Teacher’ formation in the pandemic context: reconfigurations of teaching act by undergraduate students in supervised traineeship in emergency remote education

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we discuss teachers’ formation actions, more specifically the Supervised Traineeship, in the context of emergency remote education resulting from the new coronavirus pandemic (SARS-CoV-2). Our purpose is to understand how students-trainees (re)configure their teaching practices in the Supervised Traineeship in the modality of emergency remote teaching, both in the observation and conducting phases. To do so, we obtained five training reports from undergraduate students in English Language, analyzed using a qualitative-interpretative approach. As a theoretical foundation, we place ourselves, more broadly, in the field of Applied Linguistics and, specifically, in reflections on teaching work and its constituent elements, from the perspective of Sociodiscursive Interactionism. The results point to obstacles in the interaction among university teacher educator, teacher tutors, trainees and students of basic education, both due to the lack of technological resources and the difficulties of teachers and trainees to build ways and make available artifacts that can constitute learning instruments. This scenario, therefore, highlights the complexity and difficulties of emergency remote education in the process of formation and teaching performance of students in the context of the Supervised Traineeship.

Keywords:
teaching work; emergency remote learning; supervised traineeship; training report