TRAINING NEEDS OF TEACHERS OF STATE SCHOOL MEDICAL SCHOOL IN TANGARÁ DA SERRA - MT
In-service Teacher Training; Chemistry teachers; analysis of training needs; High school.
On-the-job training provides educational professionals with the formative moment of improvement and reflection of pedagogical practice, reflecting directly on their professional practice. Thus, the research aimed to identify, analyze and describe the training needs of high school chemistry teachers from the State Schools located in Tangará da Serra-MT, to understand the professional practice of these teachers and expand future studies on the analysis of in-service teacher training needs. Methodologically, we use bibliographic research through literature review and; the survey with the application of the questionnaire via the Survey Monkey data collection and analysis system and whose data were analyzed using basic statistics techniques: frequency and percentage analysis. The research sample consisted of 13 chemistry teachers who work in high school, in a universe of 15 teachers from the state school system. The results suggest that the research subjects are partially satisfied with the “in-service training” offered by the state school system where the main reasons for participating in this training are “keeping up to date”, “improving professional performance”, “Point counting for class assignment” and “my commitment and enthusiasm for lifelong learning”. And, we find that teachers face difficulties that express or indicate formative needs organized into four categories: 1st - Difficulties in the construction of "tests", 2nd - Teamwork, 3rd - Pedagogical development for teaching and 4th - Teacher-student relationship- management team. However, the 3rd Category obtained a higher frequency of response in the following analysis subcategories: “Matching chemical contents with students' daily lives” (75%); “Develop didactic activities based on projects, problems and research” (69.23%); “Production of teaching material” (66.67%); “Develop teaching methods and techniques” (61.54%). In 1st Category: Difficulties in building “tests” for visually impaired students (61.54%) and Difficulties in building “tests” for students with other disabilities such as deafness and Global Developmental Disorders with (46.15%) ) Give me an answer; hearing impaired (41.67%); with intellectual disabilities (41.67%) and for students with learning disabilities (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysortography, etc.) with (38.46%) answers. Regarding the content that they consider most relevant to in-service training because it presents greater complexity for teaching in the first year of high school: “Chemical calculations: Stoichiometry” (61.54%). For the second year of high school: “Electrochemistry and electrolysis” (76.92%). Already in the third year of high school: "Organic reactions" and "Isomeria cis-trans or geometric" with (53.85%) ". Thus, we can verify that the subcategories describe teacher training needs that require formative intervention, in order to solve or minimize the problems faced by the research participants.