Aprendendo Juntos a Ser professor: Possibilidades de Formação Inicial e Continuada no Contexto do Subprojeto Pibid Letras Inglês da Ufpb

Abstract

This research is based on a discussion about initial/continuing teacher education developed within the Institutional Program for Scholarships for Beginning Teachers (PIBID) Letters-English project at Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Assuming that a collaborative approach to the teaching activity is relevant for teacher identity construction, the present research resorts to authors such as Silva and Gomes (2013); Pimenta and Lima (2005/2006); Borges (2015); Gaffuri (2013); Halu, (2011) for theoretical support and it seeks to analyse which aspects of teacher education were developed from the relationship between experienced teachers (supervisors) and teachers in initial education (TIE) within the Pibid Letters-English project at UFPB. It looks into how supervisors represent their duties in the subproject and its aim is to understand the teaching knowledge built by these supervisors and by the TIEs from the co-teaching relationship developed in Pibid. It is a qualitative interpretative research and it takes as data the discourse of two teacher/supervisors involved in the referred program. Data was accessed through the application of a questionnaire and an interview conducted by the researcher with the two teachers/supervisors. Afterwards, the interview was transcribed and analysed. Our analysis has revealed that the relationship between the teacher supervisor and the TIE plays an important role in improving some language teaching capacities (QUEVEDO-CAMARGO, 2015); in the construction of the teacher's identity and in enhancing the learning process and motivation of students at school. Moreover, it was observed a (re) configuration of teacher education practices through the encounter with the other, disrupting the usual meanings of initial and continuing teaching education. Thus, the experience of exchanging knowledge on the teaching activity provided mutual significant development for all teachers – supervisors and TIE - involved in the contexts of the referred project.