Continuing Training in Non-Formal Space Applied to Teachers to Develop Scientific Skills in Elementary Education

Abstract

Science education involves implementing science skills throughout the entire teaching-learning process. In this sense, the teacher needs to carry out continuous training that allows this to happen. This work demonstrates how teachers from the municipal network of São Vicente (SEDUC-SV) carried out in-service training from 2017 to 2019 accompanying their students in carrying out investigative activities aimed at specifically working on scientific skills in partnership with the Center for Training and Research in Environment (CEPEMA) of ``Universidade de São Paulo`` (USP) located in Cubatão (SP). Subsequently, these activities were carried out with 4th and 6th grade students from 17 municipal schools in São Vicente during their visits to CAP. At each visit, the students, accompanied by their teachers, participated in investigative and diversified activities on curricular subjects of science and geography, contemplating skills such as observing, interpreting, identifying, comparing, analyzing, relating, among others. The impressions of the accompanying teachers were also recorded through questionnaires. For the professors, this was an opportunity to broaden their vision of how to work in a practical way with their students and evaluate in a different way.