CURRICULAR UNITS - MASTER’S DEGREE IN PRESCHOOL AND PRIMARY EDUCATION

CURRICULAR UNIT - METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION I

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915203

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

The Curricular Unit aims to.

The objectives of the course unit are to:

1. Develop students’ competencies for understanding, and critical analysis and evaluation of scientific production in the area of education in general, and pre-school education in particular, with a special emphasis on quantitative approaches.
2. Provide theoretical and methodological knowledge required for the development of a quantitative research project.
3. Promote the interest in the adopting of an investigative stance to practice as a means of reflective practice and continuing professional development.

By the end of the course unit students will be able to:

i. understand the main theoretical and methodological principles underlying the quantitative paradigm of research
ii. articulate the theoretical and practical concepts in the selection of quantitative methods of data collection and analysis appropriate to different contexts
iii. critically evaluate research studies of a quantitative nature.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Education - a field for scientific research

1.1. Main features of the scientific method;
1.2. Research paradigms: quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods.

2. Main types of quantitative research

2.1. Descriptive and exploratory studies;
2.2. Experimental and pre-experimental research;
2.3. Survey;

3. Reading for research

3.1. Searching for and selection relevant literature;
3.2. Literature review; techniques of documentary research;

4. Stages and dimensions of quantitative research

4.1. Problematic, definition of objectives and formulation of questions / hypotheses;
4.2. Definition of variables;
4.3. Collection of quantitative data: questionnaire; observation grids;
4.4. Analysis and presentation of quantitative data: descriptive and correlational statistics;
4.5. Validity and reliability;
4.6. Ethical aspects of quantitative research.

5. Academic style of writing

5.1. General rules of academic writing;
5.2. Structure of the research report.

CURRICULAR UNIT - METHODOLOGY FOR TEACHING EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915204

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

In this curricular unit is intent that students are able to implement several types of adequate activities and strategies for the science education objectives in preschool and primary education. It bis also expected that students understand, identify and assessed the learning that a practice work promote.

Students should be able to:

- Plan and organize various types of activities, using a variety of teaching/learning strategies;
- Relate the types of activities to the objectives they expect to achieve.
- Reflect critically on activities, recognizing the potential and limits of their implementation.
- Get the skills to be able to resolve problematic situations trough the sciences learning.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Current state of science education. International studies.

2. Teaching perspectives in science education.

3. Practical work: Types of activities, objectives and evaluation.

4. Development of science education.

4.1. Introduction to scientific knowledge. Progression in knowledge;
4.2. Scientific processes;
4.3. Importance of attitudes in science education and their contribution in the individual and social education of children.

5. Teaching / learning strategies (laboratory, problem solving, discussion).

6. Teacher performance. The importance of the ideas of children.

CURRICULAR UNIT - EXPRESSIVE PRACTICES IN CHILDHOOD

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915202

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.
- To recognize the contribution of the imagination and creativity for a more harmonious profile in terms of child learning and development.
- Knowing and analyze the curriculum goals of Artistic Expressions in Preschool and Primary Education.
- Understanding the contribution of the arts in the formation of human being.
- Knowing the fundamental conceptual tools for the teaching of each of the areas of artistic expression.
- Demonstrate the ability to design activities / projects of Artistic Expression in an integrated way.
- Demostrate the ability to design features tailored to different activities / projects.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

- Curricular guidelines in early Childhood Education;
- Contributions of artistic expressions to the child's development and their relation to other domains of the curriculum;
- Conceptual tools of artistic languages (movement, drama, visual arts and musical skills);
- Didactic basic of artistic development;
- Methodologies for planning activities / projects in artistic education (phasing, typology of activities, selection of resources, dynamization strategies and assessment procedures);
- Integration of artistic expressions Strategies with other curricular domains.

CURRICULAR UNIT - PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND DEONTOLOGY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915205

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, and relevant information on problems of professional ethics teaching and practical aspects that involve.
2. To be able to understand and analyze theories and practices related to teaching.
3. Formulate performance criteria on aspects related to professional practice.
4. To develop the conscience and the ethical and civic responsibility, in general and in the professional scope, as well as, the social and environmental responsibility.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

I. GENERAL ETHICS: CONCEPTS AND PRINCIPLES

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

II. ETHICS, PROFESSIONALITY AND DEONTOLOGY

5. Articulation between personal ethics and professional ethics.
6. Professional Competences and dimensions in this area. Code of ethical conduct for the education of young children.

Deontology in the Teaching Career Statute (DL 146/2013, art. 10) and in the Standards of Teaching Performance (dispatch n.º 1634/2010).

7. Ethical, deontology and Education: Ethical implications of teaching

7.1. Ethics, values and education;

7.2. Citizenship, social and environmental responsibility.

CURRICULAR UNIT - CURRICULAR INTEGRATION AND EVALUATION

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915201

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

The Course Unit on Curricular Integration and Evaluation aims to:

i. Provide knowledge of the theoretical foundations of the concept of “curricular integration” and its contributions to globalizing, meaningful and functional learning, as well as the roles of the different actors in a teaching-learning process based on curricular integration;
ii. provide knowledge of the evolution of the concept and practices of evaluation in education and the different functions and purposes that the evaluation can assume.

By the end of this Course Unit students are expected to demonstrate competences of comprehension, analysis, implementation and critical reflection on processes, devices and strategies in order to:

i. design integrated curricular projects and to plan integrated teaching-learning activities.
ii. distinguish the positivist / psychometric evaluation from the constructivist evaluation and make informed use of the different modalities of the evaluation according to its purposes and functions;
iii. integrate evaluation in daily practice as a guiding element of the teaching-learning process;
iv. desing, organize and implement a variety of strategies and instruments for the evaluation of pedagogical practice and reorganize teaching and learning in view of the results obtained in the evaluation records.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Curricular Integration

1.1. Fundamentals of curricular integration: epistemological and disciplinary, psychopedagogical and sociocultural;
1.2. Dimensions of curriculum integration: the school, content areas, actors (learners, teachers and family).

2. Integrated Curricular Projects (ICP)

2.1. Objectives and characteristics of an ICP;
2.2. Research-based teaching and learning and the methodology of the project work;
2.3. Integral activities: criteria, planning and registration;
2.4. The roles of the Educator, the family and other educational actors in the construction of an ICP.

3. Brief historical overview of evaluation in education

3.1. Evolution of evaluation thinking over four generations of evaluation;
3.2. Legal framework of evaluation in the Portuguese educational system: legal provisions on the assessment of learning in pre-school education and in the 1^st Cycle of Basic Education.

4. Conceptualization of evaluation of teaching and learning

4.1. Functions of evaluation: diagnostic, formative and summative; continuous and terminal; formal and informal; process and product; criterial and normative;
4.2. Domains of evaluation: affective, social, cognitive and metacognitive;
4.3. Self-assessment. The teacher as a reflective professional.

5. Operationalization of teaching of teaching and learning

5.1. Techniques and instruments for diagnostic, formative and summative evaluation;
5.2. Validity and reliability of assessment tools;
5.3. Diversification of evaluation practices as a central instrument of differentiated pedagogy and inclusion.

6. Project evaluation: steps, processes and practices.

CURRICULAR UNIT - METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR RESEARCH IN EDUCATION II

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester
Código UC nº 6915207

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

The main objectives of the course unit are to:

1. develop competencies of identification, critical analysis and evaluation of empirical research of a qualitative nature.
2. provide theoretical and methodological knowledge required for the development of a qualitative research project.
3. promote the interest in the adoption of an investigative stance to practice as a means of reflective practice and continuing professional development.

By the end of the course unit students will be able to:

i. understands the main theoretical and methodological aspects underlying the qualitative paradigm of educational research;
ii. articulate the theoretical and practical concepts in the selection of qualitative methodologies appropriate to different contexts;
iii. critically evaluate research studies of a qualitative nature.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Fundamentals of qualitative research

1.1. Theoretical and epistemological principles;
1.2. Main types of qualitative studies: phenomenological, ethnographic, and case study;

2. The qualitative research process:

2.1. Focusing the research: formulation of questions and the research plan;
2.2. Study design and sampling in qualitative research;
2.3. Qualitative methods of data collection: direct observation, interviews, diaries, and life stories
2.4. Analysis and presentation of qualitative data: content analysis – constant comparative method; thematic analysis; grounded theory.

3. Ethics issues in qualitative research.

4. Criteria of quality in qualitative research - trustworthiness; credibility, transferability, dependability, confirmability (Guba & Lincoln, 1994).

5. Dissemination of qualitative research

5.1. General rules of academic writing;
5.2. Structure of the research report.

CURRICULAR UNIT - INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL GAMES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester
Código UC nº 6915209

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

1. To know the history of the games to the present day;
2. To know the concepts, the dimensions and the types of games;
3. To understand and use mathematical knowledge related to number theory;
4. To understand and use mathematical knowledge regarding geometry;
5. To understand and use mathematical knowledge regarding combinatory;
6. To know some applications of mathematical games;
7. To develop reading habits, searching competencies and autonomy as a contribution to the personal and professional development of future teachers and other educational agents:
8. To develop in the students an epistemological and social conscience that sustains personal and professional ways of actiog.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Brief history of games.

2. The game: concepts, dimensions and types.

3. The game and mathematics:

3.1. Numerical games;
3.2. Geometric games;
3.3. Combinatorial games.

4. Some applications of mathematical games.

CURRICULAR UNIT - BODY AND DRAMATIC EXPRESSION

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
1st Year – 2nd Semester
Código UC nº 6915210

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

This curricular unit is dedicated to practice and therefore has as its central objectives to develop physical, vocal and creative skills that are the structure that promotes storytelling development. To this end, several exercises will be carried out with the aim of developing tools that bring awareness and mastery of the vocal, physical and above all interpretive instrument. To discover and develop the voice, the body and above all the imagination, thus creating the basis for the taste of communication to develop.

The student must be able to:

- Express through a unique body self expression, trough movement, music and drama.
- Improvise and represent the personal view of feeling the world.
- Develop a good posture and body mobility.
- Develop breathing and vocal conscience.
- Experience and reproduce various vocal exercises.
- Experience dance elements.
- Improvise, compose and elaborate choreographic peices.
- Get acquainted with body education.
- Elaborate and manage a movement session for children.
- Understand the relevance of Art Education.
- Understand the importance of his pedagogical intervention through movement in child education.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

a. Consciousness and development of the physical and vocal instrument.
b. Muscle the imagination through practical exercises.
c. Develop communication tools between the transceiver to bring greater freedom of communication.
d. Find the pleasure of theatrical expression in order to consolidate the figure of the storyteller that exists in each one.
e. To find one’s own voice and aesthetics so that each one find his place in art.
f. Communication as a meeting point, happiness and health.

Art Education and Curriculum

1. Body Expression and Education through Movement and Art

- Drama in education and in childhood
- Multisensorial education
- Criativity
- Movement
- Voice
- Energy
- Relations
- Objects
- Play
- Improvisation
- Space
- Time
- Dances

Planning of a Movement Session

- Target audiende
- Aims
- Strategies
- Competences
- Session Stages

CURRICULAR UNIT - SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915220

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

- To know the planning for an pedagogical intervention that addresses the students’ diversity and in according to their educational needs;
- To understand the organization of activities with different levels of complexity, in order to allow the students to fit in one of the complexity levels;
- To know the Portuguese legislative framework that regulates the education for children with special educational needs;
- To know the diversity and the fundamental characteristics of different types of SEN;
- To develop specific skills of planning for a pedagogical intervention that addresses the diversity of students with SEN;
- To use the assessment moments as a regulatory and developer element of the teaching / learning process;
- To Understand the importance of continuous training and research in the development of teaching and learning process, particularly in the area of special educational needs.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

I. SEN, Inclusive School and Pedagogical Differentiation

1. Students with special educational needs and pedagogical differentiation
2. Curriculum, Curriculum Flexibility and Pedagogical Differentiation
3. Differentiated Pedagogy as extra value to development of competencies
4. Purposeful Education
5. Differentiated Learning Experiences
6. Special Educational Needs: typologies and diversity in the human development

- Concepts and characteristics about the spectrum of the special educational needs

7. Principles and dilemmas for the creation of an inclusive school.

II. Special Education: Practices and Legislation

1. Portuguese legal framework – Changes and Flexibility

Decree-Law Nº 319/1991

Decree-Law Nº 3/2008

Decree-Law Nº 54/2018.

CURRICULAR UNIT - METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915212

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

1. To know the mathematical contents studies in preschool and primary education;
2. To know how these contents are developed in Portugal and in Singapore;
3. To analyze pedagogical and methodological aspects particularly adequate to children who are attending preschool and primary education.
4. To know, analyze and select didactical materials adequate and related with the mathematical contents;
5. To provide tools that facilitate a critical and reflexive intervention in the educational domain and in the learning and teaching processes;
6. To develop reading habits, searching competencies and autonomy, as a contribution to the personal and professional development of future teachers and other educational agents;
7. To develop in the students an epistemological and social conscience that sustains personal and professional ways of acting.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Curricular management and planning in Mathematics.
2. The teaching of Numbers and Operations.
3. The teaching of Geometry and Measurement.
4. Teaching the Organization and treatment of Data.
5. The evaluation in Mathematics.

CURRICULAR UNIT - METHODOLOGY FOR TEACHING HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915211

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

To promote moral values, aesthetic, civic, sociopolitical, and attitudes associated with them;
To develop methodologies in research, observation, and also in collection, processing and representation of information associated to History and Geography issues.
To promote cross-disciplinary readings, in order to relate the different dynamics of land use and the relationships between man and the environment;
To encourage reflection on the context and the depth at which the changes occur through the natural and social issues, as well the patterns which might be associated to them;
To develop practices of organization, planning and resource mobilization;
To develop strategies for creative and innovative practices with or without recourse to information and communication technologies (ICT);
To promote critical thinking and self-evaluation mechanism of teacher performance.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

History and Geography

- Contributions to a formation of the individual - values and citizenship;
- The relationships established in interdisciplinary;
- The curricular dimension (EPE and 1st Cycle): requirements, practices and creativy.

Perspectives of teaching and learning History and Geography

- The dimension of time and space and the objects of study developed;
- Methodological approach and knowledge - terminology and conceptual development;
- The integration of the environment as an exercise at different scales;
- The teaching resources: inventory, construction, exploration, diversity and innovation practices.

From Planning to Assessment

- The syllabus - formal and informal curriculum in planning specific activities between History and Geography;
- The integration of different contexts strategies and practices - oriented research, trial, individual work and group associated with different thematic units;
- The use of new technologies to support the practices - multiplicity and unity; the criteria, for their selection, exposure and communication;
- Mechanism of regulation and self assessment in teacher performance.

CURRICULAR UNIT - TEACHING PORTUGUESE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915223

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

- To develop student’s awareness regarding linguistic and cultural diversity in Portuguese schools.
- To raise theoretical issues related to language teaching.
- To deepen the knowledge of CEFR levels.
- To understand legal procedures and guidelines for Portuguese as Additional Language.
- To develop the interest in collection data on L2 learning - assessment and portfolio.
- To engage in textbooks analysis for L2 teaching and learning.
- To analyse teaching and learning resource materials of Portuguese for speakers of other languages.
- To plan integration activities of students of PLNM and to produce teaching resources.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Linguistic and cultural diversity in Portuguese schools.
2. L1 and L2: concept: terminology.
3. L1 and L2 acquisition and learning: the influence of L1 in L2.
4. Age in L2 learning.
5. CEFRL; Portuguese L2: languages profiles and diagnostic testing:

- Guiding document - language profiles and diagnostic test.

6. Methodology; lesson plans and teaching resources; language teaching.

CURRICULAR UNIT - EXPERIMENTAL TEACHING OF SCIENCES

Academic Year: 2020 / 2021
2nd Year – 1st Semester
Código UC nº 6915224

OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCES TO BE DEVELOPED

1. Acquire the motivation and resourcefulness for experimental science teaching.
2. Recognize the importance and the potential of experimental work and inquiry/investigation in Science Teaching in Preschool Education and Primary School.
3. Develop skills for teaching sciences in an experimental/inquiry basis.
4. Design and implement experimental/inquiry activities. Develop good laboratory practices.
5. Critically analyse the contribution of teachers in promotion and tutoring of experimental work.

PROGRAM CONTENTS

1. Importance, characteristics and potential of the experimental work in Science Teaching in Preschool Education and Primary School.
2. Processes and scientific methods.
3. Types of practical work. Aims and purposes of practical work in science in Preschool Education and Primary School.
4. Laboratory work: organization, planning and good practices. Design of a protocol for laboratory activities.
5. Evaluation and record of practical and experimental activities.
6. Implementation of experimental and investigative activities.
7. Performance of experimental and investigative activities.