WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOL MANAGERS: DEMOCRATIC MANAGEMENT AND THE PEDAGOGICAL DIMENSION

Abstract

This article is the result of a training experience, as external consultants of the Municipal Department of Education – SME- São Paulo- Brazil, addressed to managers of Basic Education schools in a period of 12 months. The main objective is to present how the training meetings, called workshops, aligned with service shifts, provided the opportunity to strengthen the cooperative and participatory interaction of these school managers and how, through collective and private experiences, the group involved prepared action plans. and monitoring student learning. To this end, the training highlighted the normative documents of the SME-SP and was anchored in the thinking of authors such as Vieira (2005; 2009) and Dalcorso (2007), who postulate on the management action in the school environment. Some reflexive strategies used in the meetings were described, related to the attributions of the school manager and the learning cycles, in the terms of the SME-SP curriculum. In addition, reports were presented on the challenges faced by managers regarding school organization, in the light of the principles of democratic management and integral education. We consider the workshops relevant to the training of managers, both from the point of view of those who conducted them and those who participated, as they translated into a privileged space for dialogue aimed at the innovation of school and pedagogical management, as well as the transformation of reality.

Keywords: School manager; training workshops; Learning follow-up. School management