Tutoring in teacher training
The Educational Tutoring Program, implemented in 2015 in Manaus (AM), the third largest educational management in Brazil, aims to strengthen educational practices through in-service teacher training through peer tutoring. The proposal is for tutor and teacher to build together pedagogy practices that are more in tune with the needs of the school and the specifics of the teacher.
All tutoring is done in service, observing and dialoguing with the teacher's daily life and his professional context. The tutor receives specific training and weekly accompanies up to eight teachers at a time, throughout the three years of probationary internship. Fundamentally, the tutor works as a mirror so that the teacher himself can analyze his practice, in addition to providing him with tools to change what he deems necessary.
The process begins with the training of the tutor. They train in a specific methodology and also do field training. Once these tutors are trained, they go to the field to study the school, the territory and meet the teacher they will tutor to carry out an initial diagnosis about classroom management, teaching practices, planning and evaluation.
In this process, they also include the teacher's self-assessment and the focus he intends to give to his training. From this, the tutor identifies the points that need to be worked on and the pair develops training actions.
The observation of the teacher's practice in the classroom is also combined between the two and can be done in several ways, such as through transcriptions or filming. Observation serves both for diagnosis and for monitoring the evolution of the training actions adopted.
The entire tutoring program follows deadlines and goals, with the objective of improving the training of this educator and, mainly, measuring whether the strategies adopted had an impact on the quality of student learning.