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TV Escola (School TV) - Brazil


Programme Summary: 
This Ministry of Education of Brazil Distance Learning Secretariat programme uses television to provide training and refresher courses for elementary and high school professors. Its objective is to enrich the process of teaching in order to improve the quality of education in Brazil. TV Escola is meant to help teachers who work in urban and rural schools with more than 100 students. It was launched as a pilot project in 1995; one year later, it began to operate throughout the country.
Communication Strategies: 

A TV channel broadcast by satellite to participating schools. Airing seven days a week, the broadcasts cover specific components of national curriculum programmes, including Mathematics, Portuguese, Science, History, Geography, Physical Education, Art, Music and Dance, Ethics, Cultural Plurality, Health, Environment, and Sexual Education. The two-hour transmissions are repeated three times a day. On Saturdays, the programme Vendo e Aprendendo (Seeing and Learning) is broadcast along with suggestions about how to use the video series that TV Escola distributes to schools. Specifically, this programme emphasises ways of using the videos in the classroom while maintaining an interdisciplinary focus.


In addition, radio, printed materials (magazines, texts, notebooks, and guidelines), and several telephone and fax lines are used in interactive training programmes.

Development Issues: 

Education.

Partner Text: 

Ministry of Education of Brazil Distance Learning Secretariat.

Contact Info: 
TV Escola
Ministry of Education of Brazil Distance Learning Secretariat.
Source: 

TV Escola site.

Source URL:
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/122415