CEC Natal closes the year in the training program for managers
06/12/2016
Text and photos: Ariane Mondo – Ascom ISD
On the 28th of November a team from Municipal Secretary of Education (SME) of Natal been in Science Education Center (CEC) Afredo J. Monteverde School, Natal unit, to carry out a partial evaluation of the training program for managers, which began on August 10 and lasts for two years.
This is a project proposed and coordinated by the Scientific Education Centers (CECs) and developed in partnership with the SME and the managers of CEC Natal partner schools.
Judineide Domingos, assistant secretary for pedagogical management of the teaching network in the municipality of Natal, stated that this partnership with the Santos Dumont Institute (ISD) became stronger, now counting not only on students and teachers, but also on administrators. This is important for them to better understand the extended journey of the student, who spends part of his time at school and another part at the Science Education Center.
“This work with the CEC has really brought elements so that we can further improve our practice. This interface already has some important results in terms of further strengthening the role of the pedagogical director and the administrative director. The perspective is to expand to other teaching units so that other managers can participate as students come from other units as well”, said Judineide.
Guilherme Lopes, educator and coordinator of the training program for CEC managers, says: “The experience has been one of mutual and constant learning, as our proposal is to form a group willing to collectively reflect and face the challenges of school management. In this process, we are getting to know better the reality of the municipal schools of Natal every day and the administrators are able to count on a space where their experiences are shared and new knowledge about the public school is produced”.
The director of the school department of the Natal SME, Luciene Urbano, confirms the importance of working together and says that the managers are very motivated with this training: “Our perspective in this partnership with the ISD is that we can transpose theory into practice in this training of managers, in an attempt to find a way to carry out some processes, so that we can achieve results in the learning of our students. What is most striking about this partnership is that we are starting to change the thinking, posture, and daily school life of managers. That for me is a start. It is moving, provoking, unsettling,” she said.
Continuing Education Program for Educators
The training course for managers of public schools that partner with the Scientific Education Centers (CECs) is one of the projects of the Institutional Program for Continuing Education for Educators (PISD 2), coordinated by the educator Rachel Dantas, advisor to the directors of the CECs. The objective is to develop systematic meetings of formative actions in education for managers of the public network of Natal (RN), Macaíba (RN) and Serrinha (BA), responsible for the direction of partner schools of the Scientific Education Project, leading them to build and to develop a democratic management work project in its schools, integrated into the training of its teachers and the attendance of students in the CECs.
