Interferences in the class: teachers’ dynamic and perceptions

Lemes, Mariana Martins

doi:10.1590/1980-6248-2018-0097EN

Mariana Martins Lemes

Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo – SEE/SP; Coordenadoria Pedagógica, Centro de Ensino Fundamental Anos Finais – Coped/Cefaf, São Paulo, SP, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1046-0521, mariana.martins.lemes@gmail.com.

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1046-0521

Author’s contact:
Pedagógica da Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo. Praça da República, 53, Centro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 01045-903

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Responsible Editor: Ana Lúcia Guedes Pinto. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0857-8187

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Figure 1
Regional directories of education (DRE – municipal system), on the left, and the teaching directories (DE – state system), on the right

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Table 1
Main research materials

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Excerpt 01 (pE2): the school has an absurd amount of projects’ talent shows’ ethnic-racial questions’ three things are going on right now ’ I’m also involved in three project things at school ’ [...] so many things/ this week ’ on the second is the day of/ the talent show’ on the fourth is parents’ meeting ’ on the other week, on the tenth is circus day / circus the whole day ((other participant teachers laugh)) ’ and I also have the radio project the newspaper project ((laughs)) ’ and I am in the middle of all this’ (28 set. 2013)

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Excerpt 02 (pM3): my::: (+) my coordinator threatened me ((laughs)) if I gave the/ I approached her and said “on the fifth we have classes, right? It is school year” ’ because the tests were over, the saresp24 was over right ’ no student will come anymore’ and she said “ you won’t teach on the fifth” ’ and I said “why?” ’ “no’ because if you teach on the fifth someone will denounce you and they won’t like you” I said “but where does it say that I can’t??” ’ “no, in December you can’t register students’ absence” (+) and I said “how come?” ’ “no, you can’t. Don’t you do that ”(December 17th, 2011)

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Excerpt 03 (pF1): saresp also ‘got in the way’ ((teachers pC1 and pM1, nod in agreement)) because saresp is a week (without classes) ((laughing))(pK1): there are no classes(pF1): only the students (at) saresp’ so’(Dec. 8th. 2010)

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Excerpt 04 (pK1): up to December twenty two’ is a school day (+) on paper’ right? ((teachers nod in agreement)) (December 8th, 2010)

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Excerpt 05 (pK1): no’ because you know’ when November comes it is complicated as much as October you know ’ so(pA2): school stops in October and doesn’t return anymore ’ only in February(pK2): yeah there is that(September, 28th, 2013)

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Excerpt 06 (pL2): I had to convoke ’ it was a suggestion of pK1 so that they could come the day after the cultural fair because they normally don’t go anymore ’ [...] they came and I cried happy tears ’ “ah’ you don’t know how important you are” ’ and it was nice’ it was the last day/ they did a metacognition of module four and a final dissertation and/ and the metacognition of the didactic sequence after ’ puff’ the whole day (December, 17th, 2011)

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Excerpt 07 (pK1): the 5th grade b’ I had a::: like’ I wasn’t going to have classes with them so I asked a teacher to take it and do it so it was a chaos / ((laughs)) the final product/ ask another one to do it is silly’ better (+) ((shaking head negatively )) because then you skip such an important phase of the work and :::’ then they just wrote anything to get rid of it ( December 16th, 2010)

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Excerpt 08 (pK1): there were two 8th grades that I/ that I worked’ with four weekly classes’ but as pL2 is:: in the first semester I:::: I only had two classes’ so in every free class that I could enter I entered and worked with this ’ (December 17th, 2011)

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Excerpt 09 (pE2): the activity-hour which is a time in which we have to plan, to organize ourselves, does not happen anymore in my/ in my week’ because my whole period is used with the classes(November, 09th, 2013)

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Excerpts 10 and 11 (pC1): there were a series of (+) external problems that hindered the enactment and the 8th grades were even more troubled’ I took the work up to the point I could’ [...] the students that (they were all creating a wall32)’:: I even told pS1 that I couldn’t do it’ ‘cause I was having insomnia’ then I couldn’t develop(December 8th,2010 – our highlight) (pK1): I’ll finish on November 29/I WON’T continue in the first week of December ‘cause:: (+) it doesn’t ’ actually’ exist/then I’ll be crazy there:: (+) and the kids won’t go anymore’ then there is a meeting’ and then’ ((intonation indicating that the events keep happening. pL2 agrees with the comment by nodding))(October 26th, 2013- our highlight)

Material	Details	Year
Audio visual registries of teachers’ meetings	30 hours of video with teachers’ statements on the process of putting the didactic sequences into action	2010, 2011, 2013
Characterization questionnaires	Filled by the seven participant teachers in the third phase of the research	2013
Interference registries	Filled by five participant teachers in the third phase of the research	2013
Texts created by the secretaries of education and regional directories	Taken from official sites and electronic addresses (blogs and Facebook pages)	2013, 2014, 2015
Decrees, resolutions, and reports	Taken from the sites of the City of São Paulo and the State of São Paulo	2008 – 2016

Excerpt 01

(pE2): the school has an absurd amount of projects’ talent shows’ ethnic-racial questions’ three things are going on right now ’ I’m also involved in three project things at school ’ [...] so many things/ this week ’ on the second is the day of/ the talent show’ on the fourth is parents’ meeting ’ on the other week, on the tenth is circus day / circus the whole day ((other participant teachers laugh)) ’ and I also have the radio project the newspaper project ((laughs)) ’ and I am in the middle of all this’ (28 set. 2013)

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(pM3): my::: (+) my coordinator threatened me ((laughs)) if I gave the/ I approached her and said “on the fifth we have classes, right? It is school year” ’ because the tests were over, the saresp²⁴ 24 T.N.: Saresp stands for “Sistema de Avaliação de Rendimento Escolar do Estado de São Paulo”, the Evaluation System of School Performance in the State of São Paulo. It is a standardized test applied to students on the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th year of Elementary school and the Senior year of High School, on the following themes: Portuguese, Mathematics, Human Sciences, Natural Sciences, and composition. was over right ’ no student will come anymore’ and she said “ you won’t teach on the fifth” ’ and I said “why?” ’ “no’ because if you teach on the fifth someone will denounce you and they won’t like you” I said “but where does it say that I can’t??” ’ “no, in December you can’t register students’ absence” (+) and I said “how come?” ’ “no, you can’t. Don’t you do that ”(December 17^th,2011)

Excerpt 03
(pF1): saresp also ‘got in the way’ ((teachers pC1 and pM1, nod in agreement)) because saresp is a week (without classes) ((laughing)) (pK1): there are no classes (pF1): only the students (at) saresp’ so’ (Dec. 8t^h. 2010)

Excerpt 04
(pK1): up to December twenty two’ is a school day (+) on paper’ right? ((teachers nod in agreement)) (December 8^th, 2010)

Excerpt 05
(pK1): no’ because you know’ when November comes it is complicated as much as October you know ’ so (pA2): school stops in October and doesn’t return anymore ’ only in February (pK2): yeah there is that (September, 28^th, 2013)

Excerpt 06

(pL2): I had to convoke ’ it was a suggestion of pK1 so that they could come the day after the cultural fair because they normally don’t go anymore ’ [...] they came and I cried happy tears ’ “ah’ you don’t know how important you are” ’ and it was nice’ it was the last day/ they did a metacognition of module four and a final dissertation and/ and the metacognition of the didactic sequence after ’ puff’ the whole day (December, 17^th, 2011)

Excerpt 07

(pK1): the 5^th grade b’ I had a::: like’ I wasn’t going to have classes with them so I asked a teacher to take it and do it so it was a chaos / ((laughs)) the final product/ ask another one to do it is silly’ better (+) ((shaking head negatively )) because then you skip such an important phase of the work and :::’ then they just wrote anything to get rid of it ( December 16^th,2010)

Excerpt 08
(pK1): there were two 8^th grades that I/ that I worked’ with four weekly classes’ but as pL2 is:: in the first semester I:::: I only had two classes’ so in every free class that I could enter I entered and worked with this ’ (December 17^th, 2011)

Excerpt 09
(pE2): the activity-hour which is a time in which we have to plan, to organize ourselves, does not happen anymore in my/ in my week’ because my whole period is used with the classes (November, 09^th, 2013)

Excerpts 10 and 11

(pC1): there were a series of (+) external problems that hindered the enactment and the 8^th grades were even more troubled’ I took the work up to the point I could’ [...] the students that (they were all creating a wall³² 32 The teacher refers to an established practice in the school in which the students decide to collectively miss class (the whole group) in school days in last bimester, when the number of direct actions in the school increases. )’:: I even told pS1 that I couldn’t do it’ ‘cause I was having insomnia’ then I couldn’t develop
(December 8^th,2010 – our highlight)

(pK1): I’ll finish on November 29/I WON’T continue in the first week of December ‘cause:: (+) it doesn’t ’ actually’ exist/then I’ll be crazy there:: (+) and the kids won’t go anymore’ then there is a meeting’ and then’ ((intonation indicating that the events keep happening. pL2 agrees with the comment by nodding))
(October 26^th, 2013- our highlight)

[1] Author’s contact:
Pedagógica da Secretaria de Educação do Estado de São Paulo. Praça da República, 53, Centro, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 01045-903

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