A teacher for 14 years in public schools in São Paulo, Débora Garofalo is a finalist for the international Global Teacher Prize. She is a scholarship holder of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), autarchy linked to the Ministry of Education, and is the first Brazilian among the 50 best teachers in the world. Currently, the award reaches professors from 120 countries and the award ceremony will take place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, in March.
To investigate literacy practices in the classroom both conventionally and on the Web, with a focus on research on which Aspects the school environment forms students readers, Débora seeks in the master's degree the change of a paradigm in the teaching-learning of reading.
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The teacher explains that it is important for students, especially in basic education, to be able to read and understand the texts autonomously. “The predominant method in schools is the monological practice of reading, something that lost effectiveness with the arrival of technological advances”, emphasizes Débora.
In her understanding, it is necessary to consider not only text statements and partial understandings, but also the readers, their voices and, above all, that this practice can be dialogical.
“We have estimates of the learning crisis by the World Bank with data from the International Program for Evaluation of Students (Pisa) who report these difficulties, in addition to the lack of interest and commitment to their studies. Therefore, it is essential to review practices and pedagogical practices in search of a meaningful and engaging school environment”, says the teacher.
Débora was nominated for the award for her work with students at the Almirante Ary Municipal Elementary School Palmeiras, in São Paulo, where – in an interdisciplinary way – he worked on encouraging reading (digital genres and stop-motion animations). movement).
In the project, the teacher also used programming and robotics with scrap metal, an action that removed more than a ton of garbage from the streets of the city. According to Débora Garofalo, innovation, creativity, inventiveness, critical and scientific thinking were explored, with an increase in student grades and a decrease in school dropouts.
The Global Teacher Prize is an annual award promoted by the Varkey Foundation – an English institution, based in London, dedicated to improving the standards of education for underprivileged children – which rewards with US$ 1 million the work of the teacher who contributed in a relevant way to the improvement of education. With information from the Ministry of Education.