The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to compare the effects of literature instruction using traditional methods to literature instruction using Reading Apprenticeship (RA) to determine if outcomes of attitude and achievement of students enrolled in World Literature courses are changed. Participants included 104 students from 1 junior college in a southeastern state. Of these 104 students, 68 were taught using a traditional method of instruction, and 36 were taught using the RA method of instruction. Students were administered the Rhody Secondary Reading Attitude Survey to determine attitude scores at the beginning of the semester and attitude scores at the end of the semester. In addition, the Accuplacer-Reading Comprehension Test was administered to assess students‘ reading achievement at both the beginning of the semester and at the end of the semester. To analyze the data, a repeated-measures MANOVA was used to determine if statistically significant differences were present in students‘ attitudes and achievement scores based on instruction type. Also, the repeated measures MANOVA was used to determine if there was an interaction between attitude and achievement scores. After analyzing the data that was collected, the results indicated a statistically significant difference between the attitude scores of students taught literature using traditional instruction and students taught literature using RA instruction. The attitudes of students who were taught World Literature through traditional instructional methods experienced little change, and the attitudes of students who were taught World Literature using the RA method significantly increased. The results of the achievement tests and the interaction were not statistically significant.

Neste trabalho investigamos a base de conhecimentos para o ensino e o conhecimento pedagógico do conteúdo de um professor do ensino superior que se destacou sucessivamente nas avaliações institucionais aplicadas aos estudantes de uma Universidade Paulistana para aferir a qualidade e o desempenho de seus professores. Buscamos por meio de narrativas e de análises de documentos reconhecer os conhecimentos mobilizados e as peculiaridades da abordagem deste professor em sua prática docente. Esta pesquisa caracteriza-se como um estudo de caso único. Os dados utilizados envolvem todas as atividades e avaliações produzidas pelo professor para uma disciplina de bioquímica, o planejamento de ensino, a observação das aulas e o mapeamento de suas crenças didáticas. A coleta dos dados foi realizada a partir de observações não participantes das aulas, de entrevistas semiestruturadas registradas em áudio e vídeo e questionários. Os dados foram analisados através da Análise Textual Discursiva, pela qual utilizamos como categorias e subcategorias de análise as propostas no modelo de Grossman para identificar e sistematizar a base de conhecimentos para o ensino e o conhecimento pedagógico do conteúdo do professor. Na pesquisa, por meio da análise dos dados reconhecemos quatro pilares centrais que sustentam a atividade de ensino deste professor: (i) Contexto institucional; (ii) Base de conhecimentos; (iii) Reflexão sobre a prática e (iv) Dimensão pessoal. A base de conhecimentos deste professor para o ensino possui forte influência de sua trajetória profissional, particularmente de seu ingresso na docência. Seus conhecimentos foram construídos e ampliados, predominantemente, por meio de sua experiência em sala de aula e por reflexões estimuladas por atividades paralelas à docência. O contexto institucional ofereceu-lhe as condições de trabalho e a infraestrutura que viabiliza e favorece sua atuação e seu desenvolvimento profissional. Por fim, destacamos uma dimensão pessoal, pela qual reconhecemos um profundo interesse deste professor pela aprendizagem efetiva de seus alunos, sua capacidade de gestão da sala de aula e sua sensibilidade para reconhecer e utilizar as necessidades e os interesses dos alunos no processo de ensino. Este professor demonstra a competência de gerir as relações afetivas na sala de aula construindo espaços para participação direta do aluno na gestão das atividades e para sua atuação durante as aulas, construindo assim um ambiente afetivamente favorável à aprendizagem e à interação na sala de aula. / This research aimed to investigate the knowledge base for teaching in Higher Education and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of an University Professor who has successively achieved outstanding results in institutional evaluations applied to students, aimed at assessing quality and performance.This research has been carried out as a single case study and data were collected in a Public Brazilian University, in the city of São Paulo. They involved all activities and assessment produced by a Biochemistry professor, such as: educational plan; lesson observation and the mapping of his teaching beliefs.The data were collected through narratives and documentation reviews, in order to recognize the mobilized knowledge and the peculiarities of his approach in teaching practices. It was also conducted from non-participant observations in lessons; semi-structured interviews, which were recorded in audio and videos, and questionnaires; the data were, then, further analyzed through Discursive Textual Analysis, in which the proposals of the Grossman\'s Model of Teacher Knowledge as categories and subcategories of analysis were used to identify and systematize the knowledge base for teaching and the professor\'s PCK. Through such analysis we have identified four central pillars which support his teaching activity: i. Institutional context; ii. knowledge base; iii. Reflection upon practice; and iv. personal dimension. His knowledge base has had a strong influence in his professional career, particularly as of joining teaching. It was predominantly built and expanded through his experience in the classroom and stimulated reflection upon activities developed parallel to teaching. The institutional context offered him work conditions and infrastructure which facilitates and promotes his practice and professional development. Finally, we highlight a personal dimension, in which we recognize a profound interest in his students\' effective learning, his classroom management skills and awareness in recognizing and using interests and needs of students in favor of the learning process.This professor demonstrated competence to manage emotional relationships in the classroom, creating space for direct students\' participation as well as the management of their own learning process, building, therefore, an emotionally favorable environment for learning and interaction in the classroom.

A literatura aponta modelos diferentes sobre a base de conhecimentos para o ensino que um professor deve dominar. Em decorrência dessas alternativas há também uma ausência de definições sobre o corpo de conhecimentos que necessite ser trabalhado nos cursos de formação de professores bem como avaliado nos concursos públicos de seleção de professores. O objetivo deste estudo foi delinear qual a base de conhecimentos para o ensino a legislação brasileira e os concursos públicos de professores estão priorizando. O foco foram os professores de Química para o Ensino Médio. O presente estudo traz um levantamento qualitativo e quantitativo dos conhecimentos avaliados nesses concursos, assim como a análise das políticas públicas vigentes na época desses processos seletivos. A análise teve como referencial teórico a base de conhecimentos de professores. O mapeamento dos conhecimentos base que um professor de Química deve possuir, segundo a legislação e os concursos públicos analisados, revela um professor que deve dominar o conteúdo específico de química, ter conhecimento das teorias pedagógicas, conseguir interpretar textos, conhecer a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases de 1996, saber usar um computador e ter conhecimentos de matemática básica, perfil este muito distante do que a literatura de conhecimentos de professores apresenta. A julgar pelos editais e pelas provas de concursos públicos, bem como pelos documentos de políticas públicas, nossos futuros professores basicamente precisam saber química mas não precisam saber lecionar química. Pelos documentos analisados, não há uma especificidade de conhecimentos que faça distinção entre a profissão professor de química e um químico. Assim, a contribuição que esses documentos analisados oferecem é um acirramento da desvalorização da profissão professor, quando na verdade deveriam atuar na direção oposta / The literature points different models about the knowledge base for teaching that a teacher should master. As a result of these alternatives there is also a lack of definitions about the body of knowledge that needs to be worked on in teacher training courses as well as evaluated in public teacher selection exams. The purpose of this study was to outline the knowledge base for teaching that Brazilian legislation and the public exams for selecting teachers are prioritizing. Our focus was the Chemistry Teachers for High School. The present study brings a qualitative and quantitative survey of the knowledge evaluated in these exams, as well as the analysis of the current public legislation at the time of these chemistry teachers selection exams. Our analysis was based on the knowledge base for teaching. The mapping of the knowledge base that a chemistry teacher must possess according to the legislation and public selection exams analyzed reveals a teacher who must know the specific content of chemistry, have knowledge of pedagogical theories, be able to interpret texts, know the Law of Education Guidelines and Bases of 1996, to know how to use a computer, this profile is very far from what the literature of teacher knowledge presents. Judging from the public exams, as well as from public policy documents, our future teachers basically need to know chemistry but do not need to know how to teach chemistry. From the documents analyzed, there is no specificity of knowledge that distinguishes between the chemistry teacher and a chemist. Thus, the contribution that these analyzed documents offer is a devaluation of the teacher profession, when in fact they should act in the opposite direction.

This self-study examined the learning that emerged from a change in teaching assignment coupled with self-initiated, teacher-led professional development in order to understand a high school science teacher's development as a teacher. The two participants in the study were the teacher/researcher, an experienced high school biology teacher who was taking up a new assignment teaching biotechnology, an advanced science course; and a first-year teacher assigned to teach biotechnology, who served as collaborator in the professional development and critical friend in the study. In order to uncover the teacher/researcher's learning and thinking, self-study of teaching practice methodology most clearly met the demands of the study. Data emerged from three research conversations and included transcripts of the conversations, artifacts from the participants' practices, notes from meetings, and memos. Data were analyzed using constant comparative methods and the understandings generated are grounded in the data. The study reveals shifts in teacher identity as the expert teacher takes up novice roles, the challenges encountered when teacher knowledge is insufficient for the teaching task, and the experienced teacher's need to return to a place of expertise when faced with a new teaching context. The study finds that (a) teacher identity shifts and develops in new teaching contexts, and teaching expertise facilitates expert identity development in such contexts; (b) expert teacher knowledge mediates novice-ness when experiencing new teaching contexts such as new teaching assignments; and (c) teacher-led professional development is a viable model for professional development experiences and can lead to increased teacher knowledge. The author suggests that (a) teachers are capable of determining what they need to learn and how they might best learn it in a professional development setting; (b) teachers' specific contexts should be honored when designing professional development, which should be practice-centered, and special attention should be given to developing specific subject matter knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge, and science knowledge for teaching; and (c) capable others should be included in collaborative professional development teams.

Neste trabalho investigamos a base de conhecimentos para o ensino e o conhecimento pedagógico do conteúdo de um professor do ensino superior que se destacou sucessivamente nas avaliações institucionais aplicadas aos estudantes de uma Universidade Paulistana para aferir a qualidade e o desempenho de seus professores. Buscamos por meio de narrativas e de análises de documentos reconhecer os conhecimentos mobilizados e as peculiaridades da abordagem deste professor em sua prática docente. Esta pesquisa caracteriza-se como um estudo de caso único. Os dados utilizados envolvem todas as atividades e avaliações produzidas pelo professor para uma disciplina de bioquímica, o planejamento de ensino, a observação das aulas e o mapeamento de suas crenças didáticas. A coleta dos dados foi realizada a partir de observações não participantes das aulas, de entrevistas semiestruturadas registradas em áudio e vídeo e questionários. Os dados foram analisados através da Análise Textual Discursiva, pela qual utilizamos como categorias e subcategorias de análise as propostas no modelo de Grossman para identificar e sistematizar a base de conhecimentos para o ensino e o conhecimento pedagógico do conteúdo do professor. Na pesquisa, por meio da análise dos dados reconhecemos quatro pilares centrais que sustentam a atividade de ensino deste professor: (i) Contexto institucional; (ii) Base de conhecimentos; (iii) Reflexão sobre a prática e (iv) Dimensão pessoal. A base de conhecimentos deste professor para o ensino possui forte influência de sua trajetória profissional, particularmente de seu ingresso na docência. Seus conhecimentos foram construídos e ampliados, predominantemente, por meio de sua experiência em sala de aula e por reflexões estimuladas por atividades paralelas à docência. O contexto institucional ofereceu-lhe as condições de trabalho e a infraestrutura que viabiliza e favorece sua atuação e seu desenvolvimento profissional. Por fim, destacamos uma dimensão pessoal, pela qual reconhecemos um profundo interesse deste professor pela aprendizagem efetiva de seus alunos, sua capacidade de gestão da sala de aula e sua sensibilidade para reconhecer e utilizar as necessidades e os interesses dos alunos no processo de ensino. Este professor demonstra a competência de gerir as relações afetivas na sala de aula construindo espaços para participação direta do aluno na gestão das atividades e para sua atuação durante as aulas, construindo assim um ambiente afetivamente favorável à aprendizagem e à interação na sala de aula. / This research aimed to investigate the knowledge base for teaching in Higher Education and Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of an University Professor who has successively achieved outstanding results in institutional evaluations applied to students, aimed at assessing quality and performance.This research has been carried out as a single case study and data were collected in a Public Brazilian University, in the city of São Paulo. They involved all activities and assessment produced by a Biochemistry professor, such as: educational plan; lesson observation and the mapping of his teaching beliefs.The data were collected through narratives and documentation reviews, in order to recognize the mobilized knowledge and the peculiarities of his approach in teaching practices. It was also conducted from non-participant observations in lessons; semi-structured interviews, which were recorded in audio and videos, and questionnaires; the data were, then, further analyzed through Discursive Textual Analysis, in which the proposals of the Grossman\'s Model of Teacher Knowledge as categories and subcategories of analysis were used to identify and systematize the knowledge base for teaching and the professor\'s PCK. Through such analysis we have identified four central pillars which support his teaching activity: i. Institutional context; ii. knowledge base; iii. Reflection upon practice; and iv. personal dimension. His knowledge base has had a strong influence in his professional career, particularly as of joining teaching. It was predominantly built and expanded through his experience in the classroom and stimulated reflection upon activities developed parallel to teaching. The institutional context offered him work conditions and infrastructure which facilitates and promotes his practice and professional development. Finally, we highlight a personal dimension, in which we recognize a profound interest in his students\' effective learning, his classroom management skills and awareness in recognizing and using interests and needs of students in favor of the learning process.This professor demonstrated competence to manage emotional relationships in the classroom, creating space for direct students\' participation as well as the management of their own learning process, building, therefore, an emotionally favorable environment for learning and interaction in the classroom.

A literatura aponta modelos diferentes sobre a base de conhecimentos para o ensino que um professor deve dominar. Em decorrência dessas alternativas há também uma ausência de definições sobre o corpo de conhecimentos que necessite ser trabalhado nos cursos de formação de professores bem como avaliado nos concursos públicos de seleção de professores. O objetivo deste estudo foi delinear qual a base de conhecimentos para o ensino a legislação brasileira e os concursos públicos de professores estão priorizando. O foco foram os professores de Química para o Ensino Médio. O presente estudo traz um levantamento qualitativo e quantitativo dos conhecimentos avaliados nesses concursos, assim como a análise das políticas públicas vigentes na época desses processos seletivos. A análise teve como referencial teórico a base de conhecimentos de professores. O mapeamento dos conhecimentos base que um professor de Química deve possuir, segundo a legislação e os concursos públicos analisados, revela um professor que deve dominar o conteúdo específico de química, ter conhecimento das teorias pedagógicas, conseguir interpretar textos, conhecer a Lei de Diretrizes e Bases de 1996, saber usar um computador e ter conhecimentos de matemática básica, perfil este muito distante do que a literatura de conhecimentos de professores apresenta. A julgar pelos editais e pelas provas de concursos públicos, bem como pelos documentos de políticas públicas, nossos futuros professores basicamente precisam saber química mas não precisam saber lecionar química. Pelos documentos analisados, não há uma especificidade de conhecimentos que faça distinção entre a profissão professor de química e um químico. Assim, a contribuição que esses documentos analisados oferecem é um acirramento da desvalorização da profissão professor, quando na verdade deveriam atuar na direção oposta / The literature points different models about the knowledge base for teaching that a teacher should master. As a result of these alternatives there is also a lack of definitions about the body of knowledge that needs to be worked on in teacher training courses as well as evaluated in public teacher selection exams. The purpose of this study was to outline the knowledge base for teaching that Brazilian legislation and the public exams for selecting teachers are prioritizing. Our focus was the Chemistry Teachers for High School. The present study brings a qualitative and quantitative survey of the knowledge evaluated in these exams, as well as the analysis of the current public legislation at the time of these chemistry teachers selection exams. Our analysis was based on the knowledge base for teaching. The mapping of the knowledge base that a chemistry teacher must possess according to the legislation and public selection exams analyzed reveals a teacher who must know the specific content of chemistry, have knowledge of pedagogical theories, be able to interpret texts, know the Law of Education Guidelines and Bases of 1996, to know how to use a computer, this profile is very far from what the literature of teacher knowledge presents. Judging from the public exams, as well as from public policy documents, our future teachers basically need to know chemistry but do not need to know how to teach chemistry. From the documents analyzed, there is no specificity of knowledge that distinguishes between the chemistry teacher and a chemist. Thus, the contribution that these analyzed documents offer is a devaluation of the teacher profession, when in fact they should act in the opposite direction.

Teacher stories were once relegated to informal gatherings but more recently this aspect of teacher development is being carefully studied in more formalized settings because it is believed to be an important part of teacher development. New ways are being sought to use various aspects of storytelling to help pre-service teachers develop important teaching skills through reflection on experience, dialogue journals, case studies and autobiography. Despite these efforts at the university level, it is especially difficult for pre-service teachers to integrate and apply theories from their methods courses to actual classroom practice. Less effort has been focused on storytelling processes that may occur outside these formal approaches. This study, therefore, looked at how pre-service teachers used stories told in an informal setting to process aspects of learning to teach. This study revealed that pre-service teachers engage in story telling for reasons and in ways that are different from teacher educator intents. Using interviews and private dialogues, patterns of when, how and why six pre-service teachers used oral stories emerged that illuminate challenges to using personal and appropriated stories in coursework. The findings of this study include how oral storytelling is used by pre-service teachers to process emotion and demonstrate specific identities and personal characteristics.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-01-23T11:30:24Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Edson Rodrigues da Silva.pdf: 3496477 bytes, checksum: 345c415e59b188dddb4a253bf2dffd17 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-01-23T11:30:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Edson Rodrigues da Silva.pdf: 3496477 bytes, checksum: 345c415e59b188dddb4a253bf2dffd17 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-11-17 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present research aims to build a knowledge base for the teaching of rate of change in Basic Education. For this, and in order to guide our research, we have established the following research question: What knowledge base is required for the teaching of rate of change in Basic Education? To answer this question, we used a bibliographical study as a methodological contribution, in which the sources of investigation consisted of researches that deal with the processes of teaching and learning of the rate of change in Basic Education, of the official documents that guide and organize the teaching of Mathematics in Brazil and in most Brazilian states, of the didactic materials used in different periods in Basic Education and scientific articles. The theoretical framework was based on the Knowledge Base Theory for Teaching, specifically in the conceptions of Shulman, Mishra and Koehler, Lima and Silva and Ball, Thames and Phelps and in the Anthropological Theory of Didactics of Chevallard. These theories helped us to compose a scenario that evidences the know that, when studied, conditions the construction of the necessary knowledge for the teaching of rate of change in Basic Education. There are four categories of teaching knowledge of fundamental and for the teaching of rate of change in Basic Education mediated by technologies: content knowledge, didactic knowledge, technological knowledge and pedagogical knowledge, in which their different interactions meet the conception of knowledge as a network of meanings and that, for us, constitute a knowledge base for the teaching of rate of change in this level of schooling. The construction of an Epistemological Model of Reference for the teaching of rate of change in Basic Education evidenced a Mathematical Organization that includes the know that, when studied, condition the construction of content knowledge for this teaching. The didactic knowledge for the teaching of rate of change includes the range of knowledge concerning the Theory of Didactical Situations, the Theory of Registers of Semiotic Representation, the Theory of Conceptual Fields, the Anthropological Theory of the Didactics, Didactic Engineering, the notion of Didactic Contract And the notion of Obstacle. The technological knowledge for the teaching of rate of change comprises the knowledge about the interface, functionality and characteristics of dynamic mathematical software that can be used in favor of the teaching and learning of this notion. The pedagogical knowledge for rate of change teaching comprises the range of knowledge that the teacher needs to mobilize to prepare, structure and assess tasks, to motivate and support student autonomy, to organize the different materials available, to manage the classroom, to deal with subjectivity and heterogeneity in the classroom, with the cognitive time of each student, with diverse groups, etc / A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo construir uma base de conhecimentos para o ensino de taxa de variação na Educação Básica. Para isso, e de modo a guiar nossa investigação, estabelecemos a seguinte questão de pesquisa: Qual base de conhecimentos é necessária para o ensino de taxa de variação na Educação Básica? Para responder essa questão recorremos a um estudo bibliográfico como aporte metodológico, em que as fontes de investigação constituíram-se de pesquisas que versam a respeito dos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem de taxa de variação na Educação Básica, dos documentos oficiais que direcionam e organizam o ensino de Matemática no Brasil e na maioria dos estados brasileiros, de materiais didáticos utilizados em diferentes períodos na Educação Básica e de artigos científicos. O referencial teórico baseou-se na Teoria da Base de Conhecimentos para o Ensino, especificamente nas concepções de Shulman, Mishra e Koehler, Lima e Silva e Ball, Thames e Phelps e na Teoria Antropológica do Didático de Chevallard. Essas teorias nos auxiliaram a compor um cenário que evidenciasse os saberes que, quando estudados, condicionam a construção dos conhecimentos necessários para o ensino de taxa de variação na Educação Básica. São quatro categorias de conhecimentos docentes fundamentais e necessárias para o ensino de taxa de variação na Educação Básica mediado por tecnologias: conhecimento do conteúdo, conhecimento didático, conhecimento tecnológico e conhecimento pedagógico, em que suas diferentes interações vão ao encontro da concepção de conhecimento como uma rede de significados e que, para nós, constituem uma base de conhecimentos para o ensino de taxa de variação nesse nível de escolaridade. A construção de um Modelo Epistemológico de Referência para o ensino de taxa de variação na Educação Básica evidenciou uma Organização Matemática que compreende os saberes que, quando estudados, condicionam a construção dos conhecimentos do conteúdo para este ensino. Os conhecimentos didáticos para o ensino de taxa de variação compreendem a gama de conhecimentos referentes a Teoria das Situações Didáticas, a Teoria de Registros de Representação Semiótica, a Teoria dos Campos Conceituais, a Teoria Antropológica do Didático, a Engenharia Didática, a noção de Contrato Didático e a noção de Obstáculo. O conhecimento tecnológico para o ensino de taxa de variação compreende os conhecimentos acerca da interface, funcionalidade e características de softwares dinâmicos de Matemática que podem ser usados em favor dos processos de ensino e de aprendizagem dessa noção. O conhecimento pedagógico para o ensino de taxa de variação compreende a gama de conhecimentos que o professor precisa mobilizar para preparar, estruturar e avaliar tarefas, motivar e apoiar a autonomia dos estudantes, organizar os diferentes materiais disponíveis, gerenciar a sala de aula, lidar com a subjetividade e a heterogeneidade em sala de aula, com o tempo cognitivo de cada aluno, com grupos diversificados, etc

Submitted by Izabel Franco (izabel-franco@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-11T13:09:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseEAPL.pdf: 2910502 bytes, checksum: 2202d96e49ad03527d04e6cee64646dd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marina Freitas (marinapf@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-21T12:08:26Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseEAPL.pdf: 2910502 bytes, checksum: 2202d96e49ad03527d04e6cee64646dd (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Marina Freitas (marinapf@ufscar.br) on 2016-10-21T12:08:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseEAPL.pdf: 2910502 bytes, checksum: 2202d96e49ad03527d04e6cee64646dd (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-21T12:08:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TeseEAPL.pdf: 2910502 bytes, checksum: 2202d96e49ad03527d04e6cee64646dd (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-06-30 / Não recebi financiamento / This research aimed to investigate the construction of the repertoire of knowledge for the initial teacher education degree in Mathematics from the perspective of mathematics teachers beginning their careers. Thus, the focus of the investigation was the initial training of mathematics teachers, and the necessary milestones for the establishment of a teaching knowledge base for mathematics teachers professional and personal lives. As a theoretical framework, we based our study on authors who do research in teacher education, initial teacher training and the beginning of the teaching career in the area of Education as well as in Mathematics-specific Education. As for methodology, our research has a qualitative approach, with the participation of five mathematics teachers who are beginning their careers in public schools in Ji-Paraná, Rondônia State, Brazil. The teachers are graduates from the Federal University of Rondônia, Ji-Paraná Campus. In the field research, we used questionnaires and semi-structured interviews as strategies for obtaining data. The interpretation and analysis of data occurred through three thematic axes entitled: Knowledge built for teaching during initial teacher training, recognized by beginner mathematics teachers; Gaps in teacher education identified by the beginner mathematics teachers regarding construction of a knowledge base for teaching; Learning to teach and the knowledge of how to teach on the perspective of beginner mathematics teachers. As for the knowledge necessary for teaching, we chose Shulman’s interpretative and analytical categorization in delimiting the discussions on specific content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and general pedagogical knowledge that comprise what the author calls knowledge base for teaching. In summary, from the results obtained, we can stress that beginner mathematics teachers recognize and highlight the contribution of the initial teacher education degree in mathematics course in building knowledge that integrates the knowledge of the specific content, pedagogical content and general teaching content. Teachers also revealed a variety of gaps in the initial teacher education provided to them, highlighting the difficulties faced by them in their early career practices owing to these gaps, and the limitations and inadequacies of continuing education. They showed to have the understanding that learning to teach is an ongoing process and therefore are receptive to the idea that they are part of this learning process. Among the areas recognized as contributing to this training process the initial teacher training, general education and professional experience were highlighted as of importance. Thus, although we consider the knowledge base for teaching is not static or immutable, and therefore is the result of a formative context, and considering the randomness and the limitations of continuing education as well as beginner teacher working conditions, we defend in this work the thesis that initial teacher education training is the institutional space that meets specific conditions for providing a wide repertoire of knowledge, in order to ensure training and professional milestones for the establishment and maintenance of a teaching knowledge base that may be expanded throughout the teaching career in a solid way that is consistent with today’s teaching profession requirements. / Essa pesquisa teve como objetivo principal investigar sobre a construção do repertório de conhecimentos para o ensino no curso de Licenciatura em Matemática na perspectiva de professores de matemática em início de carreira. Sendo assim, o foco da investigação foi a formação inicial do professor de matemática, considerada como espaço de construção de marcos de referência e de sustentação na constituição de uma base de conhecimento para o ensino durante a trajetória de vida e profissional do professor. Como aportes teóricos, buscouse fundamentar o estudo em autores que pesquisam sobre a formação de professores, a formação inicial e o início da carreira docente, tanto da área da Educação quanto do campo da Educação Matemática. Metodologicamente a pesquisa é de abordagem qualitativa, tendo participado do estudo cinco professores de matemática em início de carreira, atuantes em escolas públicas de Ji-Paraná/RO. Os professores são egressos da Universidade Federal de Rondônia, Campus de Ji-Paraná. Na pesquisa de campo, recorreu-se ao questionário e à entrevista semi-estruturada como estratégias para produção de dados. A interpretação e análise dos dados ocorreu por meio de três eixos temáticos, intitulados de: conhecimentos construídos para o ensino na formação inicial, reconhecidos por professores de matemática iniciantes; lacunas da formação inicial identificadas pelos professores de matemática em início de carreira na construção dos conhecimentos para o ensino; e aprendendo a ensinar e os conhecimentos de como ensinar na perspectiva dos professores de matemática em início de carreira. Como conhecimentos necessários ao ensino, optou-se, no fazer interpretativo e analítico, em delimitar as discussões quanto ao conhecimento do conteúdo específico, conhecimento pedagógico do conteúdo e o conhecimento pedagógico geral, categorizados por Shulman e que integram, dentre outros conhecimentos, o que o autor denomina de base de conhecimento para o ensino. Em síntese, dos resultados obtidos, destaca-se que os professores de matemática em início de carreira reconhecem e evidenciam a contribuição do curso de Licenciatura em Matemática na construção de alguns conhecimentos que integram os conhecimentos do conteúdo específico, pedagógico do conteúdo e pedagógico geral. Os professores também revelaram uma variedade de lacunas decorrentes da formação oportunizada no curso de graduação, destacando dificuldades que enfrentaram no início da carreira em razão destas lacunas, e as limitações e inadequações da formação continuada. Evidenciaram ter a compreensão de que aprender a ensinar é um processo contínuo e que portanto eles se mostram receptíveis à ideia de que estão inseridos nesse processo de aprendizagem, sendo que, dentre os espaços explicitados como contributivos nesse processo de formação, foram destacadas a formação inicial, a formação escolar e a experiência profissional. Assim, embora se considere a impossibilidade de que a base de conhecimento para o ensino seja fixa e imutável, e que portanto seja fruto de apenas um contexto formativo, e considerando a aleatoriedade e as limitações da formação continuada e das condições de trabalho do professor iniciante, defende-se nessa pesquisa a tese de que a formação inicial é o espaço institucional que reúne condições específicas para oportunizar um repertório amplo de conhecimentos, de modo a se garantir marcos referenciais formativos e profissionais para a constituição e sustentação de uma base de conhecimento para o ensino a ser expandida ao longo da carreira docente, de forma sólida e coerente com as exigências da profissão de professor na atualidade.

This study was designed with two goals in mind. The first goal was to describe the formal and practical knowledge of intensive reading intervention teachers related to beginning reading instruction with at-risk first graders. A second goal was to understand any potential relationships between intensive reading teachers’ practical knowledge and formal knowledge. These two goals framed the study’s three research questions. To answer these three questions, the study was conducted in two phases. Phase one included 32 participants, all of whom worked in the role of a K-2 intensive reading intervention teacher. Each of these 32 participants completed a background questionnaire and a paper/pencil Teacher Knowledge Assessment (TKA). The TKA measured participants’ formal knowledge of beginning reading concepts. Participants’ scores on the TKA were then rank-ordered from lowest to highest to help guide the selection of phase two participants. Eight teachers in all participated in phase two of the study dedicated to the study of teachers’ practical knowledge of reading. Participants’ practical knowledge of reading was explored through three activities including a semi-structured interview, a concept-mapping activity and a videotaped reading lesson. Data analysis revealed several important findings. Intensive reading intervention teachers in this study’s sample differed in their formal knowledge of reading, measured by the TKA, and in their practical knowledge of reading, explored through interviews, concept-maps and reading lessons. The TKA revealed that study participants’ held more formal knowledge of concepts related to phonology and phonics and less formal knowledge of concepts related to morphology and syllable types. Related to practical knowledge, data analysis revealed that the teachers in this sample differed in their knowledge of beginning reading with subject-matter knowledge iv accounting for most of the differences. These gaps in subject-matter knowledge also impacted this sample of teachers’ use of instructional strategies and purposes of instruction. Data analysis also revealed insight into the relationships between this sample of teachers’ formal and practical reading knowledge. In this sample, intensive reading intervention teachers with more formal knowledge of reading concepts as measured on the TKA demonstrated more evidence of these concepts within their instruction provided to at-risk first grade readers. The participants in this sample who had less formal knowledge of beginning reading as measured by the TKA demonstrated less evidence of these concepts within their instruction provided to at-risk first grade readers. Participants with less formal knowledge did accurately calibrate their knowledge of the concepts tested on the TKA but did not equate the lower scores to their practical knowledge and overall teaching efficacy. The findings from this study added several important contributions to the literature on teacher knowledge and beginning reading instruction. First, the study was unique in its focus on intensive reading intervention teachers, thus contributing new findings related to a specialized group of teachers. Secondly, this study contributed descriptions of teachers’ practical knowledge with regards to beginning reading instruction. These descriptions are relatively absent in the current literature on teacher knowledge. Thirdly, the results from this study supported earlier findings in favor of a specialized body of subject-matter knowledge, especially related to beginning reading skills and concepts. Finally, the results contributed insight into the relationships between teachers’ formal reading knowledge and practical reading knowledge