Teaching code

4S007524

Teacher

Maria Renata Zanchin

Coordinatore

Maria Renata Zanchin

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

M-PED/03 - METHODOLOGIES OF TEACHING AND SPECIAL EDUCATION

Period

Sem. 1A dal Sep 26, 2022 al Nov 5, 2022.

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

Learning objectives

General Didactics concerns the main tenets and criteria of education. Knowledge and comprehension: Knowledge of the main issues concerning the theory and practics of education.
Abilities: Students will be able to adequately focus on the main lines of the reflection on education, as well as its most important practical applications.

Prerequisites and basic notions

Care of relational and communication skills in daily life supported by personal reflection activities.
Basic knowledge iabout pedagogy (correlation with philosophy, value of the educational act in human relationships) and developmental psychology (essential characteristics of the development stages by J. Piaget).

Program

School as a system in the relationship with the extra-school world.
- National and European context.
- Vertical curriculum and continuity.
- Student and learning processes: psycho-pedagogical assumptions of learner centered teaching; meaningful and situated understanding and personal skills, learning beyond the cognitive dimensions: motivational, relational, metacognitive dimensions; online learning and technologies.
- Authentic, formative assessment and its tools, student self-assessment.
- Construction of the "learning environment": the classroom as an inclusive community, strategies for understanding; authentic / real tasks and their organisation in learning units; from the experience of "distance learning" to blended teaching: technology and web resources.
- The formative role of the discipline. The formative role of philosophy and its relationship with pedagogy and psychology. - Action research, reflective skills, documentation; team designing and teaching, internal relations (class council, department, college of teachers) and external to the Institute (associations and local authorities).

Bibliography

Didactic methods

Frontal lessons (18 hours).
Discussions, connecting information with personal experiences as a student and if possible, as a worker (teacher, educator, office worker…) (9 hours).
Writing personal logbook (3 hours).
The lessons will be video-recorded and will be available on the Moodle platform of the course. Furthermore, if there are requests, they will take place in dual form, both in presence and with remote synchronous connection.
Project Work of a Learning Path in cooperative learning (6 hours).

Learning assessment procedures

Learning assessment will consist of: 
1 the PERSONAL PORTFOLIO of the student consisting of the following activities (up to 10 points):
A. Production of a learning path in cooperative learning.. Score: up to 4 points.
B. Individual written text of personal reflection on the design of the learning path. Score: up to 6 points. 
2 METACOGNITIVE AND SELF-ASSESSMENT ACTIVITY: drafting the logbook at the end of each lesson.
3 An ORAL INTERVIEW (max 20 points), consisting of:
A. Answer to question of understanding on a topic developed in the texts in the bibliography. Score: up to 7 points.
B. Answer to question of understanding on a topic developed in the lessons of the course (slides and attachments). Score: up to 7 points.
C. Answer to a question of understanding about European Recommendations and Frameworks, National Competence Certifications. Score: up to 6 points.

Evaluation criteria

1. ASSESSMENT OF THE PERSONAL PORTFOLIO
A. Learning path produced in the classroom in cooperative learning groups.
Criteria to assess the processes developed during the design:
cooperation in the working group;
design of operational paths.
Criteria to assess the product:
quality of the task to be assigned to the students and
quality of the didactic work plan, relevance of the chosen
evaluation evidence.
B. Personal reflection on the Learning Unit produced
Criteria to assess the product:
illustration of the didactic function of the learning path (highlighting its advantages and possible limitations),
description of the format used, reflection on the
evaluation approach and indications on useful evaluation
tools;
exposure;
knowledge processing.
2. ASSESSMENT OF THE ORAL INTERVIEW
The assessment criteria for the answers given to the questions of the oral interview will be:
completeness
exposure
knowledge organization
critical analysis skills

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

PERSONAL PORTFOLIO
up to 10 points divided as follows
production of learning path: up to 4 points;
personal reflection about the learning path: Up to 6 points.
ORAL INTERVIEW
up to 20 points divided as follows
answer to a comprehension question on a topic covered by the texts in the bibliography: up to 7 points;
answer to an understanding question on a topic covered in the course lessons (slides and attachments): up to 7 points;
answer to an understanding question on one of the following topics: Recommendations, European frameworks, National certification of competences: up to 6 points.

Exam language

Italiano