Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
School Internships 3
Other languages of instruction: English, Spanish
Teaching staff
Its each tutor´s responsability to inform their students of their office hours and availability.
Students should always direct their inquiries to their assigned tutor. The tutor will then, consult the school placement comision, if necessary, in order to respond to the student inquiries.
EL MATERIAL DIDÀCTIC DE L'ASSIGNATURA ESTÁ DISPONIBLE EN EL MOODLE
Introduction
School placements III as a fundamental part of teacher education aims to offer a wide range of experiences to our students in order to enhance their knowledge and their teaching practices in actual school contexts. For this reason, students will be provided with the opportunity to come into contact with different educational institutions, which will enrich their own personal and professional background.
This subject, which is worth 24 credits, involves observation practices, an element of autonomous intervention and the design and implementation of a unit plan (UP), which needs to be related to the minor that students are undertaking. Please, note that English minors' school experience will be based on the minor in its entirety.
According to the rules and regulations that govern teacher education studies, school placements are held ractices are held in state-funded or private state-funded educational institutions accredited by the Department of Education of Generalitat de Catalunya or in private institutions by means of bilateral agreements between the Faculty and the institution. Tranining centres and institutions may be located in Catalonia, outside Catalonia and abroad.
The school placement period in 2020-2021 will run from the 1st of Febuary till the 14th of May of 2021 during school opening hours (morning and afternoon).
Pre-course requirements
Having passed the Teaching Practice I and II and the subjects have completed the corresponding statement.
It will be necessary to present at the training center, along with the rest of the documentation, a negative certificate of sexual offenses that the student will have to process.
In the cases that are required, a medical certificate must be presented before the start of the internship, certifying that the student has no impediment to carry it out.
The compulsory certificates that each student will have to present at the center are:
- Negative sexual offense certificate.
- COVID 19 responsible declaration (according to Moodle document).
- Tests (only if the center requires it).
Objectives
- Observe the reality of classroom practice
- Collect data to create new knowledge practice
- Designing an innovation proposal in the classroom linked to the Minor degree.
- Developing a weekly journal based on reflections and observations
- Relating theory and practice
- Designing and implementing a unit plan
- Self-assessment of unit plan implementation
- Collecting data to create new knowledge
- Becoming familiar with the training centre (staff structure, plans developed, meetings, other)
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
- CEM-09 - To acquire resources to favour the educational integration of students with additional needs.
- CEM-11 - To value the importance of stability and consistency in the school environment, timetables and the state of mind of teachers as factors that contribute to the harmonious and comprehensive progress of students.
- CEM-13 - To attend to the needs of the students and transmit confidence, calmness and affection to them.
- CEM-65 - To regulate the processes of interaction and communication in the 0-3 and 3-6 age groups.
- CEM-66 - To be familiar with how to collaborate with the different sectors in the educational community and the social setting.
- CET-1 - Interpersonal responsibility: to be aware of professional performance and influence on students. To have the skills and knowledge to manage group processes and communication for good collaboration with and between students.
- CET-2 - Pedagogical responsibility: to have the knowledge and teaching skills required to create a safe learning environment for both classes and groups, but also for individual students, in order that children can become responsible, independent adults.
- CET-4 - Expertise in the subject taught and teaching methodologies: to have the required knowledge in the subject taught and to know which teaching methods should be applied to create a good learning environment where students can acquire the cultural baggage they need to live in society. and to do so in an up-to-date, professional and systematic manner.
- CET-6 - Collaboration with the professional environment at the school: to have the knowledge and skills required to establish good relations with the people and institutions dedicated to child welfare or belonging to the school's professional environment.
- CET-7 - To promote responsibility in terms of professional development: to analyse, reflect on and develop points of view about the profession and teaching skills, to know how to make these clear and how to bring them up to date.
- CG-02 - To communicate clearly and correctly in the language of instruction (Catalan and Spanish), orally and in writing, in accordance with level C1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).
- CG-03 - To be able to communicate in English at level B1, according to the Common European Framework of Reference for languages (CEFR).
- CG-05 - To be familiar with the elements that make up analytical thinking, the different levels of proficiency and how to develop this skill as much as possible.
- CG-06 - To be familiar with the elements that make up systemic thinking, the different levels of proficiency and how to develop this skill as much as possible.
- CG-07 - To be familiar with the elements that make up critical thinking, the different levels of proficiency and how to develop this skill as much as possible.
- CG-08 - To be familiar with the elements that make up reflective thinking, the different levels of proficiency and how to develop this skill as much as possible.
- CG-09 - To be familiar with the elements that make up creativity, the different levels of proficiency and how to develop this skill as much as possible.
- CG-10 - To be familiar with the elements that make up entrepreneurial spirit, the different levels of proficiency and how to develop this skill as much as possible.
- CG-11 - To be familiar with the elements that make up the quality-based approach, the different levels of proficiency and how to develop this skill as much as possible.
Learning outcomes of the subject
- Manage a group class effectively taking into account the diversity of students.
- Plans and strategies and techniques adapted to the needs arising in the classroom context and the educational needs of students.
- Identifies learning difficulties and design activities and adequate funding to solve them, adapting interventions to the needs of students and context.
- Generate alternatives in innovative and original approach to situations.
- It uses forms of organization, teaching aids and educational materials in accordance with the objectives and learning activities.
- Cooperates with the computer center and the various stakeholders in the vision of the educational goals of the school.
- Integrates information technology and communication in the teaching-learning in management education and professional development.
- Communicates and properly expressed in the language of instruction in oral and written.
- Explain the significance of the analysis of data collected in observational records and is able to deduce conclusions.
- It is capable of expressing information using charts and graphs that clearly highlights the relevant information.
- Is able to express relevant information based on their thoughts.
- Coherently integrates different perspectives, sources, theoretical dimensions to analyze reality.
- Designs, develops and evaluates a project that applies the concepts that allow to achieve the objectives.
- Transmitted effectively, relevant lessons learned to adapt to the situation and consequently improve it.
- Generalized with caution and critical from the observations.
- It asks questions delving into reality, formulated their own judgments and assessments from the systematic reflection, thus showing a process of personal growth.
- Participate constructively in discussions, contributing to building a rich and shared reflection, reconsidering the proposals and decisions and assessing its implications due to the new context factors.
- Show a process of identifying and overcoming its own previous conceptions from reflection, which allows face situations own mental block.
- Represents its reasoning in a complete and an organization that reflects the structure of his thought.
- It argues that there are several ways to solve the problems and propose innovative solutions.
- Transmitted to other new ideas generated and made understandable.
- Maintains a progression in the development and deepening of their work, which is reflected in a personal involvement and depth.
- Effectively integrates the fields interpersonal academicoprofessionals.Fa use of library resources and reflects the relevant literature
Syllabus
According to the curriculum:
- Planning programs, projects and innovative educational processes and shared
- Uncertainty management and decision making: integration of know-how to solve problems
- Classroom management from the application of educational activities
- Strategies applied to the school and its relationship to the theoretical framework
- Intervention strategies in learning difficulties and disorders
- Models of teaching practice and classroom management and assessment depending on the context
- Teaching resources applied to education
- Analysis and practical issues of organization and management center
- Knowledge and description of global center
- Coneixment the socio-emotional development of students
- The observation as an instrument of record
- Responsibility as a key element in the training and development of the teaching profession
- The skills necessary to perform a professional contribution to the educational climate of their school
- ICT as a tool for improving teaching and learning
Teaching and learning activities
In person
The methodology of practice include:
S: Seminars in college
PE: Placement center
ETI: Individual study and work
T: Individual tutorials
Before the placement:
Before the first seminar, the practicum secretary will issue the documents and they will be sent to the centers in an ONLINE format. The secretary will contact you to explain the steps of this process.
This documentation that will be sent ONLINE from the secretariat includes:
- 3 copies of the annexes of the internship agreement with the name of the internship center, the data of the university tutor and the student's data and the internship period. There must be a signed copy for each of the parties (student, university and training center).
- 1 letter of presentation of the coordination of practices of the faculty for the director / a of the center, head of studies, coordinator / a or the person designated by the center.
- 1 sheet with the work plan.
The presentation and reception of each student at the center will be done in accordance with the action plan for this 2020-2021 academic year and the indications of the coordinator of each center.
During the placement:
Students will:
Fulfill their internship period and time is included in the annexes of documents.
Notify the center and the university tutor in case of illness or absence that will justify.
Respect the rules in force at the center.
Ensure that the documentation delivered on the day of the interview (SCRIPT and data tutor / a UIC) has reached the tutor / to the center.
Reach an agreement with the tutor center to discuss the type of intervention linked to mention it will perform in the classroom (see indicative timetable practices).
Collect the following data the placement and send them by mail to your tutor / to university: COMPLETE COURSE NAME, EMAIL, PHONE FOR AVAILABILITY AND to locate him / her. Send this information to the first day of practice tutor / to university via email.
Contact the tutor / to university via email to notify you of any problems or questions.
Attend the 2nd seminar
Schedule distribution tasks guidance during the internship
FEBRUARY
Classroom observation made on the basis of the indications of the script and linked to mention to identify the distinctive features of the classroom and students should allow you to collect clues to plan the intervention.
Planning intervention agreement with the tutors and according to the script of practices.
Preparation Daily Weekly linking practices relevant aspects of practice theory learned.
Participate in classroom activities.
MARCH
Intervention in the classroom and evaluation of the intervention.
Preparation Daily Weekly linking practices relevant aspects of practice theory learned.
Participate in classroom activities.
APRIL
Complete the sections of the script have not yet been made.
Preparation Daily Weekly linking practices relevant aspects of practice theory learned.
Participate in classroom activities.
After the placement:
Attend the seminar subsequent transfer of information with the tutor / to university.
Deliver work practices on the established date.
Attend tutoring individual work once corrected (date proposed by the tutor / to university).
(For legal regulations work practices can not be delivered to the student and is deposited for one year at university. Once corrected, and show yourself to tutor students / college has to deliver it secretary).
Students must send the practicum portfolio to tutors also in a pdf format.
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
The assessment of the assignment consists of different parts. Cal approve totes the parts to approve the assignment. The presence of competences of the students (see document in Moodle), will suppose to suspend the assignment and the student to repeat the seves practices (it is only possible to repeat in two calls)
- Seminars with the supervisor (compulsory attendance, participation): 15%
- Portfolio based on the guideliness included in the course programme: 50%
- Mentor's assessment sheet (based on the students' attitudes and skills) along with the interview held between the supervisor and the mentor: 35%
The final mark will be entered in the second semester. However, student teachers will know their mark in the individual tutorial with their supervisor. There is no second sitting for suspended teaching placement due to content, and the student must register on it again.
Portfolio extension: Maximum 40 pages or 20 pages double-sided.
Language: Catalan / Spanish (Guatemala or Seneca) / English (minor).
Obligatory seminars:
- "Knowing how to be, knowing how to be": January 25th from 10am to 11am. (Practicum Comitee)
- Initial seminar: 25th or 26th of January (UIC Tutors)
- Seminar between training periods: 24th of February, 24th of March and the 21st of April
- Posteriors: 17th or 18th May (UIC Tutors)
Portfolio submission: 20th of May
Final marks available to the Practicum Committee and the TFG Coordinator: 26th of May
Individual tutorial and final mark: From 25th of May
Closure of records: 11th of June
Excel·lent (9-10)Students will be assessed on the basis of the scale below:
Notable (7 to 8.9)
Approvat(5-6.9)
Insuficient (3-4.9)
Deficient (0-2.9)
NC - Uncorrected. The dossier must be repeated for serious defects in form. Students have one week to do the formal correction of the work and will only be able to obtain an APPROVED (5). If the learning dossier is suspended by form and content or by content, the first call is suspended and the work must be submitted to the second call according to the date indicated by the university tutor.
The second call for internships can only be considered when there is an NP (submission of the dossier out of time or an approved schedule adaptation plan). In the event that there are content defects in the written work of internships or lack of skills during the stay, it will be necessary to repeat the internship and re-enroll in the subject.
Students whose portfolios do not meet basic quality standards regarding formal aspects will be given a 4 and the chance to amend and resubmit their work on the specified date. Portfolios that are re-submitted in these circumstances will be submitted on the 26th of June and will be marked on a pass/fail basis, having the maximun grade a 5.
The students' final grade will be numerical. In order to pass the subject, students need to pass all of its components, including seminars and workshops, the actual school placement period, and the portfolio. Students will only be able to take re-assessment in the event that they fail to submit the portfolio on time or at the supervisor's request via NC (see scale above). The actual school placement period cannot be extended under any circumstances, for which reason re-assessment will only apply in the cases mentioned above. This also means that the portfolio cannot be amended in terms of content.
The second call for internships can only be considered when there is an NP (submission of the dossier out of time or an approved schedule adaptation plan). In the event that there are content defects in the written work of internships or lack of skills during the stay, it will be necessary to repeat the internship and re-enroll in the subject.
Awarding MHs (honours) involves a special mention for excellence regarding level of achievement, content, formal aspects and assessment practices as a whole (workshops submitted work, tutor evaluation sheet). MH can only be proposed by university supervisors.
MHs cannot be entered directly on the students' records. Supervisors who wish to award an MH to a student will need to make a formal proposal to the Practicum Committee, because the number of MH that can be awarded is limited.
Bibliography and resources
Students can use the notes of the subjects that will be referenced at the end of work in addition to the literature of the subjects own mention.
For reference books, articles and other documents consulted should use APA standards.
In webgrafía must state the date of the consultation document.
Fuertes, M.T. (2011). La observación de las prácticas educativas como elemento de evaluación y de mejora de la calidad en la formación inicial y continua del profesorado. Revista de Docenci Universitaria vol9, nº 3. A: http://red-u.net/redu/files/journals/1/articles/248/public/248-647-1-PB.pdf