CURRICULAR UNITS - CHILD CARE

CURRICULAR UNIT - EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95001

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

This curricular unit introduces basic concepts in the field of Earth and Life Sciences.

Become aware (individual and collective) about the world around us and the importance of Man on a sustainable planet.
This scientific basis will enable students to further investigate into several related topics, developing skills to critically select and study different sources of information
Plan and execute pratical activities

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Planet Earth: atmosphere. Greenhouse effect. Depletion of the ozone layer.
2. Earth geological structure. Earthquakes and volcanoes.
3. Lithological cycle. Soil.
4. Life diversity. Levels of organization and classification organisms.
5. Basic characteristics of living organisms. Mechanisms of survival and adaptation to the environment.
6. Basic concepts in Ecology. Terrestrial Biomes
7. Inter and intra-specific relationships. Trophic relationship, symbiosis, competition and predation.
8. Ambience and Nature conservation.

CURRICULAR UNIT - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95002

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

- Provide knowledge, in an integrated and epistemic way, about the historical evolution of the object of study of Developmental Psychology, about the main conceptual frameworks of psychological development and about the specificity of the research methods used by this science;
- Provide the acquisition of knowledge about the major changes in terms of biological, cognitive, emotional and social development from intrauterine life to adolescence;
- To promote reflection on the applicability of the knowledge offered by Developmental Psychology in the optimization of the educational act in different educational contexts;
- Encourage informed analysis of developmental changes and development processes in different ecological contexts;
- Promote reflection on personal and professional development, promoting the acquisition of instrumental, interpersonal and systemic skills necessary for future professional practice in the area of child support.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

I - INTRODUCTION - THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT - CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH:

1. Historical and cultural context of Developmental Psychology.
2. Different perfective of psychological development.
3. Importance of the study of Developmental Psychology and its relation with the support to childhood.
4. Research methods in Developmental Psychology.
5. Current issues in Developmental Psychology.

II – PRE-CHRIST AND POST-CHRISTMAS DEVELOPMENT

1. Intrauterine development.
2. Biological and relational skills of the newborn.
3. The mother-baby interaction, its characteristics and implications.
4. Risk factors and prevention.

III - CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN THE THREE FIRST YEARS OF LIFE

1. Different perspectives of psychological development in this period.
2. Physical and psychomotor development.
3. Cognitive development.
4. socio-affective development.
5. Development of symbolic and communication skills:
5.1. Acquisition and development of language
5.2. Development of ludic activity, symbolic play and drawing

IV - CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN SECOND CHILDHOOD, SCHOOL AGE AND ADOLESCENCE

1. Theoretical perspectives of the psychological development in these periods
2. Physical and psychomotor development.
3. Cognitive and social development.
4. Children with special needs.

V- CONTEXTUAL FACTORS PROMOTING DEVELOPMENT

CURRICULAR UNIT - INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN CHILD CARE

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95003

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

- Relate theoretical frameworks and methodological orientations with the use of ICTs in teaching/learning contexts;
- To problematize the beneficial or perverse effects of the introduction and/or vulgarisation of ICTs (in everyday life, in education);
- Use autonomously and critically computer systems in the production of didactic materials (with text, sound and image);
- Mastering the knowledge and techniques that support the design, production, use and evaluation of multimedia teaching materials;
- Identify the specificity of different ICT products;
- Select the most appropriate auxiliary means from the analysis of the circumstances of the communication situations;
- Use autonomously the digital systems available in the production of multimedia materials (for face-to-face use or distance learning situations);
- Use T.I.C. to streamline work on activities and projects.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

- The “Information Society” - media and globalization.
- Specificity (and complexity) of the technological means available today, of the situations of communication, of the didactics of the areas or disciplines.
- Media teaching: supports, models, speeches, organizations, functions.
- Interactivity specifications.
- Internet in schools: data and information; operative means; security and privacy; resources available for each of the learning areas.
- Software for the production of materials intended for online use.
- Pragmatic and aesthetic aspects of the materials (suitability of the products).
- The computer-centered studio: programs for collecting, processing and conjugating texts, images (drawing, photography, video) and sounds.
- Structure of video speech; from the synopsis to the screenplay, from capturing images to editing.
- Specificity of multimedia discourse (internal and external structure); stages of conception and production.
- Resource Centers: structure, operation.
- Structures of computer systems; digital production.
- Internet: collection, dissemination, provisioning and organization of information.
- Graphic production with T.I.C. (diversity of genres, readability standards, appropriate programs and commands).
- Images and sound (collection, transformation, improvement, editing).
- Digital photography, audio and video.
- Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Movimaker and multimedia: genres/variants; hypertext - links; interactivity.

CURRICULAR UNIT - TEAM DYNAMICS AND TEAMWORK

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95004

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

At the end of the training, students should be able to:

1. Mobilize knowledge about Group concepts and Group Dynamics;
2. Know and understand the functioning of groups, their internal mechanisms, participation and relationships between the elements;
3. Integrate into the group and facilitate the integration of the other elements;
4. Work in groups and in teams;
5. Acquire knowledge about Group Communication and Motivation;
6. Present forms of animation of groups with different ages;
7. Reflect on the importance of interpersonal development in group dynamics;
8. Perspecting the transfer of acquired learning to the professional contexts.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Group concept and associated variables:

1.1. Group - Definition
1.2. The cohesive group;
1.3. Positive and negative behaviors of the individual when inserted in the group;
1.4. Barriers in group communication;
1.5. Group motivation (individual and group needs).

2. Communication in Groups:

2.1. The importance of communication in interpersonal development;
2.2. Communication as a dynamic process: the elements and barriers;
2.3. Forms of communication. The importance of nonverbal language in communication.

3. Groups Dynamics: games

3.1. Specific aspects for group animation with: children, adolescents and adults;
3.2. Example of Games for Specific Aspects: Presentation, Cooperation, Nonverbal Communication, Leadership, Problem Solving, etc.

CURRICULAR UNIT - FUNDAMENTALS OF MATHEMATICS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95006

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

- To understand and use the properties of natural, whole, rational and real numbers;
- Establish order relations between numbers presented in different forms;
- Operate with all kinds of numbers using the properties of the operations in the calculation, and understand their effects on the numbers;
- Use the properties of operations in the simplification of calculations;
- Develop dexterity of mental and written numeracy calculus;
- Translating (numerical) data from a daily situation of verbal language to symbolic and vice versa;
- Solve problems, reason and communicate in numerical contexts;
- Understand and manipulate algebraic expressions containing unknowns;
- Solve problems that are mathematically formulable through: equations of the first degree, inequalities of the first degree, systems of linear equations with two unknowns and equations of the second degree;
- Understand the concept of function and its importance in mathematical analysis;
- Understand and be able to use the concepts of direct proportionality and inverse proportionality.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

I. Natural Numbers

- Dividers and Multiples;
- Prime and Decompositions numbers;
- Greatest Common Divisor of two numbers;
- Least Common Multiple of two numbers.

II. Whole numbers

- Rules, priority and properties of basic operations;
- Simplification of expressions.

III. Rationals Number

- Representation of a number in the form of a fraction;
- Representation of a number in the form of tithing;
- Irreducible fractions;
- Determination of common denominators;
- Rules, priorities and properties of basic operations involving fractions;
- Simplification of expressions.

IV. Real Numbers

- Potentiation
- The notion of irrational number;
- Radication;
- Rationalization;
- Rules, priorities and properties of basic operations involving radicals;
- Simplification of expressions;
- Sorting of numbers;
- Representation of numbers on the real line.

V. Equations and inequalities of the first degree with unknown

- Concepts and definitions;
- Solving equations and inequalities of the first degree with an unknown
- Problems involving equations and inequalities of the first Degree.

VI. A system of linear equations with two unknowns

- Substitution method;
- Method of the ordered addition;
- Mixed method;
- Problems involving systems of linear equations with two unknowns.

VII. Second-degree equations

- Resolution of equations of the second degree without recourse to the resolving formula;
- Notable cases of multiplication;
- Resolution of equations of the second degree with recourse to the resolving formula;
- Factorization of polynomials;
- Problems involving second-degree equations.

VIII. Functions

- The concept of the function;
- Injections and Surjections;
- Zeros of a function;
- Monotony and extremes;
- Study of linear and affine functions;
- Study of the Quadratic function.

IX. Direct proportionality and inverse proportionality

- Concepts of direct proportionality;
- Linear function study;
- The concept of Inverse proportionality;
- Study of the hyperbolic function.

CURRICULAR UNIT - PERSONAL AND SOCIAL TRAINING AND CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester
Código UC nº 95008

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

Promote knowledge and skills of personal and social development. Raise awareness of the importance of being active agents in society based on diverse experiences of democratic life; valuing diversity as a source of human enrichment; raise awareness of their own responsibility in order to encourage participation, shared responsibility and commitment in building a more just society, freedom and solidarity.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

I. PERSONAL AND SOCIAL TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGE

1. Education a Treasure to Discover

a) From the grassroots to the world society;
b) From social cohesion to democratic participation;
c) From economic growth to human development;
d) The four pillars of education: learning to know; learn to do; learn to live with others; learn to be;

II- Educate for Citizenship. Guiding Principles and Skills to be developed

1.Education for Citizenship

a) School education for values and ethics;
b) The family and the educational system;
c) What values to transmit?

III. Global Schools. Proposals of curricular integration of Education for Development and Global Citizenship in Preschool and 1st Cycle

a) Cultural Diversity and visions of the world;
b) Globalization and social transformation;
c) Inequalities, poverty and social exclusion;
d) Rights, duties and responsibilities;
e) Building a just and sustainable world society.

CURRICULAR UNIT - MOVEMENT, MUSIC AND DRAMA

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester
Código UC nº 95009

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

- Explore the playful characteristics of drama, individually and in groups.
- Develop expression through the body, following the suggestions made by the teacher.
- Develop expression through the voice.
- Develop expression through materials and musical instruments.
- Experience dance through movement.
- Develop good posture, flexibility and body mobility.
- Develop breathing and specific voice techniques.
- Improvise and dramatise exercises proposed by the teacher.
- Improvise and compose choreographies, which can be applicable across several educational settings.
- Improvise rhythmic and melodic sequences, through voice, body movement and different materials and musical instruments
- Apply sound produced by voice, body and musical instruments intexts, pictures and animated cartoons.
- Apply Foleu technique in dramatized stories.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

- Dramatic expression
- Body expression
- Breath and voice proficiency
- Voice expression
- Sound/Music
- Movement and dance
- Diagetic, non-diagetic and meta-diagetic sounds
- Foley techniques

CURRICULAR UNIT - NATURE OBSERVATION AND EXPLORATION ACTIVITIES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester
Código UC nº 95010

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

1. Apply basic concepts of Earth and Life Sciences for the organization of activities for exploring the Natural Environment.
2. Plan and execute practical activities.
3. The environment considered as a tool for learning and exploration.
4. Select diferent sources of information.
5. Relate the learned knowledge with daily life.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Study visits and outdoor activities.
2. Orienteering activities.
3. Collection, identification and storage of specimens.
4. Nature's laboratory.
5. Exploring the local environment.
6. Natural heritage. Observation and exploration of protected areas.
7. National nature conservation projects and institutions.

CURRICULAR UNIT - MATHEMATICAL GAMES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester
Código UC nº 95011

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

This curricular unit aims to develop mathematical abilities and competences, namely mathematical reasoning, mathematical communication and argumentation, through the use of games. Thus, the main goals of this curricular unit are:

1. To know games’ characteristics, including the mathematical concepts that support their strategies;
2. To analyze games’ characteristics as a mathematical activity;
3. To elaborate, select and/or adapt games adequate and relate with the mathematical content;
4. To develop in the students an epistemological and social conscience that sustains personal and professional ways of acting activities.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Characteristics of a game;
2. The game as a mathematical activity;
3. Games of National Mathematical Games Championship;
4. Oriented games.

CURRICULAR UNIT - HEALTH AND WELL-BEING PROMOTION IN CHILDHOOD

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester
Código UC nº 95012

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

This curricular unit aims to alert for the majority of concepts of health and disease of children. The multidisciplinary knowledge of the education professionals is important, as well as its role in the early detection of any disorders of child’s health.

Skills to develop:

- Recognize the importance of the teacher and the School for the children’s health;
- Acquire basic concepts about children’s health;
- Recognize the importance of promoting suitable values and habits in children for their health and their physical, social and mental wellbeing;
- Provide basic health care for children of the school.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Children’s health. Basic concepts.
2. Diet and nutrition. Balanced diet. Food safety. Oral health.
3. Balance between physical activity and rest. Children’s sleep habits.
4. Health and hygiene habits.
5. Disease and prevention. Transmissible diseases. Infection and contagion.
6. Childhood accident prevention. Preventive measures.

CURRICULAR UNIT - PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95013

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

Ethics and Deontology has the following objectives:

1. Acquire a comprehensive knowledge on fundamental concepts of Ethics and Deontology;
2. Know problems / dilemmas of professional ethics of different nature and practical aspects that involve;
3. Formulate performance criteria on aspects related to professional practice;
4. Develop attitudes of conscience, critical reflection and professional responsibility.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

I. GENERAL ETHICS: CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES:

1. Nature and foundations of ethics. Ethical approaches;
2. Key notions: human liberty, human actions and responsibility;
3. Conscience and its formation;
4. Ethics intent and moral norms;

II. ETHICS, PROFESSIONALITY AND DEONTOLOGY

5. Articulation between personal ethics and professional ethics;
6. Professionalism and Deontology. Professional Competences and dimensions in this area;
7. Deontology in professional occupations in the field of education;
8. Pedagogical relationship and ethical: fundamental principle and values;
8.1. Education models for the values in school.

CURRICULAR UNIT - EXPRESSION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95014

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

After attending this curricular unit, students should be able to:

- Speak and write correctly, in terms of spelling, syntax, vocabulary and punctuation;
- Know the characteristics of different types of texts and have the ability to produce them as well as to appreciate them critically;
- Communicate orally with fluency, accuracy, and appropriateness in formal situations of communication.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Critical aspects of oral and written communication in Portuguese

1.1. Spelling and pronunciation
1.2. Vocabulary
1.3. Inflection
1.4. Syntax
1.5. Punctuation

2. Writing skills

2.1. Intentions and different types of texts (informative, argumentative, literary)
2.2. Style and register
2.3. Planning, writing, reviewing
2.4. Bibliographic Referencing

3. Oral skills

3.1. Dynamics and success in oral presentations
3.2. Strategies to enhance oral communication.

CURRICULAR UNIT - SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95015

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

- To understand human diversity and “normal” and “atypical” development;
- To acquire knowledge about the most common developmental disorders;
- To acquire skills to develop Inclusion practices in different intervention contexts;
- To learn how organize the socio-educational environment, implement differentiated intervention practices;
- To know the school and social environment of children with special educational needs.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Principles for building an inclusive society.
2. The Portuguese legislative school framework for children with special educational needs.
3. Current perspectives on human development - Conceptualization, principles, risk and protection factors.
4. Developmental Disorders: Concept, characterization and typologies of sensory, intellectual, motor and socio-emotional disorders.
5. Models, methodologies and intervention strategies for children with developmental disorders.

CURRICULAR UNIT - PEDAGOGICAL MODELS AND INTERVENTION PROJECTS APPLIED TO CHILD CARE SERVICES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95016

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

1. Develop the reflective and critical spirit around kindergarten: deconstruct to transform;
2. Know and analyze different pedagogical proposals;
3. Know and analyze some pedagogical investigations;
4. Develop support for building practical professional skills;
5. Develop the capacity for pedagogical research, specifically action research;
6. Know the main expressions of participatory pedagogy;
7. Identify and describe the principles and educational daily life of three perspectives / pedagogical models for the education of children (0-6 years and primary school);
8. Develop critical capacity in the fields of development / action / evaluation of childhood intervention projects;
9. Develop the knowledge, capacity and ability to manage and / or participate in childhood intervention projects, with different size and complexity, involving multidisciplinary teams.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Transmissive Pedagogies and Constructivist pedagogies:

1.1. The development of participatory pedagogies: taking over the school, transforming the school;
1.2. The construction of participatory pedagogies.

2. Childhood pedagogies and children's learning.

3. The different pedagogical models

3.1. Project based learning
3.2. Modern School Movement
3.3. João de Deus Method
3.4. Cognitive Orientation Curriculum
3.5. Situation Pedagogy

4. Investigation with children: the use of action research in the daily living room: listening to children.

5. Socio-educational intervention projects in childhood: Context and domains of action.

6. Resources and obstacles in the process of implementing childhood intervention projects.

6.1. Articulating people and means;
6.2. Evaluation of the implementation process
6.3. Impact assessment of the intervention.

7. The role of the professional in the processes of social change.

8. Development of community projects as a guarantee of coherent intervention, aiming at socio and educational development and fostering inclusion.

9. Presentation of Childhood Intervention projects - Life experiences and model projects.

CURRICULAR UNIT - EXPRESSIONS WORKSHOP

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95017

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

- To understand the importance of the education for the arts and expression, challenging students to conceptualize the current challenges in this domain and to explore different potentialities of work in this area.
- Encourage and develop different forms of communication using expressive practices (body, dramatic, musical and plastic expression) individually and with others.
- Demonstrate the ability to design activities / projects of Artistic Expression in an integrated way
- Demonstrate the ability to design features tailored to different activities / projects.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

- Contribution of artistic expressions to the child’s development and their relation to other domains of the curriculum.
- Methodologies for planning activities / projects in artistic education (phasing, typology of activities, selection
- Integration of artistic expressions strategies with other curricular domains.

CURRICULAR UNIT - RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES AND EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 95018

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

- Being able to reflect on the Game, the Play and the Educational Environments as essential and structuring elements in child development, enhancing logical thinking, attention and concentration, memory, problem solving and emotional self-regulation;
- Experience, feel and understand the Body as an essential element of the teaching-learning process;
- Understand body education as the basis of all personal and relational development;
- Explore various educational materials and environments, characterizing them and analyzing their playful, recreational and pedagogical possibilities.
- Streamline and manage varied activities with varied materials in different educational environments;
- Develop research and material gathering habits.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Basic theoretical concepts

1.1. Game, Playing, Activity, Playful, Educational, Recreational, Entertainment
1.2. Functions of play and play in child development
1.3. Types of game
1.4. Game: deprivation effects
1.5. Game and movement: the therapeutic and pedagogical components

2. Perspectives of various authors

3. Ludens: Activities, materials and spaces

4. The Play Culture: dances, sayings, songs, games, poems, stories

5. Playing and promoting child development in children with NEE.