxias (CESC), State University of Maranhão (UEMA). This research is qualitative in nature, based on a questionnaire applied to students graduating from two classes in the biological sciences course, who completed the Supervised Internship I course in 2019, at the State University of Maranhão, Campus Caxias-MA, the survey included 21 participants. Some reflections were added and particularities were pointed out that are repeated in the words of the participants in order to better characterize the experiences lived by the students. The results obtained with the research demonstrate that the practice of the supervised internship cooperates in a decisive way in the construction of the professional identity of the teachers in training. With the completion of this investigation, readers are expected to reflect on the importance of Supervised Internship in teacher training, really knowing what their role is, which goes beyond meeting academic requirements.