Abstract
"In a globalized world, marked by the constant and fast technologicalinnovation, there can be no place for inefficient schools or badly prepared and unmotivated teachers ". (Marques, 2003, p.U).
I was inspired by this assertive motto by professor Ramiro Marques, because I consider it greatly adjusted to my vision of the world.
Looking at the episodes of my professional story referred in this reflexive report, I feel them per si as discovery and learning opportunities in my professional journey.
In fact, in all my professional life I have experienced moments of insecurity and even hesitation. However, I have always been guided by the quality of omnipresent motivation. It was, undoubtedly, the real lever for the consummation of my work. And the reflection that this job has allowed me tunes with this same diapason. Effectively, it will only be possible to build a successful school if the leaderships, to which I have remained linked for about twenty years, promote constant confidence habits, tied to a valorization of collaborative work among the different educational "actors", so as to making the school an enjoyable place, of cordial labor relationships and a constant pedagogical performance.
After all, talking and thinking about Education means, among other things, to talk and think about a set of actors who need to interact in order to achieve the ultimate purpose of educating children and young people of a certain society.
Of course this human dimension of experiencing school has been the success key to my longevity in our school group. Effectively, the atmosphere of a real family that daily goes by has been the real leitmotiv for the success of the path we walk. Only that way can we become even more proficient!
This way, this report intends to provide the testimony of my experience in an
ambivalent dimension: the one that embraced teaching as an intrinsic call but to whom the sortilege of circumstances wanted to "wear" the manager suit.
In this context I have structured this reflexive report in two different parts: in the first part I will present a conceptual and theoretical background about the organization "School", highlighting the bureaucratic/rational and cultural models, without refraining from theorizing a little, the central area of it - the educational success and the reinforcement of students learning; in the second part I will try to review important historical milestones of public schools in Portugal regarding the fight against academic failure, wanting, likewise, to give the perspective of the education policy that our school group has adopted, aiming to become a successful school.
| Date of Award | 19 May 2017 |
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| Original language | Portuguese |
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| Supervisor | Carlos Estevão (Supervisor) |
Designation
- Mestrado em Ciências da Educação