A personagem perdida no bosque: o percurso de um estudante estagiário

Abstract

This document reports the first contact with the real teaching practice of a preservice teacher (the character lost in the woods). This document seeks to report the experiences, difficulties, achievements of a preservice teacher. Thus, this report has a personal character, with the preservice teacher himself as the author. During the report, the author uses a metaphor for a trip through the woods, where the different paths found lead to a bridge. This bridge represents a school around greater Porto, which hosted a practicum group, composed of three preservice teachers. Throughout this crossing, the character faced several difficulties and several unforeseen events. Throughout this report, the author describes these difficulties and unforeseen circumstances, and what strategies he tried to use to overcome them. He reports all the experiences and learnings relevant to his growth and development as a competent teacher. It is also presented the deepening of a theme that was the greatest unforeseen that teachers and the whole society came across. This theme is related to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and distance learning, and it is evident that teachers were able to adjust to the new paradigm, despite the various difficulties were the victories and lessons for teaching in general and for their training.