Permanence and success actions during the covid-19 pandemic period for students of technical high school at IFSC - Florianópolis Campus:

an experience report

Abstract

Dropping out of school has been a recurrent theme at all levels of education. To face it, many institutions define actions and strategies to promote access and permanence of students in school. In 2019, it has been constituted the Commission for Monitoring the Actions of Permanence and Success of Students, of Departamento Acadêmico de Linguagem, Tecnologia, Educação e Ciência, at Instituto Federal de Santa Catarina (IFSC), Campus Florianópolis, based on its strategic planning. With the covid-19 pandemic, the actions of this Commission turned exclusively to monitoring the participation of students in the initial semesters of integrated high school in non-face-to-face activities. Thus, this paper aims to report the experience of the above Commission's work in assisting students with difficulties in accessing non-face-to-face activities between 2020 and 2021. The Commission's actions included: survey of students with difficulties, contact with these students and their families and referrals to different situations. Of 752 students enrolled in these semesters, 49 had difficulties, due to lack of equipment, lack of access to the internet, the need for printed material or other specific difficulties. For these situations, guidance was given to students/relatives to obtain Emergency Assistance for Internet access, campaigns for the donation of equipment and preparation of printed material were promoted. Although partially effective, these actions reinforced the need for broader institutional debate and discussion about educational policies.