This study has as its aim to analyze and to describe the difficulties physical education teachers face in the first five years of professional work as regards pedagogical practices developed at schools. The starting point were beginning teachers, chosen because according to the cycles of professional development established by Huberman (1992), these teachers are eager to work and have difficulties that are more peculiar than the ones in al other phases of the career. The methodology used for the study was field work and literature survey, and a questionnaire elaborated by Campos (2004) for teachers who work with the discipline Physical Education in basic education of schools from the county education system of Caratinga, MG, was applied to a total of 8 teachers randomly chosen from a total of 07 schools. In concluding this study, we observed that the objectives had been reached; and the main factors pointed out by teachers that intervene with pedagogical practice had been: wages; indiscipline by pupils; the impact on reality; the infrastructure of schools; the theory/practice dichotomy and the degradation of the profession. Therefore, knowing the teachers and their pedagogical practices seeking to understand the conditions in which they work in schools is extremely important. Only having this logic as the departure point will it be possible to advance and to find ways for a transformation.
