Valorização e reconhecimento docente nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental no município de João Pessoa/PB

Abstract

The research addresses a sensitive theme in education, the Valorization and Recognition of Teachers, focusing on teachers from the early years of elementary school of the Municipal Public Network of João Pessoa - Paraíba. The data presented here were collected through a questionnaire directed to 9 teachers from the initial years of a Municipal Elementary School of João Pessoa. When the following data were analyzed: career time, professional achievement, work performance, satisfaction in relation to workload, job security, physical, moral or psychological threat and workplace conditions. Points of appreciation and recognition of the teacher were identified, such as: Autonomy at work, salary, continuing education, curriculum, better professional qualification, heritage infrastructure, materials and as professional dissatisfaction: workload, violence at school, rooms with inadequate number of students, remuneration, lack of material. Thus, the results of this research indicate dissatisfaction in the following aspects: salary, workload and school infrastructures and as professional satisfaction autonomy at work, democratic management. The research seeks a remembrance of laws and struggles so that there is a teacher appreciation and respectable recognition of the Teaching Profession.