Banca de DEFESA: ALINE DE OLIVEIRA

TEACHERS' STRATEGIES AND DIFFICULTIES IN DISTANCE LABORATORY PRACTICE TEACHING.

Virtual Laboratory. Experimental Practices. Remote Teaching.

In view of the current context of education in Brazil due experience with the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficulty related to the work of the teacher who teaches content that requires experimental practices in high school, the objective of this work is to find out which were the biggest difficulties and which methodologies were applied to these classes in the remote teaching modality. Those involved in this project will be the teachers who teach classes in the area of natural science in full-time schools in the Zona da Mata of the state of Rondônia, specifically teachers who were assigned to the discipline of experimental practices, during the period of remote classes in the years of 2020 and 2021, which is mandatory in the integral education model. The research will initially be developed with a questionnaire to investigate what were the difficulties, alternatives and methodologies used, such as the use of laboratories and/or virtual simulators for the development of the experimental practice online. As the research will be restricted to the methods that were adopted during the pandemic period, and in order to contribute to the reduction of the difficulties encountered, an interactive electronic booklet will be produced that will serve to show readers the adopted methodologies, besides being proposing new didactic tools, with resource suggestions so that the teacher can always be modernizing in their classes. In addition, this booklet will serve for future studies, and it is expected that it will help schools with laboratory lag, also in non-pandemic times. Finally, through the results obtained in this study, it is expected that the interest of teachers and students will be aroused in the use of virtual platforms which allow educational interactions with the computational environment, without losing the focus of knowledge and learning. The chosen theme is of paramount importance and relevance, as it provides viable alternatives that prevent possible content lag, combined with the fact that it arouses greater interest in these subjects in students.