O desenvolvimento das competências do mediador docente online durante sua vida profissional

Abstract

Teachers capable of acting in a distance learning online course must have the potential to develop actions in a responsible manner, enabling characterization of the scaffolding  process in terms of its recognition as a teacher. The potential is determined by the skills developed during their working life, which makes their actions and their recognition by acting in a particular educational context. Their academic and professional experience is essential to survey the list of skills they have developed. The aim of this paper is to discuss, by means of bibliographical research, the importance of the process of  identifying the skills developed by a teacher to act in a certain context of distance online education, considering his history of life. It is felt that this history determines the degree of freedom of action of the teacher in a particular context, since the professional experience expands the menu of potential actions and reactions in the decision process in different teaching situations in which the teacher is inserted, what it is important for the understanding of his potential as a teacher.