THE PANDEMIC OF COVID-19: The impacts and trends in the process of continuing teacher education

The article aims to analyze the implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the field of education in the region of Tocantins' Amazon, especially for the process of continuing education for teachers in the State Education System. The research is based on historical dialectical materialism, having as reference the bibliographic and documentary research in ordinances, provisional measures, decrees, opinions and other normative mechanisms issued, mainly, by the Ministry of Education, National Council of Education, Government of the State of Tocantins and State Education Council. From a critical perspective, it is assumed that the adoption of public-private partnerships as an educational policy and the expansion of distance education greatly compromises the constitutional principle of democratic management and the quality of education.