Reforço escolar - um instrumento para a qualidade da educação do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The present research describe the Academic Reinforcement Project, created by the State Secretariat of Education of Rio de Janeiro in June of 2012 and implemented in a few schools of the state network. We begin by presenting the scenario in which the education in the state was found, its structure and functioning, and we also mention the policies implemented by the current Secretary of Education aiming to improve the quality of education in the state. Among the adopted policies we selected the Academic Reinforcement Project, which has as its goal to decreased the failure levels in Mathematics and Portuguese Language, besides contributing to elevate the results in high stakes tests such as SAERJ, SAERJINHO, SAEB and Prova Brasil. The focus of the research are the schools of the Regional Metropolitan III, Authors such as Luckesi (2000; 2012), Sant’anna (2011), Werneck (2000;2011;2012 2013), Ferreira (2006) and Freire (2006) provide theoretical support to the discussion of Continued Formation among Teachers, Learning Assessment and the Right to Learn, relevant concepts to the present research. As research instruments we utilized: a survey among teachers involved in the project, interview with the sector responsible for the Reinforcement and observations from the field made by the researcher. The analysis of the results made it possible to establish a diagnose in order to elaborate an Educational Action Plan (PAE, in Portuguese), which proposes strategies to divulge the Project and reinforces the ideas regarding Continued Formation, suggesting a few strategies of improvement and raising questions in regards to the structure of the schools involved in the process.