Physical Education in the early years of elementary education: rethinking the teaching education

Abstract

Starting in the Physical Education teaching experience in the elementary grades of a private school in Porto Alegre-RS, we aimed to report some demands of pedagogical practice in this level’s classes. We evinced that much more than knowlodge related to contentes and teaching methodology, the teacher’s work requires improvisation and negotiation with the many subjects compounding the scholarly environment – mainly with the teacher as a reference. Furthermore, the teacher must analyse, during class, the implications of the activities to the students, aiming not to restate the socialy built differences and enabling the integration of everyone in the Movement of the Body  Culture. We learned that the teaching knowlodge is constantly reformulated due to implications of this contexto, so it’s necessary to be careful not to let one self count only with pre-elaborated class routine, and always revise the pedagogical goals and the teaching activities.