Programa em numeracia: proposta para a medida Currículo Específico Individual

The numeracy deals with the study of the ability to apply mathematical knowledge on solving everyday life problems (Goos, Geiger, & Dole, 2012; Ponte, 2002; Steen, 2001; Cockcroft, 1982) and appears to us as an essential dimension to programming in special education, for its applicability to the everyday life of individuals. For this, it seemed relevant to perceive essential competences that promote greater autonomy to the students in school-age and with profiles of functionality that express heightened difficulties in the use of skills normally associated with numeracy. In order to implementing it, it was made a content and documentary analysis, on the subject area of Mathematics, of three guiding documents: (a) Curriculum Guidelines – Presschool Education; (b) Mathematics Program – 1st Cycle; (c) Curricular Goals – Presschool and 1st Cycle. The analysis focused in the field of numeracy, i.e. were considered the contents related to the development of competences in the field of Numbers and Operationsà a????dà su????do????ai????àMo????e????àa????dàTi????eàDo????ai????àGeo????et????????àa????dàMeasu????e????e????t.àAs a result of this procedure, it has been elaborated a flexible program and with the capacity of adequacy to the most diverse profiles of functionality, in particular those that depict situations of greater complexity and gravity. The study suggests the possibility that, on the basis of available documents guiding teaching and learning, one can find a flexible and progressive program with an equivalent matrix, available for use and allowing the adoption of a reference and a common language in the context of special education.

Relatório de estágio de qualificação profissional

Relatório EPE - Relatório de estágio em Educação Pré-Escolar: O presente Relatório de Estágio de Qualificação Profissional situa-se no contexto de Educação Pré-Escolar, tendo como propósito revelar o que foi sendo realizado no Centro Social da Paróquia Nossa Senhora da Ajuda ao longo de quatro meses em contexto de creche. A prática educativa sustentou-se num quadro teórico-concetual de referência, com vista à construção de saberes para a Educação de Infância, pelo compromisso e responsabilização progressiva da ação docente, tendo sido encarado como um momento de singular importância. O contexto de formação assumiu-se, portanto, como um lugar privilegiado de articulação entre teoria e prática, onde o processo de ensino e aprendizagem ficou pautado por intencionalidades educativas com vista ao desenvolvimento integral de cada criança, bem como para a construção de saberes e competências profissionais. No âmbito da investigação-ação e associada à observação, à planificação, à avaliação e à ação propriamente dita, esteve sempre presente a comunicação e a articulação, pois são estas etapas interligadas que revelam a intencionalidade do processo educativo que carateriza a intervenção profissional do educador. A reflexão evidenciou-se também fulcral, pois só mediante uma reflexão na ação e sobre a ação é possível uma introspeção pessoal, despoletando uma compreensão mais sustentada da ação, facilitando a tomada de decisões conscientes. Salienta-se, ainda, a importância de uma formação profissional ao longo da vida, de modo a potenciar o desenvolvimento de uma atitude perante a Educação cada vez mais crítica, indagadora e reflexiva, em prol do desenvolvimento de cada criança.

LSP communication in a digital age: the outcomes of teaching and learning in tertiary education

This paper discusses the changes brought by the communication revolution in teaching and learning in the scope of LSP. Its aim is to provide an insight on how teaching which was bi-dimensional, turned into a multidimensional system, gathering other complementary resources that have transformed, in a incredibly short time, the ways we receive share and store information, for instance as professionals, and keep in touch with our peers. The increasing rise of electronic publications, the incredible boom of social and professional networks, search engines, blogs, list servs, forums, e-mail blasts, Facebook pages, YouTube contents, Tweets and Apps, have twisted the way information is conveyed. Classes ceased to be predictable and have been empowered by digital platforms, innumerous and different data repositories (TILDE, IATE, LINGUEE, and so many other terminological data banks) that have definitely transformed the academic world in general and tertiary education in particular. There is a bulk of information to be digested by students, who are no longer passive but instead responsible and active for their academic outcomes. The question is whether they possess the tools to select only what is accurate and important for a certain subject or assignment, due to that overflow? Due to the reduction of the number of course years in most degrees, after the implementation of Bologna and the shrinking of the curricula contents, have students the possibility of developing critical thinking? Both teaching and learning rely on digital resources to improve the speed of the spreading of knowledge. But have those changes been effective to promote really communication? Furthermore, with the increasing Apps that have already been developed and will continue to appear for learning foreign languages, for translation among others, will the students feel the need of learning them once they have those Apps. These are some the questions we would like to discuss in our paper.

Standard commercial education robotic platform: intermediate solution to teaching robotics

Teaching robotics to students at the beginning of their studies has become a huge challenge. Simulation environments can be an effective solution to that challenge where students can interact with simulated robots and have the first contact with robotic constraints. From our previous experience with simulation environments it was possible to observe that students with lower background knowledge in robotics where able to deal with a limited number of constraints, implement a simulated robotic platform and study several sensors. The question is: after this first phase what should be the best approach? Should the student start developing their own hardware? Hardware development is a very important part of an engineer's education but it can also be a difficult phase that could lead to discouragement and loss of motivation in some students. Considering the previous constraints and first year engineering students’ high abandonment rate it is important to develop teaching strategies to deal with this problem in a feasible way. The solution that we propose is the integration of a low-cost standard robotic platform WowWee Rovio as an intermediate solution between the simulation phase and the stage where the students can develop their own robots. This approach will allow the students to keep working in robotic areas such as: cooperative behaviour, perception, navigation and data fusion. The propose approach proved to be a motivation step not only for the students but also for the teachers. Students and teachers were able to reach an agreement between the level of demand imposed by the teachers and satisfaction/motivation of the students.