O conselho de classe como instrumento de gestão pedagógica e de planejamento do trabalho escolar

Abstract

The present work was developed under the Professional Master in Management and Evaluation on Public Education (PPGP) from the Center for Public Policies and Evaluation on Education offered by the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The management case studied aims to discuss pedagogical management mechanisms based on the information systematization about school work constructed in the class council meetings held in the context of Campestre School in the city of Ouro Preto, located in the state of Minas Gerais / Brazil. This study includes: i) the mechanisms building for the pedagogical management effectiveness through information produced in class councils meetings which occur at the end of each bimester and at the end of the school year; ii) the process understanding of the class councils functioning that happen in the researched school; iii) identify the factors which prevent or hinder that the proposals built in class councils meetings materialize themselves in actions of pedagogical actions planning or re-planning. The question that guides the case study and the development of the research is the following: what measures can be adopted by the Campestre School management team so that class councils can effectively become spaces for the diagnosis and monitoring of student learning, and how to use the data and evidence produced in the councils to subsidize the pedagogical management in school? So, it was proposed to collect the information from intervention instruments used before and during the class councils with the purpose of looking for elements generated by the councils that will give subsidies to propose actions of monitoring and evaluation of the school work that result in a satisfactory teaching and learning process for all students. The results of this research, together with theoretical references which discuss the class councils as instance of school work evaluation and monitoring, as well as the teachers’ action as managers of the students learning process, served as basis for the Educational Action Plan (PAE) elaboration. Thos plan consists of three sections: continuing education and in-service training for school staff; creation of a study and planning group; organization on class councils records. These actions were planned in order to stimulate the class councils as collective spaces for the school work diagnosis and planning.