Formação continuada de professores e qualidade da educação no 3º ciclo do ensino fundamental na rede municipal de educação de Belo Horizonte

Abstract

The latest indicators of educational quality of Municipal Education System of Belo Horizonte (RME/BH) have show progress in recent years, but it is still a challenge when performance results and disapproval rates are compared to the expectation of education that everyone has the right to in contemporary society. This reality is evidenced especially in the 3rd cycle of fundamental education, in which the result of the evaluation and the analysis of educational indicators point a gap in learning and disapproval rates even higher than in the 1st and 2nd cycles. The political-pedagogical proposal of RME/BH is characterized by social inclusion, in which education meets all diversity of the city population. In this context, providing quality education to all students is a recurring concern for educational managers. To highlight the complexity involved in the promotion of quality education in the 3rd cycle, two dimensions are pointed in this work: the relationship with adolescent students‘ diversity and teacher‘s initial and continuing education. These dimensions impact the fulfillment of the social function of school to give students access to the cultural heritage of mankind and to allow their full development. Assuming that teacher education is one of the factors related to students‘ performance and, consequently, to the quality of education, this work presents an analysis of current proposals for teacher continuing education of the 3rd cycle at the RME/BH, demonstrating its possibilities and limitations. This study is based on interviews with educational administrators, focal group with 3rd cycle teachers and bibliographical and documentary research. Based on this analysis, this work presents an Educational Action Plan that approaches the main gap identified in this research: the need for continuing education to be conducted at schools in which the 3rd cycle teachers works. This plan has the intention of enabling the construction of a teaching work which may contribute to the improvement of the quality of education in the 3rd cycle of fundamental education at the RME/BH.