Formação de monitores: desenvolvimento de atitudes baseado nos saberes de Paulo Freire

INTRODUCTION: Academic monitoring in higher education contributes to the comprehensive development of both monitors and students. To achieve this, monitor training workshops must follow the principles of liberating and critical-reflective education, preparing the monitor beyond technical content-based approaches. OBJECTIVE: To report the experience of implementing a monitor training program, focusing on developing attitudes, knowledge, and skills essential for comprehensive training. EXPERIENCE REPORT: The attitude development workshop in monitor training begins with a reflection on the positive and negative aspects of the monitoring program, as well as possible solutions based on the monitors' experiences as students. After this stage, participants have 30 minutes to read excerpts from Paulo Freire's Pedagogia da Autonomia (Pedagogy of Autonomy), followed by a discussion circle to share their perceptions of the text and its correlation with the monitor’s educational practice. This approach integrates reflection and practice, promoting critical, collaborative, and participatory learning among future educators. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: The workshop emphasizes a broad and critical reflection on the monitor’s role, encouraging problematization, analysis, and discussion of the competencies necessary for an active participant in the teaching-learning process. The aim is to prepare monitors who act as agents of transformation, rather than merely as content transmitters, contributing meaningfully to academic and human development.