| COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Promote the personal and professional development of early childhood educators and primary school teachers.
- Raise awareness of early childhood educators and primary school teachers to the importance of science education in the first years of learning.
- Promote the acquisition of knowledge and the development of skills related to scientific and pedagogical learning in pre-school education and the 1st Cycle of Basic Education.
- Promote in trainees analysis and reflection on practice based on their own teaching-learning concepts.
- Provide situations that allow educational professionals to reflect on how (new) knowledge and skills can be transferred to their practices.
| CONTENTS
The contents or themes of this course are related to the following aspects:
- Transitions: continuities and discontinuities, this being the guiding and unifying theme on the horizon of this course.
- Educational Environments and their Connections: structuring element of pedagogical activity.
- Planning and Assessment, as interdependent acts that are revisited throughout the exploration of different themes.
- Development of scientific awareness
- Development of activities in Natural and Social Sciences
- Development of teaching strategies
- Preparation of final works.
- Presentation of work and conclusion of training