Fatores de eficácia associados à gestão escolar e sua relação com os resultados de desempenho da escola

Abstract

This Educational Action Plan (PAE, in Portuguese) is characterized as a case study on school management, undertaken at a unit located on the Jequitinhonha Valley in Minas Gerais. This school has significantly stood out among the other members of the Regional Superintendency of Education of Diamantina to which it belongs, given its expressive results on national evaluations obtaining an Index of Development of Basic Education (IDEB, in Portuguese) of 7.9 in 2009 exceeding the target projected to 2021. Given the schools expressive results, the study consisted in analyzing the management practices carried out by the management team of such unit, aiming at comprehending the to what extent these actions have caused the school and its students to achieve success on external evaluations. Firstly, we conducted a case study aiming to describe the management practices of the pedagogical work which reflect on the success reached by the students and compare such practices to other effective schools, pointed out on other studies. Afterwards, the study was based on the work by Heloísa Lück, having as reference the ten dimensions of school management which she describes, highlighting the pedagogical dimension as the most relevant one to the study. By means of field research we applied a questionnaire to the teachers in order to compare the studied theory and school management practices aiming at identifying the management characteristics of such school and which implemented procedures correspond to the studied dimensions. On the third chapter the Intervention Plan is presented, composed of guidance to the implementation of the efficient methods gathered, particular to management, to be applied to the other schools of the Regional Superintendency of Education of Diamantina and also to the improvement of the studied school, so that its success may reach even further as a model of management to the school and to the SRE.