INNOVATIVE HIGH SCHOOL IN MARANHÃO: NEW CHALLENGES FOR TEACHERS

Abstract

This article is part of the research "Innovative High School Program in Maranhão: training needs of teachers and innovative pedagogical practices in public schools in São Luís" which is in the process of development at the doctoral level. It deals with the implementation, assumptions and propositions of this Program in the State of Maranhão and its impacts on the continuing education of teachers who work in this program. It aims to analyze the implementation of the Program in question from data and official documents, having as a guiding axis the multiple determinations of the socioeconomic context of contemporary society, which has demanded complex educational demands from schools that has been impacting the continuing education of teachers through educational policies and programs implemented by the spheres of government. In this way, the educational reality of Brazilian and Maranhão high schools is discussed, taking as a reference for analysis mainly the results of the Basic Education Development Index – IDEB and the official documents that establish educational policies and programs as a mechanism to improve the quality of education, which require reflections and redirections to the policies of continuing education of teachers,  specifically high school. It is concluded that even with the implementation of this Program in more than 100 municipalities in Maranhão, it has not yet been possible to achieve better results as in the IDEB and the continuing education of teachers for this level of education is still under discussion due to its complexity.