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About PED Brasil
PED Brasil is a face-to-face lato sensu postgraduate course in teaching mathematics or natural sciences for elementary, middle and high school teachers. The program is designed to be completed in 2 years during which participants engage 10 course modules, totaling 360 hours of study. The most typical structure for offering PED involves a partnership between municipal and state departments of education, interested in offering the program to teachers in their systems, and local higher education institutions, who support faculty trained to offer the PED program.
PED Brasil is the result of an intense collaboration between Brazilian higher education institutions and international research centers and currently has a network of 22 universities across 15 Brazilian states. The curriculum is based on (national and international) research on the latest practices in teaching and learning mathematics and natural sciences and its efforts are focused on building equitable classrooms.
PED was initially developed by a team of professors and researchers based at Stanford University, at the Lemann Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazilian Education at Stanford and at Instituto Canoa, and currently is composed of a network of public and private higher education institutions throughout Brazil. The first HEI trainers were prepared in 2016. They were instrumental in offering the first PED classes in 2017. Since then, more than 600 school teachers have completed the program.
The PED curriculum and implementation process incorporates teacher education program principles associated with the internationally recognized Stanford University Teacher Education Program (STEP), These principles are:
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Connection between theory and practice
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Joint work between universities and Basic Education schools
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Equity with excellence
Curriculum coherence
The PED Brasil team, led by Rachel Lotan, Professor Emerita at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education, developed the specialization course curriculum specifically for the Brazilian context. This curriculum consists of ten courses and a mentoring program.
The higher education institutions associated with the program meet periodically to jointly plan each of the classes of the specialization program, in line with the common curriculum of PED Brasil. This on-going cross-institutional interaction contributes to high quality standards of implementation for each class, increasing curricular coherence, and deepening adaptation to local contexts.
If you are from a department of education or a university interested in finding out more about the program, please contact us.
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