Teaching code

4S02393

Teacher

Donato De Silvestri

Coordinator

Donato De Silvestri

Credits

9

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

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

Period

Sem. 1A, Sem. 1B

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars 0

Learning outcomes

Acquisire le conoscenze di base che sono proprie della progettazione didattica in contesto educativo, avendo come destinatari soggetti di ogni età, dalla prima infanzia alla vecchiaia. Conoscere gli elementi di base che caratterizzano la didattica e la progettazione educativa così come espresso dalla ricerca scientifica e come indicato nei documenti di riferimento della UE e della politica educativa nazionale. Conoscere gli approcci possibili alla progettazione educativa e comprendere il significato delle principali teorie che riguardano la progettazione educativa. A partire dalla conoscenza di cosa sia un progetto educativo, apprendere come si progetta nei diversi contesti in cui l’educatore è chiamato ad agire. Dalla consapevolezza di quale il ruolo e il valore fondamentale della sua capacità progettuale, apprendere come si elaborano progetti educativi perché siano in grado di partecipare a gare e a bandi pubblici, nel contesto locale, nazionale e in quello europeo.

Program

Themes and content

Method of teaching:

• Didactics definition and meaning
• How people Learn
• Practical application of teaching and learning
• Approaches methods and techniques: Frontal Lecture; Autonomous Learning; Exercising; Case Study; Simulation/Dramatizing; Research/Guided Discovery; Internet Navigation and ITC; Cooperative Learning; Problem Solving; Training on the Job laboratory, animation and theatrical animation.
• The educator and his role
• Teaching in kindergarten
• Street education
• Extracurricular activities and school

Educational design:

• Approaches
• Project Cycle Management
• The project team
• Techniques for detection, representation, analysis, validation of data
• Responsibility and how to delegate
• Stakeholders and context
• Documentation and communication
• Interpersonal and group relationships

Didactic method

The approach aims active student participation: students and teacher are working in many ways to promote education and to take joint responsibility for learning with:

• stimulus materials (articles, movies, experiences, testimonies), discussion and reflection in large groups and small groups.
• Role games, case study analysis, and critical analysis
• Use of ICT and multimedia
• Classroom integration in presence with online virtual classroom
• Group design simulation
• Theoretical interactive lessons, especially as the initial definition of problem solving, and final debriefing.

Examination Methods

Exam program and assessment method

The assessment methods is different for attending and non-attending students

Attending students
(Students are considered "attending" if they fulfil the course attendance requirements established by the teacher)

Attending students have to work and reflecting on specific materials (online platform), and to produce at least one individual and one group task.
Compulsory texts:
1. Messetti G. (a cura di, Didattica e progettazione, QuiEdit, Verona, 2015
2. De Rossi M., Didattica dell’animazione – contesti, metodi, tecniche, Carrocci, Roma 2018.

The exam will take place in a special session, placed immediately after the end of the course and will include a written test consisting of 20 questions with multiple choice answers. The evaluation will take: 2/3 test and 1/3 of the individual and group task.

Non-attending students

Non-attending students will have a complete knowledge of the following texts:

3. Messetti G. (a cura di, Didattica e progettazione, QuiEdit, Verona, 2015
4. De Rossi M., Didattica dell’animazione – contesti, metodi, tecniche, Carrocci, Roma 2018.
5. Terlizzi T., Didattica del nido d'infanzia, Junior, Bergamo, 2010
6. Maccario D., L’educazione difficile. La didattica nei contesti socio-culturali e assistenziali, CarocciFaber, Roma, 2009 (Contesti educativi socio-culturali)

The exam will take place with written test:

20 Multiple-Choice Questions on Texts:
1. Messetti G. (a cura di, Didattica e progettazione, QuiEdit, Verona, 2015
2. De Rossi M., Didattica dell’animazione – contesti, metodi, tecniche, Carrocci, Roma 2018.
Two open questions on each of the following texts:
1. Terlizzi T., Didattica del nido d'infanzia, Junior, Bergamo, 2010
2. Maccario D., L’educazione difficile. La didattica nei contesti socio-culturali e assistenziali, CarocciFaber, Roma, 2009 (Contesti educativi socio-culturali)