This investigation aims at the teaching appreciation. Taking into consideration the multiple determinations in the capitalist society, we produced an analysis from the social conjectures of the country, pointing out the relationship of economic and political order that are of paramount importance for a better comprehension of the object of analysis. We understand the teaching appreciation through two dimensions objective and subjective. The first is related to issues inherent to the teaching profession, such as career, salary, wage floor, work conditions, and initial and continuing training. The second dimension is related to social and professional recognition, and self-realization. In this study, the professional training is anchored in a social and historical comprehension of education, an important guide for an organic and consistent policy of teacher training. Career and wage were other central categories in this study. The issue that guided this research was: the investigation of the possible relation between the teaching appreciation policies in the State of Pará and the training “in office” offered by the National Plan of Basic Education Teaching Training (PARFOR). The study was developed from the critical theoretical-methodological framework that guided the analysis of the economic, political, social, and historical relations in which the object is found, demonstrating the contradictions, performing the relevant mediations to construct and deconstruct the object to finally reach the analysis on the relation between PARFOR in the State of Pará and the teaching appreciation policies. We performed documental and bibliographical material analysis and data collection, and performed field research using, as a data collection tool, the Focal Group with twelve UFPA PARFOR Pedagogy teacher-students, and structured interview with seven PARFOR former teacher-students that work for the State School Network (REE). As a result, the study revealed that the teachers perceive the teaching profession as vocation, even with prevailing issues such as intensification, precarious working conditions, non-professionalization, and teacher devaluation. There is a mismatch between training and appraisal policies, which makes it possible to infer that, although REE's PARFOR graduates have higher education, it is not accompanied by career progression and significant salary improvement, that is, professional appreciation.
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