FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA PARA DOCENTES DE QUÍMICA

This paper aims to present a proposal for continuing education for Chemistry teachers, focusing on methodological accessibility applied to teaching deaf students. The proposal was developed from a master's research that identified gaps in the training of Chemistry teachers at the Integrated High School of the Federal Institute of Paraíba regarding the necessary knowledge for teaching this science to deaf students. It is a pedagogical action research seeking answers to the needs identified in the institution. The continuing education course was based on recognizing the uniqueness of deaf people in their relationship with the world, manifested by the cultural artifacts of visual experience and sign language. The pilot course was developed on the Google Classroom platform and addressed the thematic areas: understanding deafness and sign language; methodological accessibility; the Chemistry teacher in the education of deaf people; and bilingual education for the deaf. After offering and evaluating the pilot course, the video lessons produced were restructured and made available on the YouTube channel of the João Pessoa campus of the Federal Institute of Paraíba, with audio in Portuguese and signed in Brazilian Sign Language, in addition to the creation of a replicable model version of the course on Google Classroom. The continuing education course was considered a tool with the potential to minimize the difficulties found in initial training gaps, starting from teaching situations with concrete examples from classroom reality, beyond a limited theoretical perspective.