The role of the pedagogical coordinator in the ongoing professional development of teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic

Resumo

This paper proposes a reflection on the attributions of the pedagogical coordinator, in particular that of proposing continuing education for the team of teachers in their school unit, during remote teaching caused by the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic. Therefore, the text of this research has a bibliographic survey done to define the pedagogical coordinator's attributions, regulatory documents of the public education networks during the pandemic used to understand the school context during the period in question and data collected by an online questionnaire elaborated for this purpose and answered by professionals working in the pedagogical coordination of municipal, state, federal and private networks. The sampling of the questionnaires in accordance with the bibliography studied brings as the main result that the coordinator still faces several difficulties to promote continuing education in their school units and that the pandemic period added even more work overload and several other obstacles to the process.