Formação continuada a distância para o professor de Ciências Naturais do Ensino Fundamental : educação em Geologia

As not a subject of the Basic Education, Geology and its contents occur scattered in other disciplines of sciences and humanities of the Elementary School Curriculum. Its understanding is imperative to achieve a critical and planetary point of view. Despite such importance, the geological approach applied in Natural Sciences classes remains decontextualized, fragmented, and far from no mistakes. Due to this, the teacher practice becomes difficult, the global and environmental awareness by the pupils as well. In order to answer the needs related to teaching geology of Natural Science teachers, a collective built continuing teacher training course, with an environmental and interdisciplinary perspective, and focused on geology was suggested. A collaborative approach characterize the methodological procedures of this research. A first semi-structured interview with 15 teachers of Elementary schools was undertaken. After reviewing the answers, the course of this research proposal of geology and teaching strategies were collectively built. A virtual distance education platform was used to offer the course to fifteen teachers, concluded only by nine of them. To evaluate the course, an individual semi-structured interview with each attendant was undertaken at last. The final result were considered satisfactory, once the knowledge on Geology was upgraded within a constructivism approach guiding the course, as well as an improvement on TIC was supported by the virtual platform. Besides, the course offered an opportunity to discuss the pedagogical practice and issues of teaching Science. As a final conclusion, continuing teacher training must be a steady experience to minimize teaching issues, including those of geology.