Teacher education - Implications in the evaluation of basic education - IDEB - A case study in the south region of Brazil

This paper have as a main focus the analisis of the situation of the teachers of the municipal school system trying to identify relations between the education and the results of the national evaluation of Basic Education –IDEB-. Previous studies have indicated that the objectives proposed by LDB-96 ( Law of Guidelines and Bases of National Education) have not been achieved and that the attempts of doing it resulted in emergencial programs of low quality. The study looks a sample of municipalities of the three states of the South Region , Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul. Trying to identify the level of teacher education, the modality of the course done and the form of continuing education adopted by the municipality with the objective of relating it to the results of evaluation. The results indicated  that the majority of the teachers have a higher education diploma (82.8%) this education was done in the presencial modality (75.7%) and activities of continuing education are common in the municipalities studied. These activities are not expressed directly in the results of the IDEB.