Supervision and Teacher Education

Code:

DE219

Acronym:

SFP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Studies/Public Policies

Instance: 2014/2015 - 1S

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	19	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

It is intended to facilitate the theoretically grounded understanding of current issues in the field of teacher education and supervision and to promote expert learning and competence development in the field. 

Learning outcomes and competences

a)      To critically analyze issues in teacher education and supervision, integrating them into a comprehensive perspective of school education, school improvement, and teachers identity and professional development

b) To understand and analyze theories and paradigms in teacher education and supervision

c) To take knowledge and understand conceptual and practical systems that shape teacher education;

d) To identify current trends in teacher education and supervision;

e) To express matters teacher education and supervision, orally and in writing, using appropriate language.

 

Skills to found

f) Design, advisory, consulting, management and evaluation of projects and programs on teacher education and supervision, with regard to models, processes and professional and socio-institutional frameworks;

g) Development of relevant research in the field of teacher education and supervision.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Teacher education and supervision as a problematic

Genesis and crisis of school and teaching work

Professional and social meanings of teacher education and supervision

Tensions and challenges in teacher education and supervision

2. Supervision, training of teachers and teacher identities

Paradigms of the effective teacher and models of teacher education and supervision

Identities and professional development of teachers

Supervision, professional development and school improvement

3. Paradigms in teacher training

Teacher training and epistemology of teaching

Formative rationales for teacher training: from cognitive-instrumental rationality to communicative rationality and hermeneutics;

Teacher education theoretical models

4. Studies in teacher education

Teacher education and 'manufacture' of childhood and teacher professionalism

Teacher education and justice in education

Pre-service teacher education: trainers, curricula and basic identities

In.service teacher education: modalities and impacts

Mandatory literature

Alarcão Isabel; Supervisão. ISBN: 978-972-8980-57-3
Day Christopher; Desenvolvimento profissional de professores. ISBN: 972-0-34807-0
Lopes, Amélia, & Pereira, Fátima ; Everyday life and everyday learning: the ways in which pre-service teacher education curriculum can encourage personal dimensions of teacher identity. february, 17-38., European Journal of Teacher Education, 35(1), february, 17-38, 2012
Lopes, Amélia, & Pereira, Fátima; Escritos de trabalho e construção social da acção educativa institucional: (e)feitos de um processo de investigação-acção. , Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, 22, 109-132., 2004
Pereira, Fátima; Conceptions and knowledge about childhood in initial teacher training […], Teaching and Teacher Education, 25(8), 1009-1017. , 2009
Pereira, Fátima; Concepts, policies and practices of teacher education […], Journal of Education for Teaching: International research and pedagogy, 39(5) 474-491., 2013
Vieira Flávia 070; No caleidoscópio da supervisão. ISBN: 972-8980-04-3
Zeichner, K.; Nuevas epistemologías en formación del profesorado. […], Revista Interuniversitaria de Formación de Profesorado, 24(2), 123-149., 2010

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact hours

Presentation and debate on theoretical content;

Analysis, presentation and discussion of texts, with a theoretical and empirical nature, from a compilation released by the lecturers; systematization of conceptions arising from discussions; tutorial support and assessment.

 

Autonomous work

To read, to study and to analyze texts; to prepare the presentation and discussion of a text (small group work); to individually write a critical synthesis of respective learning outcomes

Software

não se aplica

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Trabalho de campo	30,00
Trabalho escrito	10,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	63,00
Frequência das aulas	49,00
Trabalho de investigação	50,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

x

Calculation formula of final grade

x

Examinations or Special Assignments

x

Internship work/project

x

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

x

Classification improvement

x