Internship/Teaching Learning from the Profession: reflections on the mandatory supervised internship of the UFRN Dance Degree course

Abstract

This writing came from concerns and reflections on the subject of the Mandatory Supervised Internship, in particular from the UFRN Dance Degree Course, and from my experiences in such supervised internships as an advisor. The objective of this article is to understand how the initial formation of the student-teacher in Dance in the internship field takes place from the reading and reflections of the reports of mandatory supervised internship of the UFRN Dance Course. With the objective outlined, the question is: Does the Mandatory Supervised Internship of the UFRN Dance Degree Course “prepare” the student in his initial training for the job market? How, from such stages, can the student develop skills necessary for teaching? What is the importance of the Mandatory Supervised Internship in the initial training of the future teacher student of the UFRN Dance course? The research methodology adopted is of a descriptive qualitative nature, taking content analysis as an approach. For this writing, the internship reports from 2011 to 2021 were read and we prioritized for this research the internships done in Elementary School I.