Formação continuada na escola: como os professores dos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental intepretam os resultados da Prova Brasil

Abstract

Training is necessary to all education professionals, since the human being is never done or finished. In the context of constant social change, continued training gains new strength in the social, cultural and economic conjunctures and the school begins to be understood as a privileged locus for such training. However, for this happens, the school needs to be in fact a place of reflection, able to identify problems, discuss them, and collectively to solve them. Parallel to the discussion on continuing training, we face the results of the Brazilian national assessment - Prova Brazil -, that insist on highlighting the low performance of students in public schools. The Prova Brazil, in particular, has released the results for each school in order to involve teachers and other employees in the reflection on the quality of education and learning of their students. In order to try to understand how the school interprets the results of the Prova Brazil, favoring the continued training of its teachers, an analysis of the actions of a public school located in the municipality of Nova Iguaçu, which serves students from the first segment of the Elementary School, was done. The research, therefore, has a qualitative nature, involving participant observation, questionnaires with the subjects chosen: teachers, education supervision, direction and data collection in the City Department of Education. The theoretical referential of this discussion is rooted in discussions on the valuing of the school and on the importance of that as privileged locus of continued training. Thus, authors such as Candau, Imbernón, among others, are fundamental. The survey results can be excellent educational tools to foster discussion about teaching and learning in school.