CONTINUOUS TRAINING OF TEACHERS DURING EMERGENCY ONLINE EDUCATION: training objectives and teaching narratives of the teachers of the State Network of Alagoas.
Continuing Training. TDIC. Emergency Online Teaching. Teaching Digital Skills
Faced with the specificities imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic on education in the 2020 and 2021, the Departments of Education, when designing their teaching and learning strategies, needed to propose strategies for teacher training, especially in order to guarantee the exercise of the profession in the required format, Emergency Online Teaching (EOE). Given this scenario, the research aims to map the continuing education strategy of the State Network of Alagoas adopted during the 2020 and 2021 biennium, especially with regard to the role of Digital Information and Communication Technologies, seeking to answer what is the contribution of these initiatives for the development of digital culture in schools in the face-to-face context of classes. Of a qualitative nature, the methodological path of the research involves documental analysis based on official documents published by the State Department of Education of Alagoas (SEDUC/AL) from the beginning of the pandemic state, until the definitive resumption of face-to-face classes, emphasizing the strategy adopted by the State for the training of its teachers focused on TDIC during the years 2020 and 2021. In addition, aiming at approximation and dialogue with the subjects involved in the training process, the research continues to be anchored in the methodology of (auto)biographical narratives of teachers, through semi-structured interviews with teachers from the State Network of Alagoas, with the geographical area of the city of Maceió, about their training experiences during the years 2020 and 2021 and the applicability of the acquired learning and teaching digital skills developed in this period, as well as in the process of returning face-to-face educational activities.The text is structured starting with a literature review on continuing education and TDIC, the historical view of public training policies for TDIC in the country and the main matrices of digital teaching skills. Next, it deepens in continuing education during the EOE period. Afterwards, the documentary data are analyzed, describing the EOE in the Alagoas Network in dialogue with the theoretical references. Finally, in a chapter still under development, the teaching narratives of teachers from the State Network of Alagoas will be discussed.