Coordenadoras pedagógicas da educação infantil: formação para uso das ferramentas digitais

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unexpected challenges to the world. For the professors, such challenges highlighted the need to definitely enter into the use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies – DICT. In view of this, the teachers who exercise the function of pedagogical coordinators had an impact in terms of their responsibility in carrying out training, ensuring a link with the school community, monitoring the teaching and learning process of children, among other tasks. In view of this, a training course was developed for the use of digital technologies for pedagogical coordinators of Early Childhood Education, by the Coordination for the Development of Early Childhood Education (CODEI), of the Municipal Secretary of Education and Culture of Parnamirim/RN. The course was part of this master's research, whose researcher is a technical advisor to the aforementioned coordinator. In this context, the objective was to analyze the contributions of continuing education for the use of digital technologies in the teaching work of the pedagogical coordinator of Early Childhood Education. Having as specific objectives: to diagnose the training needs of the pedagogical coordinators related to TDIC; to develop training for pedagogical coordinators, based on the training needs identified in the diagnosis; point out the possibilities of using digital tools in the daily life of the pedagogical coordinator. It is a qualitative research, with characteristics of an action-research, involving the pedagogical coordinators of Early Childhood Education of the municipal teaching network of Parnamirim/RN. The study was based on the authors Buzato (2006), Formosinho (2002), Pimenta (1996) and Sarmento (2000). The analyzed data indicated contributions to the practice of the pedagogical coordinator regarding the use of digital tools, as well as the carrying out of training actions in the teaching units of Early Childhood Education of the municipal teaching network of Parnamirim/RN, for the use of technologies fingerprints. As a development of training, the inclusion of the training proposal in the Plan of Action of the Municipal Education Network of Parnamirim/RN is highlighted. Finally, as a product, a guiding e-book with the training course proposal.