O papel do coordenador pedagógico na melhoria da educação básica: uma reflexão sobre o uso da avaliação externa

Abstract

Considering the importance of external assessment as analyses resource of school accomplishment, as well as its use on public policies related sector orientation and having, at school, the pedagogical counsel in charge of utilizing the assessment results in order to reverse today s national education system, an idea has come to analyze how this institution, under the counsel s point of view, uses the external assessment results to improve teaching quality. To do so, it has been necessary to ask, through interviews, among other aspects, what the counsel understands for external assessment, its purpose for school, besides the fact of how to proceed on the use of the gathered results to help their pedagogical work. On the interviews it is possible to be better understood the anguish by which these professionals go through and how they face the direction of their job towards the legal things that guide their day by day work. In addition to the interviews, theoretical professionals specialized on assessment, school management, participation and changes were required so that it would be possible to apprehend better the researched subject. The research has been made with 4 (four) Pedagogical Counsels of Public Schools in the city of Presidente Prudente. Regarding the results, it is possible to notice a kind of difficulty the Pedagogical Counsels have to utilize the external assessment information based on its proposal, which is to improve the quality of learning. Moreover, these professionals have no experience to promote teachers capacity at the schools where they work.