Atribuições de diretor de escola pública: desafios para a formação

Abstract

Aiming to reaffirm the importance of the in-service training of school managers, this Educational Action Plan (PAE, in Portuguese) has as its goal the proposal of a program designed to capacitate teachers from the municipal education network of Juiz de Fora, who aspire to run for school managers, exercising such function. It is clear that nowadays with a society ever growing in complexity, and with the framework of information pertaining to the school daily life, principals are being under increasing demand. As such, it is possible to observe that many principals, even though elected through democratic processes, find difficulty in playing the roles that come with the position. Such fact is made evident, in the scope of understanding public policies implemented by the federal and state spheres, as for example, evaluation policies. This may be observed in the way that managers deal with educational indicators made available to their units. It is also possible to identify other difficulties, such as the lack of skills in utilizing technological tools, as well as difficulty in dealing with the budgetary issue of the people management one. Therefore, the proposal is to create a training and capacitating program to school managers in the municipal educational network of Juiz de For a, having the Center for Teacher Formation as the favourable setting to stimulate and perfect the skills inherent to the position of school manager.