Formação do professor de ciências naturais do 9º ano do ensino fundamental nas escolas do município de Cruz das Almas - BA

Abstract

This paper analyzes the formation of the teacher of Natural Sciences of the 9th year of elementary school in public and private schools of Cruz das Almas - BA. The goal of this research is to identify, contextualize and evaluate the influence of training, initial and continuing teacher of Natural Sciences in relation to conceptual contents of Chemistry and Physics, in the 9th year of elementary school, as well as studying the approaches methodological questions about the process of learning and teaching curricula of Natural Sciences. Methodological approach was adopted multiple case study conducted in 10 public schools and 6 schools private schools and used semi- structured questionnaires to collect data. The findings of this research demonstrate that many factors affect the quality of education, including the lack of structure of the schools where the research was carried out with the low wages, long working hours and lack of preparation for the training courses or either initial or continued. Although teachers have initial training and continuing within the area in which they operate, actualize not satisfactorily classroom practice required for the teaching of science in search of effective scientific literacy.