2024

Teaching Practice in Creche

Name: Teaching Practice in Creche
Code: PED13919M
18 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/468 hours
Scientific Area: Education Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

The CU Initiation to Professional Teaching Practice in Creche aims to promote students’ acquisition of skills driven from the General Professional Performance Profile of Teachers of Basic and Secondary Education (Law 240/2001) and the Specific Profile of Early Childhood Educator (Law 241 / 2001).

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To characterize the organization of the educational environment and critically reflect on the underlying options
To integrate diverse knowledge about children (0 to 3 years old) characteristics and needs as well as appropriate educational experiences
To understand the different components of the teacher's work in creche with children, families and communities
To develop observation, planning, acting and assessment competences
To develop relational competences with the participants in the educational process
To design an organizational matrix that supports and enriches creche practices.
To integrate the ethic, civic and formative dimensions of their practices
To develop research skills towards curricular intervention, knowledge coconstrunction and the transformation of contexts

Contents

In this CU we work on the four dimensions of the teacher Professional Performance Profile
I. Professional, social and ethical dimension
II. Teaching and learning dimension, which includes:
Organization of the educational environment
Observation, planning and assessment
Relationships and interactions
Integration of the curriculum
III. Participation in school and contacts with the community dimension
IV. Professional development dimension.
These dimensions are integrated in the context of intervention and its regulation both at the educational cntexts and at the University in Seminar sections, calling upon learning from of all the CUs of the course

Teaching Methods

TP takes place full time during 13 weeks. 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, through dialogical teaching (between students, lecturers and cooperating 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.
Students evaluation includes; 1) observation of practice (including information provided by 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 a Viva (35%). Each component has a minimal rating of 10.

Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )