PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATORS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION: teacher training for the use of digital technologies
Continuing education; TDIC; Pedagogical Coordinators; Pandemic.
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 and teachers, 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 coordination. 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. With the following specific objectives: diagnosing the training needs related to the TDIC of the pedagogical coordinators; to develop training for the pedagogical coordinators, based on the training needs identified in the diagnosis; address 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 Network of Parnamirim. The study had as reference the authors BUZATO (2006), FORMOSINHO (2002), PIMENTA (1996), SARMENTO (2000). The analyzed data indicated contributions to the practice of the pedagogical coordinator, with regard to the use of digital tools, as well as the carrying out of training actions in the teaching units of Early Childhood Education of the education network, for the use of digital technologies. As the beginning of training, the inclusion of the training proposal in the Plan of Action of the Municipal Education Network of Parnamirim/RN is pointed out. It is like an e-book product with a didactic guide with the training course proposal.