As práticas supervisivas e sua influência nas práticas docentes

: a perceção dos atores

Abstract

The word Supervision and its need are disseminated in our society, what one notices through the media which report them related to several areas namely economy, justice or education. What concerns the last area, the accomplishment of the supervisory practises are recommended to the country’s school by extern evaluation reports, which are supported by several national and international studies that show the advantages of its implementation in the teacher’s professional development. Even so, teachers show a huge unease when one approaches the topic and proposes its implementation. This unease, which comes from several factors, is also associated to the type of teachers’ professional culture present in the different schools and also to the associations made to the word Supervision. The purpose of this study is to understand what teachers from an school think about pedagogical supervision and analysing how it influences their teaching sessions. In order to do this, one carried out a mixed nature case study, performing interviews and a questionnaire to the school administrators and to the teachers who teach in the basic and secondary levels from that school, focused in both qualitative and quantitative information for further analysis. From the study carried out, one implies that all the stakeholders consider an increase of collaborative and reflexive practises among teachers through the implementation of the supervisory process which, according to teachers and school directors, takes to, consequently, the improvement of the teachers teaching practises in the school where the case study was performed. Admitting that one cannot include any other results in this case study because one did not include data from the Teaching Sessions Observation and the students’ analysis and results, and finally because the supervisory process is in the second of three years, which supports a new case study performed to A.E.C.B. after three years of implementation – at the end of the next school year.

Date of Award	22 Sept 2017
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria do Céu Roldão (Supervisor)