Teacher training in times of emergencies

• Autor(a) principal: Porro, Silvia
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34624/id.v15i1.32198

In this article, I make some reflections on the teaching of Natural Sciences today, a time when I consider that we are in a planetary emergency: environmental, health and food. For this, I base myself on the objectives of this teaching according to the different educational levels and the students to whom it is addressed. I emphasize the importance of training professionals and citizens in general capable of take decisions that involve critical thinking based on their scientific-technological knowledge. In addition, I express the need to abandon traditional teaching that is based on: the mere learning of concepts provided by teachers and textbooks, in passive students and in evaluations with closed-ended questions. To achieve change, I believe it is essential to modify initial and continuing teacher training, which must involve interdisciplinary training, knowledge of the Nature of Science and the incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies. I believe that Natural Sciences should be taught based on in-context approaches, call them STS, STSA, STEM, STEAM, use of socio-scientific issues, etc. The important thing is that students actively participate in their learning, which only will be achieved if significant topics for their daily life are presented in the classroom: their family or social environment, the world around them, something that interests or moves them. The concepts to be taught remain the same, but the students and the resources available have changed. We cannot continue teaching as we did years ago.