O Institutional Teaching Initiation Scholarship Program (PIBID) exists since 2007. And, in a simplified way, it aims to value and support teachers in training, especially in the first years of graduation.
To this end, it integrates higher education and basic education, inserting university students into the environment of public schools, through institutional projects carried out by higher education institutions (HEIs).
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PIBID is part of the Ministry of Education's (MEC) National Teacher Training Policy. Its purpose is to enable students in the first half of degree courses to get closer to the reality of public basic education schools.
To this end, PIBID makes available, through a selection process, scholarships to students enrolled in undergraduate courses in higher education institutions, public or private (not-for-profit), that develop the project together with networks of teaching.
According to information on the website of Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), “the projects must promote the initiation of the student in the school environment in the first half of the course, aiming to stimulate, from the beginning of his training, observation and reflection on professional practice in the daily life of public schools of education basic”.
According to the last public notice published (No. 7/2018), the objectives of the program are:
To participate in the Institutional Teaching Initiation Scholarship Program, higher education institutions send to Capes teaching initiation projects, in accordance with the selection notices published by the organ.
These projects may encompass several teaching initiation nuclei. The nuclei are made up of students (between 24 and 30), school teachers (three) and a teacher from the HEI.
Each of them is divided into subprojects according to the curricular component of basic education, for which the student is in training. The public notice published in 2018 covered the areas listed below:
Art
Biology
Sciences
Physical education
Philosophy
Physical
Geography
History
Spanish language
English language
Portuguese language
Mathematics
Chemical
Sociology
Pedagogy
Intercultural Indigenous Degree
Bachelor's Degree in Rural Education
Public or private higher education institutions may participate, as long as they are non-profit. In addition, the degree courses offered must meet the requirements of the selection notice.
Some of these criteria are the General Course Index (IGC), which needs to be equal to or greater than 3. The courses contemplated by the programs must also have a Course Concept (CC) or Preliminary Course Concept (CPC) equal to or greater than 3.
The selected HEIs receive a share of scholarships. Scholarship holders participating in each project are chosen through selection processes carried out by each institution. They may contain, for example, a written test (objective and discursive) and even a writing test.
Participating schools are selected by the education network itself.
All the details can be checked in the last public notice published: ( http://www.capes.gov.br/images/stories/download/editais/01032018-Edital-7-2018-PIBID.pdf)
Capes currently offers four types of scholarships to students participating in PIBID. All of them are paid by Capes, directly to the scholarship holders, through bank credit. Check the modalities:
Introduction to teaching – intended for undergraduate students participating in the subprojects. The monthly amount, during the term of the scholarship, is R$ 400.00.
supervising teacher – aimed at basic education teachers, from public schools, who supervise between five and ten students participating in PIBID. In this case, the grant will be R$ 765.00.
area coordinator – specific for the students who coordinate the subprojects. The value is R$ 1,400.00.
Institutional coordination – finally, this modality is intended for the undergraduate student who coordinates the institutional project for initiation into teaching at the HEI. For each project, only one scholarship is offered, in the amount of R$ 1,500.00 per month.
Regarded as one of the largest teaching support programs, PIBID is also a fundamental part of the daily life of schools. As the program takes place in the first years of training, it is essential for establishing a professional future. In addition to being a very strong link between the Academy and the community.
According to Aurélio Sampaio, Bachelor of Philosophy and graduate student at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás (PUC Goiás), “the PIBID was certainly a differential in my training, as it put me in contact with different realities of different schools, in which I was able to observe how the teaching of Philosophy can be managed in different situations”.
As an undergraduate student, he was approved in the selection process to work on his HEI project and participated in Philosophy classes in public schools as a listener to understand the teaching process in the High school.
For those who are curious about the selections made by the HEIs, Aurélio Sampaio clarified that his selection process for the program consisted of a written test, with discursive questions and the production of a brief essay.
Topics related to PIBID are on the agenda of various meetings and forums, where papers are presented and experiences are exchanged. The themes are extremely relevant and guide various practices, in addition to enabling numerous research topics.
In early 2018, an email sent to students participating in PIBID at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), sparked rumors about the end of the program, which is the largest aimed at training teachers under MEC management.
At the time, Capes stated that the email referred to the notice opened in 2014 and whose validity ended in February 2018. Then, in early March, the agency published a new notice, offering 45,000 vacancies for the program.
However, this has no date to have the final result released. Thus, PIBID currently does not have scholarships in effect, since those regulated by the 2014 public notice were not extended until the publication of the final result of the public notice published in March 2018.
Even taking into account the current financial obstacles that Brazil is going through, this decrease in pace of PIBID was not seen with good eyes, both by the HEIs, as well as by the students and the public network of teaching.
This is because schools, which do their annual planning in January and February, may have pedagogical activities impaired due to the temporary suspension of the program.
A related program, and also aimed at undergraduate students, the pedagogical residency will be held for the first time in 2018. It consists of a national supervised internship program, precisely for these students.
Currently, the internship is already mandatory for all undergraduate students, however, the institutions have the autonomy to define the criteria for a minimum workload of 400 hours, required by MEC.
The first notice, published in March 2018, offered 45,000 vacancies, intended only for graduates in training from the fifth period, or second half of graduation.
In addition to the guidance counselor at the educational institution, the student will have a preceptor, who will be a basic education teacher working at the school where he/she will undertake the internship.
