O papel do superintendente escolar como apoio à gestão das escolas de ensino médio no município de Iguatu - Ceará

Abstract

This educational action plan aims analyses how is the support of school superintendence for school managers for state high school in the municipality of Iguatu. The study was performed with five schools and school superintendents who carry out the school management accompaniment since mid 1998. Beyond research on the topic, it was performed interviews with principals, experts and project school manager in SEDUC. The interviews followed a semi-structured guide to better organize the information collection. To start research we were able to establish hypotheses that with the implantation of educational superintendence acting in the accompaniment these schools, the school management was strengthened and the principals began to see superintendent as a partner in the conduct of management process thus strengthening the autonomy of the schools of municipality. Before this, firstly it was presented a project description in the Ceará state, its origins, its actions and competencies of superintendents. These information are present in the first chapter, where we present further the chart of situation of municipality schools. In the second chapter we will bring the bibliographic consulted and the testimonies of those involved in research: project schools manager in SEDUC, school experts and principals of the five schools surveyed. Still we will present the theoretical basis with authors ‘support like Lück (2006, 2009 and 2010), Mintzberg(2010), Dourado(2007) and Souza(2009), which dealt school autonomy, leadership of the school manager, and effectiveness in schools. Finally in chapter 3, we will approach the educational action plan – PAE, with intervention proposal for school superintendence can overcome its execution difficulties mainly related school visits. We could see from the research that the school superintendence contributed much to the autonomy of schools, partnership SCHOOL-CREDE-SEDUC and to leadership of school managers institutions surveyed. Nevertheless, we realized that some actions need to be improved for the project achieves a better efficiency.