Monitoring program as a strategy of permanence and success for visually impaired students at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí: An experience report

Abstract

The monitoring program can be characterized as an institutional strategy to improve the teaching and learning process, through a student activity that favors curricular integration in its different aspects. In this way, the research aimed to analyze the development of the monitoring program implemented on a campus of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Piauí (IFPI) as a permanence strategy for visually impaired students. This is an experience report qualitative type, involving documentary research. Initially, monitoring edicts elaborated by the Support Center for People with Special Needs (NAPNE) of this campus, during the period from 2017 to 2019, were analyzed, as well as the policies and regulations that guided its elaboration. Then, the relevance of the monitoring program for the training of visually impaired students was verified, based on the activity reports filled out by monitors and assisted students. The survey results point that the edicts that regulate the program have been perfected over the years, and that monitors are essential in the strategic accessibility plan for visually impaired students. Besides that, other gains in the training of students were observed with the realization of the monitoring program, such as the improvement of academic performance, the access to teaching and learning experiences, the dialogue, the socialization and human development.