importância e os desafios da monitoria universitária na formação docente

The educational support programme contributes to the personal and intellectual training of students, awakening potentialities that will impact their professional performance. This work aims to evaluate how educational support programmes helped future teachers to better understand the basic contents of “Chemistry for Biologists" and "Biochemistry", from the perspective of the monitored students and also of the student monitors of the Teaching Degree in Biological Sciences an undergraduate programme of UFTM. For this, an evaluative questionnaire was developed and applied to the undergraduate students who attended the monitoring courses. It was found that, the educational support programme functioned as a space for learning and exchange of knowledge by all parties involved in this process, also allowing the monitor to approach teaching practice.