PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE OF THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: an integrative review

Abstract

The World Health Organization (W.H.O.) warned the world about the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, a disease caused by the Coronavirus, called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2). With the onset of the pandemic, preventive actions were recommended to mitigate or contain the virus and avoid overloading the global health system, including social isolation and closing schools. Thus, classes began to take place remotely, and, like other subjects in basic education, Physical Education was also adapted to the new teaching format. The objective of the study is to analyze the pedagogical strategies used by Physical Education teachers to teach their classes in the context of the pandemic. It is an integrative review that had its data collection in the databases: Latin American and Caribbean Literature in Health Sciences (LILACS), Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO), Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), Google Scholar and Online System for Searching and Analyzing Medical Literature (MEDLINE). The results found demonstrate that the pandemic period required Physical Education teachers to make a quick decision, based on adapting their traditional face-to-face methodologies to a new online teaching method. It is concluded that teachers faced difficulties due to the health requirements raised by the Covid-19 pandemic, however, it was necessary to develop new skills on other teaching methodologies, with the implementation of digital tools in their classes.