Reverse mentoring: preparing a digital teaching course for teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic

• Autor(a) principal: Médici, Eduardo de Aquino
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Costa, Lídia Duarte, Tarabai, Briana Henriques Machado, Oliveira, Graziella Lage
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Docência do Ensino Superior (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/rdes/article/view/33379
• topic: Mentoria reversa; Ensino no contexto da Covid-19; Instituições de ensino superior; Reverse mentoring; Teaching in the context of Covid-19; Higher education institutions; Mentoría inversa; Enseñar en el contexto de Covid-19; Instituciones de educación superior

The purpose of this paper is to report the experience of preparing the Teacher Training course in Digital Teaching. Due to the adherence to Emergency Remote Education, precipitated by the pandemic of Covid-19, students of the Study Group in Didactics Applied to Medicine Learning proposed to develop the course based on reverse mentoring. After evaluating the teaching demand, a self-instructional course was organized, organized in modules in the Google Classroom. 572 teachers enrolled in the course, who were allocated to classes, the first being composed of 138 teachers. Despite the high demand, the completion rate of the first class was low (3.6%). It is suggested that the short time between the study and the beginning of the didactic activities, the overload of the teacher and greater interest in the functioning of the platforms, despite aspects related to didactics, have reflected in this rate. Reverse mentoring proved to be useful for the acquisition of skills and competences.