Estratégias para disseminar a Metodologia de Aprendizagem baseada em Projetos na Comunidade IFPB

A clear question related to the growing gap between the educational model still in force in Brazil, as being passive, content-based and teacher-centered, against the expectations of students of Z and alpha generation, as well as the demands of XXI century labor market, which requires innovation, creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, leadership, maximization of social and cultural interactions, has led to high rates of demotivation and consequent school dropout of students. The intense experience of three months in Finland, as a result of the participation in the Teachers for the Future 26/2015 SETEC / MEC / CNPq program, provided the author with a vast and transforming learning reach, as well as the possibility of observing in practice how the areas of collaborative and blended learning as well as educational technologies, besides being possible to be applied, could be improved and expanded. Returning to Brazil, more specifically to the IFPB classrooms, aroused the interest in disseminating this knowledge and experiences to IFPB teachers and managers, using different strategies described in this article. The actions that have been coordinated in the IFPB are included in the teaching, research and extension triad. In teaching, the experience in Finland has provided a significant change in how the learning process is conducted in the courses that the author is responsible for, as well as the possibility of offering training to teachers, managers and students on active learning methodologies, collaborative and social tools and formative and diagnostic evaluation. In the research, there are two ongoing projects, one of which is the development of the PrBL Tool for planning, execution and evaluation of Project-Based Learning, and the second that seeks to analyze the use of projects by IFPB teachers from the perspective of 21st Century competences and the Project-Based Learning premises. In the scope of extension, a project is underway for the construction and strengthening of a Collaborative Network of 21st Century Educators, composed of teachers and managers of federal institutions and NGOs. All the ongoing actions are results of IFPB’s calls and have shown significant results so far. The funding raised in the calls for proposals will promote scientific exchange through the presentation of papers at international conferences, as well as in the implementation of partnerships between Brazil and Finland researchers and practitioners for the dissemination of the educational experiences and findings.