O papel da gestão escolar no processo de melhoria da qualidade do ensino: o caso da Escola Estadual Matta Machado

Abstract

The present dissertation is characterized as a management case study developed at a public state school in the city of Diamantina, in the state of Minas Gerais. Such school has been having prominent results in the external evaluations, obtaining a 7,0 score in the Basic Education Development Index (Ideb) of 2011. In 2013, it won the the National Award of School Management – PGE. The context presented was the motivation of the study which aimed to analyze the management practices developed and performed by the management team of the school with the objective of comprehending to what extent the management of the State School Matta Machado has contributed for it to become an effective school so that we may propose improvements to the process. In order to do so, in the first chapter we conducted a description of the school presenting the general characteristics of the institution and the educational results compared to the municipality, to the Regional Educational Superintendence to which it belongs and the state of Minas Gerais. On the second chapter the study was based on the works of Lück, referring to the dimensions in school management and on the key factors connected to school management, researched by Polon. It was also conducted an analysis of the data gathered under the perspective of such authors. The third chapter was dedicated to proposing an Action Plan having as its core goal the creation of a collaborative network among the several internal and external members of the school in order to subsidize and support the work of the management team in implementing of innovative strategies to solve the fragile points highlighted in this study.