Achievement and personal professional development in physical education students

Abstract

Background: The article presents the initial academic training phase and the personal and professional development perceived by Physical Education students. Objective: to present prospects of professional achievement of potential future teachers from the relationship between initial training and their experiences with the school. Methods: it is a qualitative study at an exploratory-descriptive level, developed with graduates of the last period of Physical Education Degree course of a private institution in the State of Paraná. In the data collection, a questionnaire formulated from the research objectives and treated with content analysis was used. Results: the main results indicate, the desire for personal and professional achievement and continuity in the profession, although explicit thought in opting for another profession. They emerge as demands of the teaching context, attention and improvements in the conditions for the professional exercise, deepening of studies on adversities in the school, greater professional recognition and social valorization of the teachers and increase of opportunities of stable bond in the work. Conclusion: we suggest improvements in the socio-political context of Education, as more investments in initial training, especially in processes of preventive interventions on possible factors inducing teacher malaise, as well as optimization of positive experiences of the teaching profession as a way to potentiate cognitive and affective partner.