A escola como lócus de formação: uma proposta de desenvolvimento profissional docente

Abstract

The work is based on the perspectives and yarning of the teachers from state and municipal education network of the city of Pelotas in relation to the continuing education of teachers. Through interviews and data collection it was noticed that the formation is often imposed and with little participation of teachers in their planning and in their themes. Therefore, there is a mismatch between the training they receive and the reality in classroom. The project was developed at a municipal school in Pelotas, initially with ten teachers and it sought to reflect on their baggage, their knowledge, their origins and how they interfere with their practice. Thus, it was sought to study and to construct a proposal of continuing education that starts from reflections and studies that can build a process of professional evolution following a training model based on the Curriculum Project IRES (GrupoInvestigación en la Escuela, 1991). These principles refer to a didactic model investigation in the school according to Porlán and Rivero (1998). For this author there are two types of professional knowledge: the traditional (majority) and the desirable (investigative), this last was wanted by the formation proposal. The methodology of progression is based on four methodological moments: knowledge of practical problems and relation with presuppositions, evolution of conceptions, planning and development of curricular hypotheses and, finally,metareflection. For methodological development meetings and written interviews happened in order to identify the knowledge of these moments within the formation process. The teachers presented, in their majority, an evolution of their didactic models. Their writings and reports have identified their knowledge and also their beliefs, which are extremely difficult to be deconstructed. But it is possible that through a formation that leads the reflection it can provide a movement that makes the teacher is, at all times, willing to investigate their practice and the interests of students. It was perceived the importance of the contents, of the work methodology to be used, of placing the students in the focus of the learning, understanding that simply changing the methodology of work does not make it an investigative and differentiated teacher, but a planning that considers the reality and the interests of the students. Continuing education should start from within the school and primarily involving the interests of teachers, with moments that provide the reflection and the planning of school activities