O uso do blog aliado ao ensino de ciências para a formação dos professores dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The teaching of science is incipient in the early years, and it is barely explored and worked in the school context due to the lag in teacher training directed to this area of education. A strong demand for the continued education of teachers emerges from this problem. In this context, the educational blog may become an important tool for the continued education of teachers regarding the teaching of science. Thus, the aim of this work was to present the contributions that the educational blog may offer to courses of continued education of teachers and the implementation of science education in the early years of elementary school. Regarding the methodology, we opted for the quantitative and qualitative methodological approach with exploratory nature. The research involved four different stages, in which: at first, a survey of data, by means of questionnaire, occurred with the participation of 25 students, who are studying in the 4thyear of elementary school. In the second stage, we applied a questionnaire to 50 teachers of municipal schools seeking to know the needs and difficulties that these professionals have to mediate the knowledge in the area of Science. On the third stage, facing the investigations conducted with students and teachers, an educational blog was created and a course of continued education articulated with this technological resource was proposed. The data that emerged from the first and second stages of the research were useful as guidance for the preparation of the proposal of an educational blog for the continued education of teachers. The fourth stagecame in handy to verify the effectiveness of the educational blog regarding the teachers who attended the course for continued education in science, in which the proposed training tool was used. The developed product was a manual of guidelines for the creation of a blog, which enables teachers and other interested parties to obtain information to create a blog according to the need. After the approval of teachers, the main results indicate that the use of the educational blog as a resource allied with the continuous training of teachers, contributed to greater effectiveness and greater improvement of teachers.