Estágio não-obrigatório e a mediação junto a crianças com necessidades educativas especiais: relato de uma experiência no município de Três Lagoas/MS

Abstract

This report focuses on my experience with a non-mandatory internship made possible by the Pedagogy course at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Três Lagoas campus (UFMS/CPTL), in partnership with the Center for Business-School Integration (CIEE). The internship was a paid activity and was carried out at a municipal school located in a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city of Três Lagoas-MS. The internship period lasted two years, starting in August 2018 and ending in August 2020, with a daily workload of 4 hours, totaling 20 hours per week. In this report, I will discuss my experience as an intern responsible for monitoring the learning and development process of a student with special educational needs, enrolled in the 5th grade of elementary school, in 2018. According to reports from the family, the student, from a city in the interior of the State of São Paulo, had already been rejected by some schools due to his history as an aggressive child, behavior resulting from two diagnosed disorders – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) –, which made him agitated and required constant monitoring by a teacher at school. This report presents some experiences that I had the opportunity to work with this student. I will also discuss the extensive work of the intern, which was rewarding and, at the same time, full of challenges and new learning. During the experience, I met committed and special people who helped me to carry out a new project, about which I only knew the theoretical dimension studied in the course subjects. In this work, I report how I grew and learned with the students, teachers and everyone who is part of that school institution, to which I am proud to have contributed, where I made friends who I take with me and, mainly, where I acquired knowledge with the young man I had the pleasure of accompanying. Despite the initial difficulties and some differences of opinion that arose during the time we spent together, I was able to realize how rewarding it was to have moved forward and to have faced the challenges inside and outside the classroom. I owe the opportunity to live this enriching experience to the Pedagogy course at UFMS, Três Lagoas campus.