The "Apprentice Project" is an initiative of the Ceará Federal University (UFC) for Tutorial Biology Education, which focus on promoting incentives to reactivate science practice lab classes in public schools in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil. The objective of this research is to investigate the expectations and difficulties that some teachers had found in implementing experimental activities during the Apprentice Project, as well as to overcome those difficulties. We tried to determine the potential that the interaction among university, public school, teachers, and pre-service teachers has on science/biology teacher education. Despite the difficulties, the collaborative work contributed to the education of teachers and pre-service teachers. Due to this research, teachers, pre-service teachers, and researchers had the possibility of expressing their conceptions and reflecting on the experimental activities in public schools.
Experimental activities; Teacher's education; Science education