Teaching Psychology

Recommended Prerequisites

No reference.

Teaching Methods

Fundamentally, the students' expository, demonstrative strategies will be used, as well as discussion and also guided research. The use of lesson plans, current programs, materials and teaching and learning resources will be systematically used. Students will carry out class planning tasks and develop strategies for assessing knowledge and skills.

Learning Outcomes

What, why, how, plan the educational action

Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn

- Learn to plan lessons, sessions

- Know how to manage the interaction time

- Know how to select content

- Know how to evaluate skills, contents (educational evaluation)

- Know the curricula and programs

- Identify learning and teaching strategies and resources

- Update learning and teaching strategies and resources.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Block 1: epistemological framework of the teaching of psychology

Themes

1. Conceptualization of teaching of psychology: the scientific study of the teaching of Psychology

2. Skills / professional profile / teacher (functional analysis of intervention);

3. Contexts of intervention, the Portuguese educational system (

4. Methodological guidelines for teaching (models and perspectives)

 

Block 2: Teaching-learning process

Themes

1. agents and components

2. the planning process (components)

3. the interaction process (models and resources)

4. the evaluation process (types and resources).

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Paula Mendes Correia Couceiro Figueira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic evaluation: 1. presentation of the individual project, oral and written: 30% 2. presentation of the final report of the project, individual and written: 70% Time of Appeal: Written test contemplating all the material: 100.0%

Bibliography

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Barros, C.C. (2007). Reflexões sobre a formação de professores de Psicologia. Temas em Psicologia, pepsic.bvsalud.org

Bernstein, D. A. (2003) The national institute on the teaching of psychology: twenty-five years and counting. In W. Buskist, V. Hevern, & G. W. Hill, IV, (Eds.), Essays from excellence in teaching (Vol. II, pp. 20–22). Society for the Teaching of Psychology.

Damião, H. (1997b). De Aluno a Professor. Coimbra, Minerva

Figueira, A. P. (2013). Sou, quero ser, professor …. Tradicional, comportamentalista ou construtivista? - Manual de autoformação de professores. Guia de autoconhecimento. Germany: Novas edições académicas

Griggs, R. A., & Jackson, S. L. (2011). Teaching introductory psychology: Tips from ToP.