Management and Mediation in Teachers' Supervision and Training

Code:

DE311

Acronym:

GMSFP

Instance: 2011/2012 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	10	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	12	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

 To know and understand the conceptual systems and practices that comprise the field of supervision and training of teachers;
 To identify and elaborate upon problems present within the management and mediation in supervision and training of teachers, integrating them in a comprehensive perspective of scholar education and its insertion into the social world;
 To produce an empiric study within the sphere of management and mediation in supervision and training of teachers;
 To deepen knowledge about projects within the field of management and mediation in supervision and training of teachers;
 To identify and confront different theoretical approaches in function of their ability to analyse strategic options within the field of supervision and training of teachers;
 To elaborate the pre-project of the master dissertation.

 To perform a research with an empiric dimension
“define some evidence of a problem”
• To Develop a theoretic framework
• To Develop mechanism for gathering information
• To Collect information and produce data
• To systematize data
• To interpret data
• To disseminate the produced knowledge
to organize a presentation on the performed study (Powerpoint, communication, article, poster,...)

Program

1. Administration, Management and Implementation of leadership
1.1. What does autonomy of the public school mean?
1.2. What is strong and effective leadership?
2. Management and organisation of the pedagogic work
2.1. School and organisation of the pedagogic work: Models and perspectives
2.2. Modalities of Management and Organisation of the pedagogic work
3. Models of supervision and training of teachers
3.1. Problems and current tendencies in the training of teachers
3.2. Models of supervision and training of teachers
3.3. Research projects in the domain of supervision and training of teachers
4. Problems of Mediation in training
4.1. Narrative process and training of teachers
4.2. Narratives in the initial training of teachers
4.3. Research projects about problems of mediation in training

Mandatory literature

Alarcão Isabel; Supervisão. ISBN: 978-972-8980-57-3
Lopes Amélia 070; Fazer da formação um projecto. ISBN: 978-972-8082-83-3
Elisabete Ferreira; Políticas educativas, governação democrática e autonomias. In C. Leite, & A. Lopes (Orgs), Políticas educativas e dinâmicas curriculares em Portugal e no Brasil (pp135-152), CIIE/LIVPSIC, 2008
Elisabete Ferreira; (D)Enunciar as Autonomias na Governação da escola Pública Portuguesa como contributo compreensivo da Mediação Organizacional. In SIMÃO, Ana, CAETANO, Ana Paula & FREIRE, Isabel, Tutoria e Mediação em Educação (pp171-181), EDUCA, 2009
Pereira Fátima; A^formação dos profissionais para a infância
Sergiovanni Thomas J.; O^mundo da liderança. ISBN: 972-41-3714-7
Lopes, A. e Pereira, F.; Escritos de trabalho e construção social da acção educativa institucional: (E)feitos de um processo de investigação-acção. , Educação, Sociedade e Culturas, nº 22, 2004
Cosme Ariana; Ser professor. ISBN: 978-989-8148-24-7
Trindade Rui; Todas as aprendizagens são pessoais, mas ninguém aprende sozinho. ISBN: 978-85-60911-09-7

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical-Practical Model, integrating: Moments of structured presentation of contents challenged by questioning and debate around the presented ideas and concepts; small group work on the analysis of cases, resorting to various supports, analysis and synthesis of small texts and development of the master dissertation project based upon theoretic and empirical research.
The independent work evolves around the reading and analysis of texts, theoretical research, and the preparation of presentation of the master dissertation project and its construction process.

Organisation of the course unit
The course unit is developed through:
- Large group sessions for a conceptual approach and theoretical reflection;
- Small group sessions for orientation in the conception and development of exploratory studies that form the basis for the elaboration of the dissertation project;
- independent work
- An “open class” for the presentation of the works, commented by specialists and discussed in debate.

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	104,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

The evaluation process requires that students attend classes, without prejudice of what is stated in item 4, article 9 of the assessment regulation. The mandatory attendance consists of ¾ of the amount of classes.

Calculation formula of final grade

The grades of all evaluation components are expressed on a value scale from 0 to 20.

Evaluation components

Process of construction of the project (30%)
factors:
- Research in dissertations and theses.
- Research of articles in databases
- Small exploratory and empirical study

Master dissertation project (10 to 15 pages)(60%)
factors:
- Identification of a problem
- Theoretical aspects to consider
- Explanation of the foundations and methodology to develop
- Adequacy between the research problem and the methodology to develop

Presentation of the work (10%)
factors:
- Systematisation of the construction process and the dissertation project
- Clarity of the exposed arguments
- Creativity in the presentation

Examinations or Special Assignments

Does not apply

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who are exempted by law from CU's contact hours will be asked to perform a special test to assess mastery of skills and the CU's programmatic contents. FOR THIS, THE STUDENTS SHOULD CONTACT THE TEACHERS IN THE BEGINNING OF THE SEMESTER.

Classification improvement

In consonance with dispatch number GR.02105/2010 students are able to carry out an improvement of the grade of the exam only once in one of the two examination times immediately after the exam on which they obtained an evaluation.