26526 - Didactics: Spanish in Child Education
Compulsory
5.1. Methodological overview
The learning process designed for this subject is based on the following:
The learning process designed for this subject is based on the teacher presenting and explaining in class the most relevant aspects that sustain children’s linguistic education, such as didactic aspects, methodological approaches, evaluation guidelines, etc., for teaching the communication and linguistic skills needed for oral communication, and to help Children’s Education students approach written communication.
The methodology includes several learning situations:
1. Reading and presenting documents and reference articles about theoretical themes as a basis of the practical part of the subject.
2. Activities to apply concepts, debates and discussions about observing and analysing the language of children studying Children’s Education, and also with the curricular materials that correspond to the different learning situations and levels of the Spanish language in this stage.
3. Designing and planning by applying the learnt strategies with various teaching activities and resources, which are adapted to not only the different contexts in the speciality, but also to distinct methodologies.
4. Analysing and collectively commenting on the developed designs.
5.2. Learning tasks
The programme for students is to help them obtain the expected results and includes the following activities:
Face-to-face activities (60 hours):
1. The teacher presents its contents.
2. Final evaluation test.
3. Practical classes of the subject matter:
Face-to-face activities:
Some face-to-face activities to be undertaken include:
- Presenting and commenting on cases and tasks in class.
- Talks about the curriculum in this area.
- Presenting books or articles related with teaching oral or written language.
- Talks about the reading-writing method, an evaluation test or a given didactic material.
- A child’s oral or written language report with recordings.
- Presenting the typical didactic units of a given educational stage.
- Activities for reflections, comments, debates and applications using theoretical contents, legislation, technical procedures, scientific or academic texts, didactic resources, etc., in class.
Virtual activities (90 hours):
- Individual autonomous work: personal reading and studying scientific texts and legislation in the area to comment on and discuss in class.
- Reading and analysing a method, an evaluation test, didactic material, etc.
- Undertaking guided academic activities by applying the patterns that the teacher offers, to: prepare a didactic unit; record and analyse the oral/written language of children studying Children’s Education.
- Studying and preparing for the exam.
- Volunteer activities: through their own initiative or guided by their teacher’s suggestion, students can undertake voluntary activities or tasks in the knowledge area of the subject matter if they wish.