An overview on the preparation of the english teachers at our public schools

Abstract

This research will help us to have an overview on the preparation of the professionals of Teaching English as a Second Language at our public schools and to show how one of the preceptors, selected in the Pedagogic Residence, a research program from CAPES/UFC was prepared to be a teacher, in comparison to others in the public network. We will look for the answers to these simple questions: What is the process of academic training of the English Language Teachers? What is the percentage of English Teachersgraduated at the public schools? How thispreceptor of the Pedagogic Residence was prepared? How many years did she study? Where? This research will lead with the book ‘Prerequisites for Effective Teaching, Qualities of Effective Teachers’, written by Stronge, James H. to develop the main defense of the idea of working harder to prepare an English Teacher, especially when we think about academic training. To enrich our research we will see the answers of twenty-seven teachers in a questionnaire in the ‘Google docs applicative’. The preceptor of the Pedagogic Residence, who teaches English at a public school in the city of Eusébio, in the metropolitan region of Fortaleza, Ceará, answered specific questions. Do we need to find out who are the English Teachers in the public network? How are they being prepared? The main purpose of this research is begin to answer these questions.