Challenges imposed to the physical education classes in the pandemic: paths to reframe the teacher’s work

Abstract

BACKGROUND: With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, many challenges arose so that the educational activities could be continued without many losses to the students. However, the lack of mastery of educational technologies showed itself as a barrier to the teachers as well as to the students. 
OBJECTIVE: So, the present text has as aim to reflect how in pandemic times the school Physical Education reframed itself, considering the experiences reported by Physical Education teachers of the public school system. 
METHODS: This study, of qualitative approach, is characterized as a multi-case study, adopted as research instrument a semi-structured interview with two male and two female teachers who work in the public education network, state and municipal, and one in each level (early childhood education, early years of elementary school, final years of elementary school and high school). 
RESULTS: Even with the investigated scenario and its difficulties, the teachers performed their work in the best possible way and, therefore, we identified a kind of unison manifestation of the teachers, both in what is concerned to the positive actions as to the difficulties experienced. This manifestation was organized in categories, specifically six, namely: learning and adapting the content to the classes; support in theoretical-methodological bases in the educational networks; activities with family support; institutional support; what can I move forward? 
CONCLUSION: The persistence and resilience of each one allowed the school Physical Education to be present in the daily school activities of all levels of education, even in an adapted way. We reinforce the responsibility of the researchers of teacher formation institutions to give visibility to the elements that contribute to the maintenance of body practice, of the Physical Education classes in different contexts so these can be accessible and reverberate with quality between teachers and students.