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Continuing Teacher Education. Educational Policies. Literacy Lettering. Field Education. Multiseriate Rooms.
The general objective of the study was to analyze the needs of teacher training to teach literacy in multigrade classes of the Literacy Cycle of rural schools, considering the teacher training policies implemented in the country (1996-2020) and the environment of the Covid-19 pandemic. The study, which is not limited to the investigation of the training needs of teachers, provided the research subjects with a training process of “systematic restitution” (FALS BORDA, 1985), with a view to reflecting on their own needs for teacher training, while at the same time that the co-construction of theoretical-methodological procedures to potentiate the overcoming of their own teaching difficulties/training needs was made possible. The work was part of a Qualitative Research Approach, with a phenomenological foundation, under the Action Research methodology. The procedures for data construction were the Questionnaire, the Semi-structured Interview, the Participant Observation and the Document Analysis. The empirical field was formed by five Municipal Schools, located in the rural area of the municipality of Espírito Santo/RN. The study subjects were seven literacy teachers who work in the aforementioned groups, two pedagogical advisors and five school administrators. Data analysis is based on the principles of Content Analysis. As a result of the first stage of the research, according to the diagnosis of needs, the teachers revealed training needs, such as: in the theory-practice articulation to teach literacy; diagnosis and analysis of writing levels in the context of written language psychogenesis; heterogeneity of classes; planning, development and evaluation of didactic situations of appropriation of reading and writing, including remote teaching; mastery of the use of technology in emergency remote teaching; lack of connectivity and students' lack of interest; school-family relationship; child conception of/in the countryside; and specific knowledge of Rural Education to teach literacy. In the second stage of the research, the Formative Action was constituted, aimed at the teachers of the study, having as its theme the "Didactical-pedagogical action for the construction of practices to teach literacy in multigrade classes, of the Literacy Cycle, considering the pandemic context" . In this direction, the programmatic contents of the training were built from the themes that emerged from the research and constituted the aforementioned training needs. The methodological procedures of the training were organized in reflective sessions of reading and theory-practice articulation, developed weekly and fortnightly, in a virtual environment. The evaluation was carried out from records in class diaries, reconstruction of practices and shared dialogue in the meetings held. The Formative Action was well evaluated, producing a more in-depth theoretical-methodological knowledge in overcoming teachers' difficulties to teach literacy. The results confirmed the thesis that continuous training actions are necessary for teachers to reflect on their own training needs, contributing to overcoming the difficulties encountered in the development of literacy practice, in multigrade classes of Rural Education, in pandemic times, considering that current teacher training policies have not satisfactorily enabled literacy teachers, working in these groups, to teach literacy by writing.