Reuniões pedagógicas como espaço de formação continuada em serviço: estudo de caso da Escola Estadual Monte Sinai/Esmeraldas - MG

Abstract

The teacher’s role is essential to the quality of education and a key element in the educational process. Given the constant challenges, we consider continuing education, especially the in-service training, one of the requirements presented to these professionals. In this sense, we can observe that the laws, both nationally and in the state, even if slowly, have been moving towards valuing pedagogical time. However, there are still some challenges to the effective use of this activity-hour. As a mathematics teacher in the state since 1997 and, currently in the management of the Monte Sinai State School (EEMS), since 2015, I realize the need to make better use of this pedagogical time at school, to contribute to the professional development of the teacher, using the space of the school itself as a privileged locus of this formation. Therefore, there is a need to research: how school management could better plan and organize pedagogical meetings at the Monte Sinai State School, enabling greater participation and involvement of professionals, as well as providing moments of continued training in the service of the teachers? As specific objectives of this study, we seek to describe how the pedagogical meetings are regulated and how they occur at the Monte Sinai State School, to analyze the possibility of better using such meetings, and to propose an action plan that helps the management of EEMS in the organization and optimization of meetings so that they are formative for school professionals. To achieve the objectives, we approach the research methodology of a qualitative case study, conducting interviews with the management team (vice-principal and specialists), application of questionnaires to the permanent teachers, and those designated with at least two years of practice at the school in question. Based on the results, we present an Educational Action Plan, contemplating the following actions: use of module 2 meetings for continuing education in service of teacher; improve the planning of these meetings by the management team; and foster interdisciplinary projects as a training practice at school. Finally, we show a projection for the future, taking into account the current scenario of class suspension due to the pandemic of the New Coronavirus