A formação continuada no município de Sobral (CE)

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyse the continued formation in the city of Sobral/CE. Education in this city has been calling atention for showing an evolution of the avaliation indicators as well as for performing specific continued formation for beginner teachers in municipal education. This work intended to analyse the process of implementation of the politics of continued formation in Sobral, and also to evaluate its contributions to the professional development of beginner teachers. It was chosen the qualitative approach of research, wich considers the perspective of the subjects, the context in wich they operate and the meanings they assign to their experiences. For that, it were used different research procedures and instruments, such as: semi-structured interview and focal group, document analysis and questionnaires in the attempt to embrace, in the various fields and with the involved actors, all of the continued formation process. The subjects were, in the Education Secretary, the educational superintendent and the coordinator of mastership appreciation; in the School of Formation of teachers, the principal, the coordinator of formation and 11 former teachers; and 45 beginner teachers that evaluated the formation offered by the municipal sector. During the making of this work, it were unveiled actions that were articulated to form an educational system in the municipal sector that also adopts meritocracy and results policy as reference to reward schools and its teams. The continued formation assumes such great importance that a School of Permanent Formation was created, because it is understood that formation is important and education is permanent, all of the involved: principals, coordinators and teachers, go through formation in exercise and cocharge each other for the results of the students learning. The results have pointed to the professional development of all instances involved in the process of continued formation