Professional competences in Physical Education: an approach along the educational career

The objective of this study was to analyze the professional competences elucidated in the educational career of Physical Education teachers from school. 64 teachers of Physical Education of the municipal public net of Porto Alegre (RS) participated in the study. In the collection of data a questionnaire was used composed by open and closed questions, whose answers were classified based on the model of professional competence of Cheetham; Chivers (1998), with the application of the Software Nvivo 7.0. In the group of analyzed competences, it was identified that teachers with more experience are those that stand out the functional competences in their paths, characterized by the specific competence of the occupation and of the organization and administration. It stands out that the social and vocational dimension was preponderant in elapsing of the educational career, in the detriment of the interpersonal dimension of the social and personal competence. In spite of the importance of the ethics to the educational profession, the ethical competence and values was not expressive in the units of registration of this study.