Percepção e atuação docente sobre o ensino de ciências e biologia para alunos surdos no município de Porto Nacional-TO

Abstract

This work evaluated the perception and performance of science and biology teachers in the learning of deaf students in the city of Porto Nacional -TO, in view of the challenges that professionals have faced in recent decades in detriment to new technologies and teaching modalities. For this, a descriptive research with a qualitative approach was carried out, where each respondent indicated new participants (snowball technique) using a semi-structured script. The interviews were granted and recorded by videoconference through the Google Meet platform and later transcribed. We analyzed the teachers' discourse about their practices in the classroom to understand the relevance of teacher education and activity. The results pointed to difficulties in the performance of teachers when it comes to knowledge focused on the Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) from academic training to teaching activity. Contact with the deaf student in the classroom is limited by the basic command of the language. Attempts to use visual didactic strategies, in many cases, make it difficult for students to learn. Thus, the help of the family, availability of interpreters and the survey and creation of "signal terms" aimed at science and biology are strategies that help teachers to overcome their limitations in the use of Sign Language and in contact with students.