Teacher Training in the Games: Challenges and Possibilities in the Classroom
Teacher training; Games; Teaching Practice.
Research shows that teachers of Basic Education still find it difficult to use technology as a resource in their teaching practice, due to the lack of infrastructure in schools and little information on the subject in the continuing education that these professionals participate. In this context, the Educational Technology Nucleus, the body responsible for the technological training of the Natal City Council's Education Secretariat, offers courses to remedy its teachers' deficiencies in using educational technologies in daily school life as well as helping them to adapt. facing the challenges posed by their use. Among the courses offered by the Center, there is training in the area of games called Pedagogical Gameterapy, which provides the student with reflection and practice on the possibilities of inserting digital and analog games in a pedagogical way, providing experiences with playing, and then , produce and create games according to your school reality. In order to verify the efficiency obtained by this training, the present work analyzed it, under a qualitative approach, through the participant observation technique, in order to understand the impact obtained in the pedagogical practice of the students. Given the data collected and using the knowledge acquired in the Master in Educational Technologies, as well as the need for teachers to have the security to put into practice the knowledge acquired throughout the process, it was found the need to make adjustments in training, so that it better meet the different situations found within the universe of schools belonging to the public network of the Municipality. It is expected, with the application of these adaptations, to contribute to an improvement in the initial proposal of training in the area of games, allowing the students to fully apply the content learned in the course in their home schools, benefiting their pedagogical practice and consequently. students' learning, as well as can be replicated by other Departments of Education.