A atuação dos agentes de acompanhamento da gestão escolar (AAGE) na Regional Norte Fluminense (SEEDUC-RJ)

Abstract

The present dissertation aims to identify the main hurdles in the work conducted by the employees of Regional Secretariat of the North State of Rio de Janeiro which encompasses the group of School Managements Follow-up Agents (AAGE, in Portuguese), created by the Education Secretariat of the State of Rio de Janeiro to guide, follow-up and monitor the actions of the program, called “Strategic Planning”. Having as its goal to “be among the five best education networks of the country by the year 2014”, the current management of the SEEDUC implemented in 2011 the tools from the Integrated School Management (GIDE, in Portuguese) , a management system created by the Management Development Institute (INDG, in Portuguese). Such institute, a private company from the field of management, was responsible for teaching a forty hour course in 2011 to two hundred and fifty employees about the functioning of the methodology of the Integrated Management. After completing the stages of training, each Agent came to work with a group of five to eight schools under their responsibility, monitoring the GIDE. However, by means of the professional practice of the researcher as an AAGE, it was possible to verify that there are a few difficulties on monitoring the schools, which compromise the success of the GIDE management tool. Having that in mind, we aimed to identify the main hurdles in the work of the AAGEs, from a survey applied to the fifteen Agents who monitor the GIDE tools in the schools of the north of the state. Moreover, we conducted a documental research and compared the monitoring systems of the education networks in the states of Ceará to the one in Minas Gerais. It was possible to highlight by means of the survey applied to the Agents, the main difficulties in conducting their work, such as the number of monitored schools, the strategies used by the schools to reach their targets, the support team to the school manager, among others. From the analysis of the data and based on the experiences from other states, the author proposes an educational action plan so as to contribute to the tasks that fall under the responsibility of the Agents, who guide the state schools in the north of the state of Rio de Janeiro.