Abstract
This article results from research into teaching cases as mediation in teacher training. The study was conducted with four novice teachers in their first year of work in the early years of elementary school, in a municipality in the countryside of the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. We investigated the possibility of using teaching cases as training strategies to mediate the professional development of novice teachers. Data was collected using teaching cases and discussion groups, in a collective network of reflections on training challenges and needs. The results showed that the teaching cases contributed greatly as mediation for teachers to understand how they build their knowledge, in which collective reflections constituted a training strategy.
TEACHER INITIATION; TEACHING PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT