DISTÂNCIA DISTANCE CONTINUING EDUCATION OF TEACHERS

Educação continuada em geral Relatório de pesquisa Investigação científica This paper analyzes the High School Network (EMR – in portuguese Ensino Médio em Rede) – a program of distance and continuing education, in a city of the state of São Paulo, verifying “if ” and “how ” this program contributed to the improvement on the High School education based on the perception of its participants. Methodologically, we chose the study of case, because we want to understand a particular reality (EMR in a particular city), treated as a unit inside a larger system (EMR in the state of São Paulo). The High School Network is a program of distance and continuing education implemented by the Board of Education of the State of São Paulo, in the years of 2004 thru 2006. The program involved, in the researched city, a total of 45 schools and 776 people, whom we interviewed 40 (forty). The majority of the interviewed people said that used what they have learned in the program EMR in their pedagogical practices in the class room, and of these, a group of teachers developed collective projects in their respective schools. This meets the general goal of EMR – improvement on the quality of high school. In this matter, we can conclude that, according to the interviewed participants of EMR, this program supported the innovation of educational practices. Key-words: Distance and continuing education, continuing education of teachers, High