O Portal do Professor como suporte para as estratégias metodológicas no ensino de genética

Abstract

Topics related to Genetics came to occupy large media space, appearing in magazine covers, newspaper headlines, television newscasts and movie scripts. Students have a certain difficulty in understanding genetic contents because of their complexity and because they cannot associate what the teacher teaches with their daily life. Teaching genetics can become a challenge for biology teachers. The Teacher's Portal is an open-access electronic site that presents various information, among them, proposals of classes for the different discipline and contents, among them biology / genetics. In this context, the guiding question of this work is: Does the Teacher's Portal offer diverse methodological strategies for the teaching of genetics that can help biology teachers in their classes? In this way, the objective is to analyze the teaching methodologies for genetic contents presented in the Portal of the Teacher from suggestions of subjects by the Biology teachers of the state public schools of Itapipoca-CE. This is an exploratory qualitative research. It consisted of a questionnaire that was applied to the teachers of four Itapipoca-CE schools. From the answers obtained, the classes and methodologies proposed in the Teacher's Portal were analyzed for topics most cited by teachers. After the analysis, a class was created with the biotechnology theme, as this was one of the topics cited by the research professors due to its complexity and because it is a subject much debated in the media and in our current society