Continuing education: a solution proposal for problems in the teaching of Astronomy

TL;DR

This paper reflects on a continuing education course in Astronomy for teachers, highlighting its potential to improve pedagogical practices and interdisciplinary teaching, based on participant experiences and perceptions.

Contribution

It presents an analysis of a specific Astronomy teacher training course and insights into its impact and areas for improvement.

Findings

Demand for astronomy training among teachers

Astronomy teaching fosters innovative pedagogical practices

Recommendations for future astronomy training courses

Abstract

The goal of this paper is have bringing a reflect on the experience of applying a continuing education course in Astronomy Teaching for teachers from two municipal networks, know Laranja da Terra (ES) and Guarapari (ES). Here we are presenting a brief of the course offered by Ifes-Guarapari for these networks as well as analyzes the experience reports, font of collection of data, done by the course participants, which was guided by diagnostic questions that allowed the systematization of the course participants' perceptions in the developed training process. After the systematization and analysis of the texts, the reflection was as follows: a) the existence of a demand for training in the area of astronomical knowledge; b) the potential of Astronomy Teaching as a provider of innovative pedagogical practices in the school context as well as its interdisciplinary potential; and c) notes for improvement in the construction and offer of new training courses in Astronomy for elementary school professionals.