2025

Teaching Practice in Primary School

Name: Teaching Practice in Primary School
Code: PED15041M
24 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/624 hours
Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

1Identify implications of current challenges for pedagogy in based on recent research
2Characterize educational environments, understanding the characteristics of classrooms as learning communities and critically reflect on options
3Understand the characteristics and needs of children in the context of an inclusive school and reflect on appropriate educational experiences.
4Develop skills in promoting curriculum learning: Curricular intervention aligned with quality education and the regulations that guide teaching at this level of education: relational and communicational dimensions; civic and formative dimensions, with the ethical and deontological requirements; Integration of the curriculum in the different areas of knowledge; Observation, planning, action and evaluation
5 Analyze educational action, scientifically and socially substantiating educational options
6Develop relational skills in a school environment and with communities
7Develop research, reflection and prof development

Contents

1. The goals of education in the 21st century and its implications for the organization of the teaching / learning process in mono-teaching
2. Professional performance profile and teaching in the 1st Cycle
2.1. Professional, Social and Ethical Dimension
2.2. Development of Teaching, Learning and Assessment
2.2.1 Teaching/Learning Models
2.2.2 Curriculum Development in the Context of an Inclusive School
2.2.3 Management of learning in mono-teaching
2.2.4 Integration of the Curriculum
3. Participation in school and contacts with the community dimension
4. Lifelong Professional Development Dimension

Teaching Methods

TP takes place full-time, at the cooperating institution, in compliance with the established number of weekly hours, during the total number of weeks of the semester. The first 3 weeks are of participant observation, beginning full intervention at the 4rd week supported by cooperative planning.
Formative assessment supports the entire process of PES, based on dialogical processes and collaborative supervision approach (between students, lecturers and cooperant teachers) in institutional contexts as well as in Seminar sessions at the university. This process supports the development of the PES portfolio and the final teaching report, supported by the PES Assessment Guidelines and other selected research tools. Interactive processes are also carried out through the moodle platform and e-mail.

Assessment

Continuous assessment includes: 1) observation of practice (including information provided by the cooperating institution (cooperating educators; coordinator of the institution) and a learning portfolio (65%); 2) and a Teaching practice report (research of their practice) presented and discussed in front of a jury (35%). Each component has a minimal rating of 10 values