摘要:The massification of the Portuguese school in the last decades of the twentieth
century entails quantitative and qualitative transformations that do not address the
inadequacy of its organizational structures to deal with the new problems and the
new goals posed to this school. The introduction of a set of curricular changes has
shown, on one hand, the impossibility of schools being changed by decree and on
the other hand the resilience of a school model based on transmission and served by
professionals socialized in a culture of individualist teaching. The realization that
teachers are capable of collaborating on projects and that the renovation of practices
do not belong to the "decree logic", but can be part of an "interactive
professionalism", have been stimulating team work. These form of organizing the
work in schools demands, if they are to be effects in classrooms, institutional
support that allows flexible grouping of students, the development of integrated
curriculum governance projects, and the formation of multidisciplinary teams of
teachers. At the same time, the educational team model suggests a diversity of
projects in the organization and intermediary governance of schoo
关键词:school governance, team work, educational inovation.