A gestão escolar na condução do projeto de ação pedagógica (PAP): como melhorar o interesse e desempenho dos estudantes?

Abstract

This dissertation is based on the concept that the teaching and learning processes are more effective when done with the involved of all and that the school learning is built from good relationship teacher and student. Analyzing two schools manager´s roles in conducting and implementing a Pedagogical Action Project from the Municipal Department of Education in Belo Horizonte, it was possible to verify a serious problem at the schools that needs to be tackled urgently: teachers and students unsatisfied with Education. The surveyed schools have similar characteristics, such as complete elementary education and opposing characteristics, such as the Socio Economic Level of the communities in which they are inserted. Both present difficulties in respect to students` interest and performance during the last three years of elementary school, a factor of greater motivation for this research. Through a one case study of the two schools’ management, an analysis of the main features of the managers` actions was done, based on studies of authors such as Heloise Luck and Thelma Polon. As methodological tools, questionnaires were elaborated to the teachers besides interviewing a group of students from each school, the schools’ and the Municipal Department of Education in Belo Horizonte managers. At the end was elaborated an action plan focused on the training of school managers and teachers.