Sou professor e agora? Uma análise das primeiras ações na escola

Abstract

The beginning of a career is always a period of learning and impact on the teachers’ professional attitude. In teaching experience we go through a period of transition between the student attitude and the professor attitude, a change that is built in practice. In this research, we conducted semistructured interviews to recent college graduates in Biological Sciences at UFC (Federal University of Ceará), to understand their prospects of first actions as graduate professionals. Huberman describes the life cycle of the teacher; the selected sample used for this study on teachers can be found in the first stage described by the author, the Entry stage. When comparing within this stage the phases of “survival” and “discovery” in the beginning of their career, we can reflect upon their difficulties and expectations. The data obtained from the interviews were categorized according to the research made by Gonçalves, and from that, perceptions about this career beginning were made. In the face of the results, a concern was raised about the necessity of an attention that has to be focused on the aspects that maintains the professors in their career, despite the countless challenges experienced.