Gestão educacional em tempos de Covid-19: as experiências da Secretaria Municipal de Educação em Santa Rita - PB

Abstract

The COVID -19 pandemic, which has affected the world since the beginning of 2020, demanded changes in the area of Education. In Brazil, in general, remote teaching was chosen, which demanded a lot of efforts, particularly from managersand teachers. To reflect on some of these effects, this study aims to analyze thechallenges and potential faced by a Department of Education during the Covid- 19 pandemic. As specific objectives, the following stand out: to present legal andconceptual reflections on the role of educational management, in a democratic perspective, and to reflect on the work of teacher training for the use of digital technologies for remote teaching. Therefore, a field research was carried out withthe Department of Education of a municipality in the Metropolitan Region of JoãoPessoa - PB, in which a semi-structured questionnaire was applied containing 5 questions (4 open and 1 for scale marking from 1 to 5) with 8 managers. The survey results show that educational management needed to reinvent its practices, methodologies and work approaches, in the most varied aspects, including pedagogical planning, monitoring student learning and communityinvolvement with the school. It was identified that the teacher's work, under the guidance of the school management, underwent several changes within a contextof uncertainty, lack of public policies and government actions that offered technological support, financial resources and training for education professionals. Therefore, it is concluded that the national public education policies, in the Brazilian context, were insufficient to meet the educational demands of the country's school population, in the Pandemic. The actions of themunicipality's educational management, analyzed in the research, brought somepossibilities for coping with the crisis caused by the social distance between teachers, students, and the school environment, enabling reinvention, overcoming and problem solving, by collectively aligning objectives and byoffering continuing education processes and technical training on the use of digital technologies for remote learning and community service through digital means.