Encouragement for students to become teachers

Attract undergraduate students to become teachers in Brazilian public basic education schools, aiming to improve the quality of teaching in the country and value its teachers. To this end, the Education Committee (CE) of the Federal Senate approved, this Tuesday (7), a bill (PL 3,824/2023) that creates the National Policy for Induction into Teaching in Basic Education.

Authored by Senator Flávio Arns (PSDB-PR), with reporting by Senator Professor Dorinha Seabra (União-TO), the matter – which was amended to give it priority status in national educational policy – ​​will still be submitted to a second round of voting, before proceeding for consideration by the Chamber of Deputies.

Among the measures provided for in the text approved by the EC, the following stand out:

• Improvement of competitions and recruitment and selection programs for new teachers;
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• Involvement of undergraduates in research and extension activities in basic education schools;
• Development of public campaigns to publicize, especially in universities, the characteristics of career, financial and intellectual benefits, professional development perspectives, among others;
• Offering scholarships for pedagogy and degree courses, especially in areas where there is a shortage of teachers;
• Incentives for students to participate in activities in basic education schools located in rural areas, remote regions or with specific educational challenges.

A consistent response to the teaching ‘blackout’, as Arns coined it, to mention the chronic lack of basic education professionals, whether due to low salaries, lack of prestige or incentive to the activity, aging of professionals in activity or early abandonment of the career. According to the senator from Paraná, in addition to increasing remuneration, the promotion of teaching in basic education will focus on students who present better academic performances, through the offer of incentives or intellectual rewards and professionals.

According to the author of the project, “we understand that it is possible and necessary to improve other practices in education systems in terms of attracting and valuing teachers beyond remuneration. This is because, even if they are eventually excellent and well-paid teachers, if we place them in bad systems, the system will most likely beat them.”

In the opinion of the rapporteur, Professor Dorinha, the current low demand for teaching would be related to training, career and remuneration, which motivated her to classify, as priority or complementary, the actions related to the established policy, with the aim of directing the action of the public power towards its fullest Implementation.

“We also seek to give priority to training strategies that take place in the public system, full-time and in person, in in order to further qualify the implementation of the policy, as well as to expand its social reach”, concluded the senator in her report.