Lou like "luar" (moonlight) (in a window seat)

Abstract

About the role of masters – in these and other processes of creation and innovation – Maria Helena da Rocha Pereira spoke to us in 2006 (“Read the great Portuguese authors, it is with them that we learn to write”, interview published in n.º 36, autumn 2009, from Palavras magazine): “A teacher’s greatest pleasure is to have students who accompany him in their enthusiasm, in their taste for studying, and I was so lucky.” Professors José Pinto Lopes and Helena Santos Silva speak of this enthusiasm and pleasure in this issue's interview, who argue that 'we should celebrate and make visible the efforts of students'. Giving students a voice, in an active and interactive process that results in significant and permanent changes in knowledge, skills, attitudes, beliefs. Change, showing what the student is capable of. And showing that it is possible to make an accessible formative assessment, with little effort – that is a master.
Other masters show us how to deal with change, diversity and uncertainty, in a world where time is not suspended: Joana Batalha, Maria Lobo, Antónia Estrela and Bruna Bragança show how the results obtained through a diagnostic instrument created within the scope of a project (aimed at assessing, in a school context, skills in the domains of linguistic awareness, emerging literacy and reading and writing) make it possible to identify areas of priority intervention in learning to read and write that can inform intervention in classroom.