Internship and Report

Recommended Prerequisites

Completion of the 1^st year of the program.

Teaching Methods

Supervised teaching practice involves supervision by the school supervisor, with observation and assessment of the trainees' lessons, participation in work sessions and other school activities. It also includes monitoring by the FLUC supervisor, with lesson observations and support in planning and reflecting on teaching performance. Trainees carry out a critical self-assessment of their performance and that of their colleagues. In addition, the FLUC supervisor provides individual support for bibliographical research and the preparation of the final internship report.

Learning Outcomes

A. Internship:

Teacher trainees should develop:

1. Skills in adequate lesson planning, combining teaching materials and strategies and justifying their choices;

2. Teaching skills, including an adequate management of time, communication and interaction in class;

3. Skills in developing and applying assessment instruments;

4. An awareness of the responsibilities associated with the teaching profession;

5. The ability to learn from observation, experience, critical analysis and reflection, as well as from research on the pedagogical-didactic topic they chose, carried out within the context of the seminars and applied during their teaching practice.

B. Final MA Report

Students should develop:

1. Skills in analyzing and reflecting on their training activities;

2. The ability to conduct research on a pedagogical-didactic topic, making use of bibliographic sources and relating their research to their teaching practice, as well as presenting their findings in a coherent and reflective manner

Work Placement(s)

Yes

Syllabus

A.Internship
1. Observation of lessons taught by the Supervising Teacher and other trainees; participation in other activities carried out by the
Supervising Teacher
2. Lesson planning and teaching, followed by critical analysis;
3. Reflection on the following topics, in work sessions with the Supervising Teacher:
a)Lesson plans: structure, contents & goals
b)Teaching materials: selection, production, inclusion in lesson plans
c)Teaching strategies and activities: adequacy, diversity, coherence
d)Classroom management: time, communication & interaction
e)Assessment instruments & correction criteria
f)Use of linguistic, communicative & cultural competence in teaching.
B.Final MA Report
1. Description and critical assessment of internship activities.
2. Presentation of the selected pedagogical-didactic topic and underlying research, interconnecting critically and coherently the bibliographic sources used, the application of knowledge gained therefrom to teaching, and the results achieved

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Isabel Pires Pereira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Teaching Report: 100.0%

Assessment
Final MA Report: 30.0%
Supervised teaching practice: 70.0%

Bibliography

A bibliografia varia consoante as áreas disciplinares e os temas escolhidos por cada formando/a para o seu relatório final| References depend on the teacher trainees' fields of study and the topics chosen for their final report.