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Practicum III

Code: 102020 ECTS Credits: 14
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500797 Early Childhood Education OB 3

Contact

Name:
Adriana Gil Juarez
Email:
adriana.gil.juarez@uab.cat

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Prerequisites

It is recommended to have completed the practicum I and II.

In order to be able to take this subject it is essential to have a negative certificate from the Central Register of Sex Offenders. It is the student's responsibility to ask for it to be able to provide it at the centre before starting the work placement.

 

Minimum requirements to be assessed at the centre

In order to proceed with the evaluation of the trainees, all these evaluation indicators must be met. If any of them are not met, the final grade will be a fail (grade of 3).

 

Criteria

Yes 

No 
  • 100 % of the timetable has been adhered to and has attended all scheduled activities and has assumed the assigned responsibilities.   

 

 
  • Has been respectful with the members of the educational community, in accordance with the ethical criteria of the profession (relating to aspects such as equality, equity, co-education or inclusion), avoiding inappropriate behaviour (xenophobic, sexist, homophobic, etc.).

 

 
  • Has complied with the school regulations (punctuality, following timetables, use of mobile phones, clothing, etc.). 

 

 
  • Writes and speaks correctly and appropriately according to the vehicular language and the school's guideline. 

 

 
  • In his/her intervention, he/she has shown a reasonable command of the content he/she teaches and the basic skills to teach it.

 

 

 


Objectives and Contextualisation

Contextualization:

Third internship (Practicum III) are designed so that students acquire a general vision of the 3-6 cycle of infant education and the educational processes that take place. The content of these practices focuses on the knowledge of this cycle and the teaching intervention in the classroom. This course is taught by teachers of different educational areas: Social Sciences, Music education, Visual arts, Body Expression, Experimental Sciences, Mathematics, Language and Developmental Psychology. Its design and location in the Curriculum allow the relation between the following subjects:

-       Teaching the knowledge of the natural and social environment in early childhood education I and II

-       Visual arts education in Early Childhood Education I and II

-       Early Childhood Music Education I

-       Teaching Language and Literature in Early Childhood Education

-       Mathematics in Early Childhood Education curriculum

-       Early Childhood Psychomotor and Corporal education

 

Objectives:

-       To know the educational reality of a school and Primary.

-       To observe, analyse and describe the organizational elements of a kindergarten classroom.

-       To design and implement adequate educational sequence to the reality studied.

-       To analyse and reflect on the teaching task itself.


Competences

  • Acquiring practical knowledge of the class and its management.
  • Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
  • Adopt ethical behaviour and attitudes and act according to the ethical principles of the profession.
  • Analyse and recognize one's own socio-emotional skills (in terms of strengths, potentials and weaknesses) to develop those necessary for work and professional development.
  • Consider classroom practical work to innovate and improve teaching.
  • Controlling and monitoring the educational process, and in particular of teaching and learning by mastering the necessary techniques and strategies.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the evolution of the fundamentals of early care and the bases and developments that make it possible to understand the psychological processes of learning and personality construction in early childhood.
  • Design and regulate learning spaces in diverse contexts which attend to the particular issues of pupils regarding gender equality, equity and respect for human rights.
  • Establish relations between theory and practice and the reality of the classroom and the school.
  • Express other languages and use them for educational purposes: corporal, musical, audiovisual.
  • Make changes to methods and processes in the area of knowledge in order to provide innovative responses to society's needs and demands.
  • Manage information related to the professional environment for decision-making and reporting.
  • Master social skills in dealing and relating with the family of each pupil and all families.
  • Participate and get involved in the events, meetings and events of the institution to which one belongs.
  • Promote and facilitate early infant learning, from a global and integrative perspective of different cognitive, emotional, psychomotor and developmental dimensions.
  • Promote coexistence in and outside of the classroom and address the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
  • Promote the autonomy and uniqueness of each pupil as factors of education in emotions, feelings and values in early childhood.
  • Properly express oneself orally and in writing and master the use of different expression techniques.
  • Reflect in groups on the acceptance of rules and respect for others.
  • Regulate the processes of interaction and communication in student groups aged 0-3 and 3-6 years.
  • Take account of social, economic and environmental impacts when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
  • Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
  • Understand and apply the processes of interaction and communication in the classroom and master the skills required to foster a climate that facilitates the learning of social skills and coexistence.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Adjust one's educational proposals to the maturation of children for whom they are intended.
  2. Apply skills and abilities that promote interaction, coexistence and communication among children.
  3. Attend as many of the centre's programming and coordination meetings as possible.
  4. Build relationships and connections between theoretical issues discussed in the faculty and what is observed during work experience.
  5. Collecting and analysing data from the direct observation of the classroom and of the documents from the centre.
  6. Collecting and analysing data from the direct observation of the classroom in order to create a learning sequence proposal adapted to the specific and innovative environment.
  7. Communicate information, facts and events experienced in the classroom and in the school with care and respect for people's privacy.
  8. Design and apply actions to strengthen the weaknesses identified to improve professional development.
  9. Design, apply and evaluate a learning sequence that respects the globality and uniqueness of each child.
  10. Detect situations of conflict and act in observance of mediation criteria.
  11. Identifying strengths and weaknesses and setting personal milestones in the emotional sphere.
  12. Make project proposals taking into account the diversity of the school context.
  13. Making proper use of oral, body, musical, plastic, mathematical, audio-visual languages, etc. in applying the learning sequence.
  14. Making proper use of written language to describe and communicate the experiences and lessons learnt in the practicum from memory.
  15. Manage and lead a group activity by ensuring that good interaction and communication occurs between participating children.
  16. Observing and intervening in the greatest possible number of school situations where students' relatives participate.
  17. Periodically collecting and analysing in writing the personal reactions and impressions of your stay at the school.
  18. Propose new methods or well-founded alternative solutions.
  19. Propose new ways to measure the success or failure of the implementation of innovative proposals or ideas.
  20. Propose projects and actions that are in accordance with the principles of ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and obligations, diversity and democratic values.
  21. Propose projects and actions that incorporate the gender perspective.
  22. Propose viable projects and actions to boost social, economic and environmental benefits.
  23. Reflecting in a group on the acceptance of standards and respect towards others.
  24. Reflecting orally and in writing about the didactic intervention itself.
  25. Reflexively describe the dynamics of different meetings and events that one has participated in.
  26. Relating orally and in writing the observation made in the classroom and the sequence proposal to be applied with the theoretical elements of different subjects in the degree.
  27. Using observation sheets to perform the child's educational follow-up.
  28. Using the results of the analyses carried out in order to make decisions about how to act.

Content

1. The profession of nursery schoolteacher: functions, strategies, techniques and professional attitudes.

2. Analysis of the processes of communication and interaction in the classroom.

2.1 Study of interventions for classroom learning.

2.2 Reflection on methodologies that promote cooperation and learning autonomy.

2.3 Analysis of attention to the diversity of learning pace.

2.4 Value of inclusion as a learning strategy.

3. Analysis of the tutorial function: classroom organization and management.

4. Analysis of coexistence guidelines approaches and strategies of conflict resolution.

5. Analysis of Early Childhood Education Curriculum (3-6 years).

6. Contextualization, design, implementation and evaluation of a teaching and learning sequence.

7. Self-analysis and self-regulation of the practice and learning processes.


Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Group seminars, final exposition and individual tutoring 25 1 7, 4, 11, 6, 23, 24, 26
Type: Supervised      
Stay at the Early Childhood school center 245 9.8 1, 2, 3, 10, 8, 9, 4, 12, 15, 16, 5, 6, 13, 27
Type: Autonomous      
Reading and writing the documents, the report and the final presentation 80 3.2 8, 24, 14

Seminar activities are of the following type: exchange, discussion and evaluation of the processes designed in small groups; attendance at conferences and workshops on specific topics of the practicum; group tutorials on the design of the didactic sequence; oral presentations of work and conclusions.

The activities carried out in the centre are of the following type: observation, preparation of reports, analysis of documents; study of everyday situations in the educational centre: type of activities and dynamics; preparation of the field diary and observation notes; exchange of impressions and readjustments with the classroom teacher; application of the didactic sequence designed (between 6 and 8 sessions applied in the second intensive period).

The activities carried out autonomously are of the following type: reading of recommended bibliography; analysis and study of the school reality; design of a didactic sequence; reflection on the implementation; elaboration of the final report, and preparation of oral presentations.

At the end of the course, there will be a public exhibition showing the materials constructed for the didactic sequence and the projects carried out in the school.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Final report 30% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 7, 10, 9, 12, 15, 11, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 6, 13, 27
Individual tuition and seminars 30 %; Participation and presentation at the closing day of the PIII 10 % 40% 0 0 7, 25, 8, 4, 11, 5, 6, 17, 24, 26, 28
Report from the traineeship centre's teaching staff 30% 0 0 1, 8, 9, 4, 12, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 5, 6, 17, 23, 24, 26, 14, 27

The evaluation consists of three indicators: (1) Evaluation report of the centre, (2) Internship report, (3) Participation in seminars (group) and individual tutorials and the closing day of the PIII. The evaluation activities of this subject are individual and are not recoverable. To pass the course, each of the indicators must be passed separately. A result of < 5 (out of 10) for the report, the report or the participation in the seminars indicates that Practicum II must be repeated.

To succeed during the course, the student must pass each of them separately. A result <5 (10) of the final report, the school evaluation report or the participation from the seminars, indicates the need to fail the subject and therefore, to repeat the practicum II.

If one block of activities is failed and the average with the other blocks is higher than 5, by default the final grade of the internship will be 4.

The seminar attendance is mandatory: Students must attend at least 90% of seminars, otherwise it will be considered not presented in the final qualification.

The attendance during the school timetable is a mandatory requisite (usually 9 to 17h., depending on the schedule of the school). The students attend to the school a minimum of 245h.

The Final report will be delivered through Moodle on the date shown at the end of the stay at the school and the tutor's feed-back will also be done for this virtual classroom. The results of each one of the evaluations will be returned to the students within a maximum period of 4 weeks after its delivery, and a review date will be offered in the days following its publication.

IMPORTANT:

The student must show an attitude compatible with the profession. If this is not the case, at any time during their stay at the internship centre, or the university may decide that the student cannot continue his/her stay at the centre. In these cases, the mentor and tutor will prepare a justified internship report showing that the student cannot continue the internship. If this happens, the student will automatically fail the practicum (the numerical grade that will remain will be a 3 and will not be eligible for re-evaluation). 

If the student gives up the practicum without giving proper reasons the mark will be 0.

To get a pass mark in this course, students should prove, through their oral presentations and their written assignments, they have superior communicative skills and an excellent command of the vehicular language, or languages listed in the course syllabus. 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 learners. Learners are expected to display academic skills, which include the abilities of expressing themselves fluently and accurately and comprehending written academic texts. All potential primary and early years teachers should prove they have a very good command of Catalan (C1 Level for first and second year students and C2 Level for third year students, as described here:    http://www.uab.cat/web/els-estudis/-competencia-linguistica-1345698914384.html ).

In accordance with UAB regulations, plagiarism or copying of any individual or group paper will be penalised with a mark of 0 for that paper, without any possibility of a re-sit. During the completion of a paper or the individual exam in class, if the teacher has reason to believe that a student is trying to copy or s/he discovers any kind of non-authorised document or device, the student involved will obtain a mark of 0, without any possibility to re-sit. (For further information: http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html)

The student must comply with the regulatory framework for internships https://www.uab.cat/web/practicum/normativa-1345881466711.html. In this sense, it is not allowed to repeat an internship centre in two different practicums. it is also not allowed to carry out the internship in a center wherethere are first-degree relatives orwherethestudentworkswithoutauthorizationfromtheuniversitycoordination, as established by theregulations. https://www.uab.cat/doc/RegulacioPractiquesBOEDOC 

The calendar of the internship, the seminars and some aspects of the memory of this practicum can vary for those students who do it linked to a National or International stay through the UAB exchange programme Bressola, Richmond, Munich ...), an ERASMUS or SICUE programme.

In accordance with the academic regulations, this subject does not include the possibility of a single evaluation


Bibliography

Anton, M. (2007). Planificar la etapa 0-6. Compromiso de sus agentes y su práctica cotidiana. Col·lecció Biblioteca d’Infantil 21. Barcelona: Graó.
Bassedas, E.; Huguet, T. i Solé, I. (1996).Aprendre i ensenyar a l'educació infantil. Barcelona: Graó.

Blanch, S., Gimeno, X. i Careta, A. (2016). Com podem i com volem relacionar-nos amb les famílies des dels serveis d'atenció a la petita infància. In-fàn-ci-a, 211, 36-41. 

Blanch, S., Pérez, E. i Silvente, J. (2016). Com citar i referenciar en els textos acadèmics i científics. Bellaterra: Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Recuperat de https://ddd.uab.cat/pub/recdoc/2016/145881/citrefapa_a2016.pdf

Edo, M. (2012). Ahí empieza todo. Las matemáticas de cero a tres años. Números, Revista de Didáctica de las Matemáticas, 80, 71-84.

Edo, M., Blanch, S. i Anton, M. (Coord.) (2016).  El juego en la primera infancia. Barcelona: Ediciones Octaedro.

Gimeno, X. i Careta, A. (2018). Taula d’observació qualitativa per a la recollida d’informació en entorns d’interacció grupal. Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB, https://ddd.uab.cat/record/199180 

Giovannini, D. (2004). Les activitats a l'escola bressol. In-fàn-ci-a, 136, 15-22.

Laguía, M. J. i  Vidal, C. (1990). Racons d'activitat a l'escola bressol i parvulari. Barcelona: Graó.

Majem, T. i Òdena, P. (2007).Descubrir jugando. Barcelona: Octaedro.

Morgandi,T. (2012). Les activitats quotidianes, Temes d'Infància, 182, 12-15.  

Sugrañes, E.; Alós, M.; Andrés, N.; Casal, S.; Castrillo, C.; Medina, N. y Yuste, M. (2012): Observar para interpretar. Actividades de vida cotidiana para la educación infantil (2-6). Barcelona: Editorial Graó

Tognett, G. (2010). La documentació com a instrument per donar valor a les relacions entre els nens en les experiències quotidianes compartides a l’escola bressol, Temes d'Infància, 62, 29-4. 

Vegas, F. (1999). Quan endreçar és una activitat. In-fàn-ci-a, 111, 21-22.

Vila, B. i Cardo, C. (2005).Material sensorial (0-3 años). Manipulación y experimentación. Barcelona: Graó.

Revistes:

In-fàn-cia.
Infància a eu-ro-pa
Guix d'infantil
Web d'interès:

 Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament d'Educació. http://xtec.gencat.cat/ca/recursos/edinfantil

 Xarxa Territorial d'Educació Infantil de Catalunya 0-6. http://xarxaterritorial.blogspot.com/

 

Further reading

Chavkin, Wendy., & Maher, JaneMaree. (2010). The globalization of motherhood : deconstructions and reconstructions of biology and care. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203850510

Foo, K. H. (2019). Intercultural parenting : how Eastern and Western parenting styles affect child development. Routledge.

Janssen, D. (2008). Re-Queering Queer Youth Development: A Post-Developmental Approach to Childhood and Pedagogy. Journal of LGBT Youth, 5(3), 74–95. https://doi.org/10.1080/19361650802162326

Kradin, R. (2009). The family myth: its deconstruction and replacement with a balanced humanized narrative. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 54(2), 217–232. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-5922.2009.01771.x

Mac Naughton, G. (2005). Doing Foucault in Early Childhood Studies: Applying Post-Structural Ideas (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203465332

Marfo, Kofi, and Robert Serpell. Child Development in Africa : Views from Inside. Jossey-Bass, 2014.

Mercer, Jean. Child Development : Myths and Misunderstandings. SAGE Publications, 2013. 

Robinson, K. H., & Jones-Diaz, Criss. (2006). Diversity and difference in early childhood education : issues for theory and practice. Open University Press.

Smidt, S. (2013). The developing child in the 21st century : a global perspective on child development (Second edition.). Routledge.


Software

No specific programme is required.


Language list

Information on the teaching languages can be checked on the CONTENTS section of the guide.