Continuing Teacher Education of the IF Sertão Pernambucano in Ouricuri and the Possibilities of the use of the Distance Education
IF Sertão Pernambucano. Education. Training. Teaching Practice. Technology. Distance Learning.
The current intervention Project required for finishing the Professional Master Degree Course in Education – Curricula, language and pedagogical innovations (FACED - UFBA) aimed at studying the request for continued pedagogical training of teachers from IF Sertão campus Ouricuri, regarding the possibility of implanting distance learning. This Campus counts on a teacher’s board which is compounded by bachelors, technologists and graduates, what makes the matter of continued pedagogical training a necessity regarding to their performance as teaching professionals, according to legal demands.It’s clear that the interest upon this subject strongly derives from the school evasion phenomenon, whose rise has been associated to the lack of teacher’s pedagogical preparation, among other issues. In this context, an intervention proposal should consider both the extensive teaching routine, with teaching, extension, research and innovation activities and the demands of an audience that already has a solid initial formation, knowledge acquired through experiences as professionals of specific fields and autonomy in the management of their professionalization, what makes us to reflect upon the possibilities of the usage of Distance Learning.To do so, a qualitative research exploratory and descriptive, for allowing greater familiarity with the problem, making it possible to construct hypotheses and describe phenomena was carried out. It collected data based on the life and cultural background of teachers who answered an on line questionnaire with multiple – choice and open – ended questions about their teacher training, the request for continued pedagogical training, the way school evasion in related to teaching practice and the possibility of implanting teaching training by means of distance learning courses in a permanent and cyclic way. Institutional documents such as Plano de Desenvolvimento Institucional – PDI, Projeto Pedagógico Institucional – PPI, Relatórios, as well as the teachers’ relationships with their respective graduations and their curricula were analyzed. This brought basis and references to this study.The data analysis pointed to a greater difficulty concerning to the usage of methodologies used by bachelors and technologists, what comes to interfere in their teaching practice; there is a necessity for continued teacher training in the Campus, as long as it is meaningful and bring their experiences lived in the classroom as a starting point. Considering this analysis, this project proposes offering teachers from Campus Ouricuri continued training through distance learning as a concrete and viable intervention possibility.