Fatores que causam insegurança no início da docência

In this text is discussed the issue of insecurity during the first five years of teaching, which ranges from the shortcomings of Initial Teacher Training in preparing future teachers for the profession to the instability of the teaching career. It presents an excerpt from the postdoctoral research titled “Reflections of the Lesson Study experience lived during undergraduate studies on the practice of Mathematics teachers,” which involved seven teachers who had participated in a Lesson Study experience carried out through the Pedagogical Residency Program in 2019, while they were still students in the Mathematics Teaching Degree program at FCT/UNESP. The participants were interviewed in the first semester of 2024 via the Google Meet platform. The meetings were recorded and transcribed in order to be analyzed using Discursive Textual Analysis, following the stages of unitization, categorization, and metatext. This text presents some of their responses with the aim of identifying the factors that caused insecurity at the beginning of their teaching careers. The importance of shedding light on this topic is emphasized, as such insecurities can lead to teachers giving up or abandoning the profession, thus highlighting the need for changes in Initial Teacher Training programs and for the expansion of policies integrated into this stage of training.