Reflexes of an eLearning in-service professionalization course on the building of teacher’s professionalism

Abstract

A decade after the first edition (2009/10) of the In-service Professionalization Course for public school teachers of the 2^nd and 3^rd cycles of Basic and Secondary Education, held in eLearning at the Open University of Portugal, we looked for its reflexes in the construction of the professionalism of the teachers who took it. This article was produced following on that descriptive, quantitative approach study, using an online questionnaire as data collection tool, and the Office 365 Excel spreadsheet to analyze such data. Above all, it aims at becoming the starting point of a reflection that is expected to be extended to all teachers of all editions of the In-service Professionalization Course (IPC). The results obtained show that, for the teachers who participated in the study, the expectations created before the beginning of the course as to the contribution it could make to building their professionalism were met; the majority of the surveyed teachers who attended the IPC entered the teaching career after concluding it; the contribution of the IPC to the construction of their teaching professionalism was relevant or very relevant.