The importance of the Internship for initial teacher training from the perspective of undergraduate students in Rural Education

Abstract

The internship has great importance in the initial formation, since it allows the direct contact of the graduates with the school reality, taking this teachers in initial training to experience the teaching and learning process under the teaching experience. Thus, the objective is to report the experience of undergraduate students of Rural Education Degree Course at the Federal University of Catalão (Rural Education) in an internship at EJA, seeking to reflect on the importance of this stage in the initial training of undergraduate students involved. This analyse is based on qualitative research, having as a data collection instruments the field diary and a interview with a school teacher (preceptor). Through data analysis, it was observed that the training of some school teachers was not specific training for the area in which they were working and that the teachers do not have access to continuing education. The observations brought a new perception in relation to the specificities of an EJA, giving the opportunity to learn more about this type of teaching, thus enriching background as future teachers and enabling the elaboration of a Didactic Sequence more contextualized with the reality of the students of the rural school. Thus, it is clear that for a teaching performance that guarantees full and critical learning, it is necessary to know the reality of the students.