A profissão docente sob a ótica do professor

Abstract

This article is the result of a practical activity developed in the class of “Psychology and Education”, which is mandatory for undergraduate degrees at a university located in the state of São Paulo (Brasil). In addition to the observation in the classroom of elementary school and secondary school, it was proposed to carry out an interview with the teachers who were observed in schools. The questions of the interview were about the reasons for the choice of their profession, the main difficulties in teaching, teaching resources and assessment methods they use, and other considerations on the teaching career. The number of interviewees was 33 teachers from public and private schools. The results showed that the reason for the choice of the profession for most teachers was the desire to teach. The difficulties most frequently mentioned by teachers, in day-by-day of school, were indiscipline, the lack of interest of students and devaluation of the career, although most of them maintain the commitment to the profession and consider that they were successful so far.