Gestão escolar e formação do professor na educação pública da microrregião Sertões de Crateús / Ceará

Abstract

This work aims to discuss some actions by the management staff of four schools from 13ª Coordenadoria Regional de Desenvolvimento da Escola (13th Regional Coordination of School Development – 13th CREDE), located in the microregion of Sertão de Crateús, northern of Ceará, a state in Brazil, where we can note the support on the activities of continuing education of teachers. Furthermore, these schools, through their good practices, achieved better educational outcomes, especially on SPAECE (a large-scale external assessment). So, we aims to, through a qualitative research, as a case study, reflect on how the school managers act as mediators and supporters of the processes of teacher educational formation. As we realized, some managers and teachers already have a different view, taking an active part on the training process that germinated and developed inside the school, as the result of a matured critical consciousness, which feels the needing of improvement to better comply with the demands of the teaching practice. In order to analyze this reality, we used semi-structured interviews made with directors and school coordinators, and we applied questionnaires on the teachers. The choice for this subject-matter is justified by the function of the researcher as a director of a public school in Ceará/Brazil, always concerned about his teachers’ formation and about the teaching and learning process of the students. The main results of this research are linked to good practices and improvement points. Thus, we propose an Educational Plan of Action focused on the implementation of a continuing formations culture of teachers in the schools where it does not exist yet, in order to encourage managers and teachers to create their own formations, according to the needs and specific reality of each school.