Formação continuada de professores do Projeto Avançar: um desafio para as coordenadorias distritais de educação da rede pública estadual de ensino do Amazonas

Abstract

The present study analyzes Avançar Project (Projeto Avançar), more specifically the difficulties in offering continuing education to the teachers who work in it. The Project was created by the State Secretariat of Education and Teaching Quality of Amazonas (SEDUC-AM) in 2006, and has a specific Curricular Pedagogical Proposal to attend an educational policy to correct the flow of final elementary school students. The Pedagogical Proposal approved by Resolution nº 83/2007 (AMAZONAS, 2007a of the State Council of Education of the Amazon (CEEAM), assures the students from this Project a differentiated methodology, which aims to provide students opportunities to develop competencies and skills in a short period of time. However, in order to develop a differentiated proposal, it is necessary to offer training to the teachers who make up the initiative. However, due to the absence of a systematization of training meetings for the teachers who work in the program, it is necessary to question: what are the difficulties to offer a continuous training to the teachers who work in Avançar Project? The hypothesis defended here is that Avançar Project does not provide continuing education for its teachers. The training is provided by Padre Anchieta Vocational Training Center (CEPAN- SEDUC-AM), and is offered according to the teachers' demand. This demand is sent by the schools to the Coordinators who, in turn, forward the requests. However, the flow of these demands is not always obeyed, which means that the teachers do not have the training they need to work with Avançar Project. Thus, the general objective of this research is to identify the obstacles that SEDUC-AM faces in order to offer continuing education to the teachers from Avançar Project, and propose actions to minimize them. The specific objectives are: I) to describe the difficulties of SEDUC-AM in providing regular training for the teachers from Avançar Project; II) to analyze the factors that make it difficult for teachers of specific training to deal with the methodology of Avançar Project and, finally, III) to propose an Educational Action Plan (PAE) with a continuous training structured to contribute to the pedagogical practice of the teachers who work in the classes of the Project. As a theoretical basis, we sought support in the studies of Nóvoa (1992), Candau (1997) Tardif (2011), Hengemuhle (2008), Mainardes (2006) and Gatti (2010) and Condé (2012). The study methodology is qualitative, and interviews were used as research instruments.