Learning To Fly: um dicionário de bordo de uma professora em devir

Abstract

In this work, through a dialogue with Jorge Larrosa and Karen Rechia (2018), I seek to tell stories, memories, and perceptions of a new teacher during her experience in the Teaching Residency at Colégio de Aplicação João XXIII. The Teaching Residency is an opportunity for newly graduated teachers to experience school reality in its complexity and multiplicity – by teaching classes, attending pedagogical meetings, doing administrative work, and being part of teacher training courses – with the supervision and monitoring of a permanent teacher at the school. Within this process, I list and conceptualize seven words significant to my process of teacher training during my time in the Teaching Residency, emulating the work of Larrosa and Rechia (2018), thus creating a glossary or a dictionary of experiences. I narrate some of my encounters with students, joys, adversities, challenges, methodological proposals, theories, and with my own transformation into a teacher, emphasizing the importance of continued education for teachers.