In-depth Supervision and Teacher Education Issues

Code:

DE333

Acronym:

QASFP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Educational Sciences

Instance: 2018/2019 - 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	8	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	12	98	324

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

The curriculum domain Supervision and Teacher Education is framed by national and international challenges towards the promotion of the democratic school, development of societies and assurance of educational principles of equity and social justice. It assumes a perspective that combines macro, meso, and micro levels of analysis and intervention in education. Aiming to train for supervision and teacher education, it focus on the conceptual systems about supervision and teacher education, the analysis of educational and training institutions  and on teacher education policies and practices. This curriculum unit organizes in dialogue with local, national and international research and around the identification of core paradigms and theories, critical analysis of policies, projects and programs, and design of research projects and intervention.

Learning outcomes and competences

 

-to know and understand the conceptual and practical systems that shape the field of teacher supervision and training;
- identify problems and elaborate problems in the field of teacher training, integrating them in a comprehensive perspective of school education and its insertion in the social world;
- identify and confront different theoretical approaches in order to analyze strategic options in the field of teacher supervision and training;
- critically analyze policies and practices for teacher supervision and training;

- to construct and to write the dissertation or internship project;

-  to coordinate, to supervise, to research, to make decisions and to give advice on Supervision and teacher education.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Sociology of education
Psychosociology of education
Education policy
Theory and development of the curriculum
Evaluation in education

Program

Approach
 
Field: school education
Focus: supervision and teacher training
Levels of analysis: micro, meso and macro
The articulation between policies, practices and research

2. Challenges of supervision and teacher education 

Societies of knowledge and teacher education
Improving schools and teacher education
Teacher education for social justice

3. Piloting training systems
Evaluation polices for teacher education
Criteria for assessing the quality of teacher education

4. Policies, projects and practices in STE

TE policies

TE in the world

Research projects under supervision and TE

Mandatory literature

Campos, B. ; Políticas docentes: formação e avaliação, Mais Leituras, 2013
Moon, B. ; Teacher education and the challenge of development – global analysis, Routledge, 2013
Pereira Fátima; Educação pública, formação de professores e epistemologia(s) do trabalho docente, FPCEUP, Provas de Agregação, 2016
Pereira Fátima; Formação de professores, trabalho docente e justiça(s) em educação, FPCEUP, Provas de Agregação- lição, 2016
Lopes A. ; CONSTRUÇÃO DE IDENTIDADES PROFISSIONAIS DOCENTES A CONFIGURAÇÃO DE UM CAMPO CONCEPTUAL, FPCEUP, Provas de Agregação- lição, 2007
Vieira, F. et al.; No caleidoscópio da supervisão: imagens da formação e da pedagogia, Pedago, 2009

Teaching methods and learning activities

In both theoretical and practical sessions

 

1. Contents presentation and discussion 

2. Individual and group reflection of extracts from documents and texts 

3. Analysis of cases and situations

 

Seminar sessions include:

4. Presentation of texts, documents, and research by students

5.  Lecturers with invited experts

 

The tutorial sessions are held in

 

6. Small groups to support autonomous work

7. Individually, aiming to prepare the dissertation or internship project

 

Students will be divided by the different lecturers/supervisors depending on their interests.

 

The autonomous work includes

 

8. Research, reading, and systematized writing of documents, articles and monographs related to policies, practices and research in supervision and teacher education and preparation of their presentation in the sessions

9. Writing the dissertation/internship project

 

The evaluation is “distribuída com exame final”, and includes the production of texts along the semester and the written and oral presentation and discussion of the dissertation / internship project

Software

N/A

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Teacher training
Social sciences > Educational sciences > Research methodology
Social sciences > Educational sciences > Education > Permanent education

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	5,00
Prova oral	15,00
Trabalho de campo	30,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	0,00
Estudo autónomo	48,00
Frequência das aulas	98,00
Trabalho de campo	20,00
Trabalho de investigação	50,00
Total:	216,00

Eligibility for exams

The evaluation model adopted presupposes compliance with attendance in accordance with the law for the remaining courses of the faculty and without prejudice to the provisions of article 9, paragraph 4, of the evaluation regulation.

Calculation formula of final grade

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students in special assessment should contact teachers at the beginning of the school year in order to jointly plan the evaluation forms.

Classification improvement

Students will be able to improve the classification in accordance with the provisions of the FPCEUP Student Evaluation Regulations, reviewing the written work.