Introduction:

The need of continuous learning development of teaching staff, as well as its related critical-reflexive assessment, is necessary to strengthening the praxis.

Objective:

To identify strategies utilized to improve the teaching of nurse professors.

Method:

This is a qualitative descriptive study with theoretical referencing to Lee Shulman, carried out through 3 pedagogic workshops, during April and May 2013, with 6 professional nursing educators. Data were thematically analyzed using Minayo operative proposal.

Results:

From Shulman’s teaching knowledge base, it appears the knowledge of content and general pedagogical knowledge which strengthen the content pedagogical knowledge (CPK) of professors and instrument them to the moment of teaching. The CPK of these teachers has its feeding source through reflection (reflection on errors, objectives and student’s feedback), potentiated by the personal dimension and the proximity with the discipline thought as a theoretical domain.

Conclusion:

The teaching particularities and experiences which mark the personal, professional, and academic trajectories of teachers influence the mode of teaching and determine the development of the process of construction and enhancement of the CPK source. There is a need of participation in meetings of pedagogic training to orient the teaching exercise, and defend the need and relevance of studies on CPK in nursing, to make possible the collaboration towards research in the teaching of nursing and health, providing bases for strategies of teaching formation.