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2020/2021

Practicum II

Code: 103701 ECTS Credits: 12
Degree Type Year Semester
2500798 Primary Education OB 3 A
The proposed teaching and assessment methodology that appear in the guide may be subject to changes as a result of the restrictions to face-to-face class attendance imposed by the health authorities.

Contact

Name:
Xavier Fontich Vicens
Email:
Xavier.Fontich@uab.cat

Use of Languages

Principal working language:
catalan (cat)
Some groups entirely in English:
No
Some groups entirely in Catalan:
Yes
Some groups entirely in Spanish:
No

Prerequisites

It is advised to have made the Practicum II and be enrolled in the second year following subjects :

- Learning and Development II .

- Languages and learning.

- Management and innovation in the mathematics classroom .

Practicum II is intended for students to deepen in the analysis and understanding of the processes of teaching and learning and human development at the stage of primary education. These practices are developed intensively over a period of seven weeks, thereby increasing immersion student at school: at first, the student will prepare reflections on teaching practice from the systematic observation and analysis; and a second time, the student will have to intervene as a professional and direct their thoughts from their performance, which will be proportional to the duration of the practices.

In order to take this course it is mandatory to hold the negative certificate from the Sex Offender Registry. The student is the unique responsible to get and present it to the center before the intership starts.

Objectives and Contextualisation


Without losing sight of the whole entire stage, students will follow a group class in a given cycle. In order to deepen the understanding of the processes of teaching and learning, this course is taught by faculty from three departments work in a coordinated manner:


• Department of Psychology and Education
• Unit Language and Literature Didactic
• Unit Mathematics Didactic

In short, the main purpose of these practices is to acquire professional skills that, as future teachers, they will enable the analysis, design and development of the teaching - learning in two key areas of the curriculum of primary education: languages and mathematics.

Competences

  • Acquiring practical knowledge of the class and its management.
  • Analyse and recognise one’s own socio-emotional skills (in terms of strengths, potentialities and weaknesses), to develop those that they are necessary for professional development.
  • Assume the educating dimension of the teacher’s role and foster democratic education for an active population.
  • Collaborate in the different sectors of the educational community and of the social setting.
  • Control and monitoring of the educational process and in particular the teaching and learning by mastering the techniques and strategies needed.
  • Critically analyse personal work and use resources for professional development.
  • Design and regulate learning spaces in contexts of diversity that take into account gender equality, equity and respect for human rights and observe the values of public education.
  • Design, plan and evaluate education and learning processes, both individually and in collaboration with other teachers and professionals at the centre.
  • Develop autonomous learning strategies.
  • Develop critical thinking and reasoning and understand how to communicate effectively both in one’s own languages and in a foreign language.
  • Develop the functions of tutoring and guidance of pupils and their families, attending to the pupils’ own needs. Understand that a teacher’s functions must be perfected and adapted in a lifelong manner to scientific, pedagogical and social changes.
  • Foster coexistence in and outside of the classroom, resolve problems with discipline and bring about peaceful resolution of conflicts.
  • Incorporate information and communications technology to learn, communicate and share in educational contexts.
  • Know and apply information and communication technologies to classrooms.
  • Know and apply the processes of interaction and communication in the classroom and master the social skills required to foster a classroom atmosphere that facilitates learning and coexistence.
  • Know how primary schools are organised and about the diversity of actions involved in running them.
  • Know the curricular areas of Primary Education, the interdisciplinary relation between them, the evaluation criteria and the body of didactic knowledge regarding the respective procedures of education and learning.
  • Maintain a critical and autonomous relationship with respect to knowledge, values and public, social and private institutions.
  • Maintain a respectful attitude to the natural, social and cultural environment to foster values, behaviours and practices that attend to gender equality, equity and respect for human rights.
  • Manage information in relation to the professional field for decision making and the preparation of reports.
  • Promote cooperative work and individual work and effort.
  • Reflect on classroom experiences in order to innovate and improve teaching work. Acquire skills and habits for autonomous and cooperative learning and promote it among pupils.
  • Regulating the processes of interaction and communication in groups of students aged 6-12.
  • Relate theory and practice with the reality of the classroom and school.
  • Respect the diversity and the plurality of ideas, people and situations.
  • Stimulate and value effort, constancy and personal discipline in pupils.
  • Take part and be implicated in the acts, meetings and events at the institution to which one belongs.
  • Take part in teaching activity and learn to do, act and think in terms of the practice.
  • Understanding the function, possibilities and limits of education in today's society and the fundamental skills affecting primary schools and their professionals
  • Work in teams and with teams (in the same field or interdisciplinary).

Learning Outcomes

  1. Adapt teaching and learning programs and activities to pupil diversity.
  2. Becoming involved in the dynamics of the centre and of the classroom when making suggestions for innovation related to the context of the centre and of the classroom.
  3. Being aware of the importance of interactions between peers in the development of empathy, social relations and status within the group.
  4. Collaborate with school professionals in order to extract relevant information from innovative projects analysed.
  5. Conceive teaching practice to be an element of professional improvement.
  6. Control and monitoring of the educational process and in particular the teaching and learning by mastering the techniques and strategies needed.
  7. Coordinate with other teachers in approaches to education and the realization of teaching and learning tasks.
  8. Critically analyse personal work and use resources for professional development.
  9. Demonstrate knowledge of the theoretical framework to analyse the reality of the classroom and school.
  10. Describe and explain the facts and situations related to observed and experienced teaching and learning. Interpret, compare and argue based on one’s own criteria.
  11. Design and regulate learning spaces in contexts of diversity that attend to gender equality, equity and respect for human rights as involved in the values of public education.
  12. Develop a collaborative project in a team, as a first step towards networking.
  13. Develop strategies for autonomous learning.
  14. Discuss different points of view in a reasoned and documentary manner and know how to find connections and commonalities.
  15. Establish evaluation criteria for the planned activities arising from the process of teaching and learning.
  16. Evaluate teaching activity in the classroom, integrating self-evaluation processes.
  17. Evaluate the evolution of one's strengths, potentialities and weaknesses throughout the time spent at the school, to understand how these can influence teaching and consider the practical elements that have influenced this evolution.
  18. Identifying barriers to learning and mobilising resources to address diversity.
  19. Identifying strategies that promote interaction and communication in the classroom, in order to create a good climate for learning and coexistence.
  20. Identifying the teacher’s framework of autonomy and role in today's society.
  21. Identifying ways of managing the time, space and social organisation in the classroom.
  22. Inform oneself by reading articles, bibliographic sources and proposals and teaching resources to interpret and respond to pupil’s needs for specific support.
  23. Justifying the appropriateness of the language and mathematics activities designed in the class group in which they will be taught.
  24. Know about information and communication technologies and apply them in the classroom.
  25. Knowing how to analyse and manage social conflicts in the classroom by making use of group dynamics and teaching social skills in order to improve the climate in the classroom.
  26. Maintain an attitude of respect for the environment (natural, social, cultural) to promote sustainable values, behaviour and practices that respect gender equality, equity and respect for human rights.
  27. Make use of theoretical concepts and principles to interpret educational events, situations and processes in the classroom or school.
  28. Participating in the preparation, development and regulation of the everyday classroom tasks and making suggestions for their improvement.
  29. Permanently learn and think critically as teachers, making use of shared research-action processes to improve and innovate in teaching.
  30. Planning and carrying out activities that promote active citizenship in students.
  31. Planning language and mathematics activities, specifying their didactic purpose.
  32. Reflecting on the potentials of interdisciplinarity within the framework of the present curriculum proposal.
  33. Reflecting on the role of the school in a changing society.
  34. Regulating the processes of interaction and communication in groups of students aged 6-12.
  35. Selecting the key information for making proposals for improvements in primary education centres.
  36. Share specific knowledge with other professionals to ensure a better product or solution.
  37. Share with colleagues doing traineeships in the same school the development of classroom experiences and discuss their suitability for the class group.
  38. Show interest in understanding and comprehending the functions and tasks performed by social institutions.
  39. Understand how the different organizational structures of the school function.
  40. Understand situations and phenomena in the classroom and school and offer grounded responses to what happens.
  41. Understand the need to link ideas and principles with concrete actions, through reflective practice and identification of problem-solving strategies.
  42. Using ICTs and CLTs in the development and production of practical work and in the design of didactic proposals.
  43. Using and evaluating all the languages (oral, written, artistic, body, etc.) in the classroom (between teacher and students and among students themselves) as a tool for negotiating meanings and the joint construction of knowledge.
  44. Using strategies that encourage interaction and communication in the classroom in language, literature and mathematics learning situations.

Content

1. Analysis of the practices observed in the classroom:

										
											• Description, interpretation and evaluation of teaching and learning situations in the classroom, more specifically in the instrumental areas.
										
											• Analysis of attention to the diversity of learning pace.
										
											• Description of activities and approaches to mentoring.
										
											• Analysis of the processes of communication and interaction in the classroom.
										
											• Analysis of the processes of social organization and learning in the classroom.
										
											• Analysis of coexistence, approach and conflict resolution strategies.
										
											
										
											2. Design and testing of proposals for teaching and learning Catalan language and mathematics diversified as needed.
										
											
• Sequencing learning activities and assessment
										
											• Analysis of learning processes in relation to the teaching.
										
											• Experimentation of methodologies that promote cooperation and learning autonomy.
										
											
										
											3. The profession of teacher / a: functions, strategies, techniques and professional attitudes
										
											
• Self-analysis and self-regulation of the practice and learning processes.

Methodology

The methodology is structured according to the training activities planned.
										
											
										
											 Regarding the stay in the center of practices:

										
											• Observation, participation and preparation of documents.
										
											• Development of field diary and observation notes.
										
											• Study of everyday situations at school: types of dynamic activities in the classroom, specifically in the area of language and in mathematics.
										
											• Development of interventions teaching and learning of mathematics and language.

Calendar: from January 11 to February 26, 2021

Seminars and group tutorials i individual:

										
											• Presentation, exchange, discussion and evaluation of observations and processes designed in small groups.
										
											• Design and analysis of interventions on math and language treatment of diversity.
										
											• Reflection on our learning process.
• Active and quality participation

Calendar:
       - 2 tutorials prior to the end of November / beginning of December (preferably on Tuesday).
       - Weekly tutorials (during the stay in the center) on Tuesday afternoons in the time slot from 3 to 9 pm.
       - 1 closing final tutoring to be carried out between April 26 and May 28 2021.


Learning portfolio: 
• Finding information and documentation. 
• Analysis and study of school reality. 
• Design of teaching and learning interventions in the area of mathematics and language. 
• Development of the learning portfolio. 
•Preparation of oral presentations for the seminar.
Students taking part in the Richmond outgoing program can complete their portfolio in English.

Delivery date: from April 14 to 16, 2021

* Students degree in English will write Documents folder in Catalan.

Activities

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
SEMINARS AND INDIVIDUAL OR COLLECTIVE TUTORIALS 22 0.88 8, 29, 17, 37, 41, 40, 5, 9, 10, 13, 14, 22, 15, 27, 20, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31, 30, 33, 32, 35, 44
STAYING IN SCHOOL 203 8.12 1, 29, 16, 4, 37, 36, 41, 5, 6, 24, 7, 38, 12, 11, 22, 15, 27, 43, 18, 19, 21, 2, 23, 26, 28, 31, 3, 32, 34, 25, 44, 42
Type: Autonomous      
PORTFOLIO 75 3 8, 29, 17, 39, 41, 40, 7, 9, 10, 13, 11, 22, 15, 27, 20, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31, 32

Assessment

The requirements to be evaluated compliance 100% attendance in the schedule of teacher’s center (and compliance the complete schedule of teachers, approx. 7h daily) and compliance with a minimum of 80% attendance to seminars mentoring faculty.

At any moment, the center may have to write a report that clearly explains the lack of progress and negative results of the student. If it happens, it would automatically result in a fail in this module and the final mark would be 3.

Each of the blocks of activities (tutorials, staying in the center and portfolio) must be overcome to obtain a positive assessment.

It's obligatory to give portfolio’s documents within the deadline set.

To pass this subject, it’s necessary that the student show, in activities that are proposed good general communication skills, both orally and in writingand a good command of the Catalan language, lingua franca of the subject as stated in the guide teacher. From 3rd year of the degree the student must have shown equivalent competence level C2 of the CEFR.  Assessment of all course individual and group work tasks include criteria based on the quality, in terms of accuracy and fluency, of the assignments submitted by the 5 include criteria based on the quality, in terms of accuracy and fluency, of the assignments submitted by the learners. Learners are expected to display academic skills, which include the abilities of expressing themselves fluently and accurately and comprehending written academic texts. An activity can be returned (not evaluated) or failed if the teacher considers that it does not meet these linguistic requirements.

In order to assess the evolution of student learning and in accordance with the Regulations on the Rights and Duties of the University, it is necessary that its activities are original versions produced by themselves and demonstrate understanding and reflection made about the contents of the subject. Activities thatdo not respect this premise, since it is not possible to evaluate them in terms of student learning, will be suspended. The copy in evaluation activities is grounds for suspending the subject, without the right to recovery.

The evaluation’s criteria of each activity are as follows:

Seminars and individual and group tutorials:

•Assistance

•Active and quality participation

•Documents delivery

• Oralcommunicative competence in Catalan, equivalent to C2 of the CEFR.

Staying in the center of practices:

•Assistance and punctuality (teachers schedule).

• Degree of professionalism

• Level of analysis and participation

• Collaboration with teachers

• Relations with the class group

• Developed interventions

• The ability to reflect on everything in the process of practice

• Communicative competence, both oral and written in Catalan, equivalent to C2 of the CEFR.

Learning portfolio

Individual work on:

• Observations at school

• Interventions and analysis in the classroom 

• Reflection on the learning process

• Academic language proficiency in Catalan, equivalent to C2 of the CEFR.

 Delivery date: from April 14 to 16, 2021

For any doubt can consult the following documents:

General guidelines andcriteria for evaluating the Faculty of Education, approved by the COA on May 28, 2015 and modified in the Junta de Facultat of April 6, 2017

(http://www.uab.cat/web/informacio-academica/avaluacio/normativa-1292571269103.html).

Regulations Assessment of the Autonomous University of Barcelona

(http://www.uab.cat/web/informacio-academica/avaluacio/normativa-1292571269103.html).

 

Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
PORTFOLIO 40% 0 0 1, 8, 29, 16, 17, 39, 40, 9, 10, 13, 22, 15, 27, 20, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31, 33, 32, 44
SEMINARS AND INDIVIDUAL OR COLLECTIVE TUTORIALS 30% 0 0 1, 8, 29, 17, 37, 36, 41, 40, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 12, 14, 22, 15, 27, 20, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31, 30, 33, 32, 35, 44
STAYING IN SCHOOL - SCHOOL REPORT 30% 0 0 1, 29, 16, 4, 37, 36, 41, 40, 5, 6, 24, 7, 38, 10, 12, 14, 11, 22, 15, 27, 43, 20, 18, 19, 21, 2, 23, 26, 28, 31, 3, 33, 34, 25, 44, 42

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Reading

https://leer.es/

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http://www.xtec.cat/web/curriculum/primaria

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http://www.xtec.cat/web/curriculum/primaria

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