On the difficulties of the teaching profession as well as its possibilities

• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães, Ana Maria de Mattos
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Kersch, Dorotea Frank, Sent, Deise Del
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Cenpec (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.cenpec.org.br/cadernos/index.php/cadernos/article/view/95
• topic: Educação; Educational genre project. Literacy. Text genre. Continuing education; Educação; Projeto didático de gênero. Letramento. Gênero textual. Formação continuada

Improving the performance of public school students in reading and writing skills is arising as one of the great challenges in the Brazilian school system. In partnership with the city of Novo Hamburgo-RS, we created a process of cooperative continuing education, in which the researchers’ academic literacy interacts with the social practices of teachers and their students. In the project, we extended the concept of instructional continuance, teaching what we called the Educational Genre Project (PDG, its acronym in Portuguese) as an umbrella term so that, based on community demands or thematic choice, one or more genres could be worked on in a given space of time, always with the intention of relating it to a given social practice. This paper presents an account of a teacher’s experience, from conception to development of her PDG. The results achieved provide an idea of the likelihood of possibly overcoming working difficulties in a class with students who live in at-risk environments, but who also deserve to share social practices that enable their inclusion into different social domains.