“LEARNING JOURNEY RECORDS” AT LEEI/ PERNAMBUCO

connections between teacher training and reading and writing practices in Early Childhood Education

Abstract

The teacher training proposal under the National Commitment to Child Literacy – Early Childhood Education, in line with guidelines adopted for the Northeast region of Brazil, included the completion of “Learning Journey Records” by municipal trainers. In this article, we first present the proposal for the Reading and Writing in Early Childhood Education (“LEEI”) course in Pernambuco, indicating the selected topics, materials used, and teaching strategies developed collectively by the coordination team, advisors, and state trainers linked to the university. Next, we focus on the analysis of 54 Learning Journey Records produced in the nine classes, under the guidance of their respective state trainers. The work was carried out in groups and presented in the form of photo albums with captions recording training activities and teaching practices with 4 and 5 year-old children, in 184 cities in Pernambuco, involving 263 municipal trainers. The selection of photographs and descriptive captions were discussed as evidence of conceptions about the topics covered throughout the course and their repercussions on the reading and writing practices recorded.