Relatório de estágio

O presente relatório espelha o processo de desenvolvimento e aprendizagem da mestranda no âmbito das unidades curriculares Prática Pedagógica Supervisionada em Educação Pré-Escolar e no 1.º ciclo do Ensino Básico, integradas no Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Enquanto futura profissional de educação, os saberes adquiridos e mobilizados ao longo das Práticas Pedagógicas Supervisionadas e da sua formação inicial foram imprescindíveis para uma ação educativa sustentada tanto para os momentos de estágio como para a sua prática futura. O quadro teórico que sustentou a sua ação permitiu-lhe o desenvolvimento da sua pessoalidade na forma de pensar e agir no contexto, com vista a uma melhor prática educativa. A metodologia de investigação-ação teve também um papel preponderante no processo de aprendizagem da mestranda. Esta metodologia é cíclica e integra as fases da observação, planificação, ação, avaliação e reflexão. Esta metodologia possibilitou à mestranda a planificação da sua ação educativa de forma intencional, de acordo com as especificidades dos dois grupos de crianças com que contactou diariamente nos diferentes contextos. Assim, a formanda procurou desenvolver as suas competências profissionais tendo por base a perspetiva holística e construtivista da educação – a criança no cerne do seu processo de ensino e aprendizagem – adotando, para isso, uma atitude indagadora, investigadora, reflexiva e crítica, com vista à melhoria das suas práticas. Através de processos reflexivos e colaborativos, esta formação permitiu à mestranda a construção de um perfil profissional duplo constituindo-se assim como o primeiro passo para a sua formação/aprendizagem ao longo da vida da mestranda.

Estratégias de ensino promotoras de aprendizagens e do pensamento crítico

Relatório de estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti para a obtenção de grau de mestre em Educação Pré-Escolar e em Ensino do 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico

Prática de ensino supervisionada em educação pré-escolar e ensino do 1º ciclo do ensino básico: tornando-se educadora/professora

O presente relatório da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada (PES) resulta da observação e participação no contexto da PES em Educação Pré-Escolar realizado em Florianópolis, Santa Catarina (Brasil), através do programa Luso-Brasileiro, no Núcleo de Educação Infantil Colónia Z-11 e da PES em 1º Ciclo do Ensino Básico na Escola EB1 da Quinta da Vista Alegre, pertencente ao Agrupamento Manuel Ferreira Patrício de Évora. O relatório centra-se no meu percurso e aprendizagens como futura educadora/professora: ir aprendendo a profissão em contexto, indo ao encontro de quem somos e em quem nos vamos tornando, dando enfase ao papel das crianças nos processos de aprendizagem que experimentámos. Na conceção da ação educativa, tornada prática pedagógica em contexto, a avaliação, formativa e transformadora, assim como a reflexão acerca da prática foram fundamentais para o melhoramento da intervenção e, por tal, influências positivas na aprendizagem das crianças e na minha aprendizagem profissional. A problemática deste relatório teve como base o querer compreender relações entre uma reflexão sistemática, por escrito, sobre o desenvolvimento do meu projeto de formação em contexto, considerando que a avaliação formativa deveria nortear e monitorizar o nosso trabalho, as relações e aprendizagens, na ação docente que ia desenvolvendo, quer em Educação Pré-Escolar quer no 1º Ciclo. Neste percurso, entrelaçando a ação e a investigação, procurei respostas para as seguintes questões: o que sabia acerca da docência que se pauta por uma avaliação formativa e formadora no trabalho com crianças? O que fiz para aprendermos em conjunto, tendo em conta uma função reguladora que a avaliação poderia tomar? Como o fiz? Em que momentos e com quem? Para quê, com que finalidade? O que aprendi no decorrer deste processo de aprendizagem profissional, onde a investigação-ação teve um papel relevante?; Supervised Teaching Practice’s Report to obtain a Master’s Degree in Preschool and Primary school: Abstract: The present report of Supervised Teaching Practice (STP) is a result of the observation and participation in context of STP in pre-school that took place in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina (Brazil), through the Luso-Brazilian program, in Núcleo de Educação Infantil Colónia Z-11 and through STP in Primary School of Ensino Básico in Escola EB1 da Quinta da Vista Alegre, which belongs to the Manuel Ferreira de Évora Group. The report focuses on my journey and learnings as a future teacher: learning the profession in it’s actual context, trying to find who we are and what we can become, and emphasizing the children’s role in these learning processes. In the conception of the education activities, which became possible by pedagogical practice in context, the evaluation, formative and transformative, as well as the reflection about the practice were vital to improve the intervention and, consequently, to have a positive influence in the children’s learning process and in my own professional experience. The main focus of this report is to understand the relation between a systematic reflection, in writing, about the development of my teaching in context project, considering that the formative evaluation should guide and monitor our work, the relationships and learnings, in the educational process that I developed, either in pre-school or primary school. In this journey, by combining action and investigation, the main intention was to answer the following questions: What did I know about teaching characterized by a formative assessment when working with children? What did I do so we could learn together, bearing in mind a regulative function that evaluation could take? How did I do it? In what moments and whom with? What for, and what was the purpose? What did I learn throughout this professional learning process, where the investigation-action played a major role?

Prática de ensino supervisionada em educação pré-escolar e ensino do 1º ciclo do ensino básico: explorando a simetria na infância

O presente relatório é referente à investigação realizada no âmbito das unidades curriculares da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada em Pré-Escolar e 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, do Mestrado em Educação Pré-Escolar e Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, da Universidade de Évora. A investigação foi realizada em contexto de uma sala de Pré-Escolar e em contexto de 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico, numa turma de 2.º ano. Os dois contextos fazem parte da Escola Manuel Ferreira Patrício, sede do Agrupamento de Escolas n.º 1 de Évora. A respetiva investigação teve como objetivos compreender, analisar e refletir acerca da exploração da simetria de reflexão em Pré-Escolar e em 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico. Deste modo, era pretendido responder às seguintes questões: “Como lidam as/os crianças/alunos com a identificação e a exploração de simetria de reflexão?” e “Que práticas devo desenvolver que contribuam para a compreensão e utilização da simetria de reflexão por parte das crianças?”. No decorrer da investigação foi desenvolvida uma intervenção didática em cada contexto, consistindo em sequências de tarefas de exploração de simetria que se caracterizaram por recorrer a diversos materiais e ao computador com o programa SIMIS, em 1.º Ciclo, com tarefas abertas de natureza exploratória. A recolha de dados apoiou-se nos cadernos de formação relativos às PES, nas planificações, nas produções das crianças, em respostas às tarefas e excertos dos diálogos havidos. Esta investigação permitiu verificar que é possível explorar a simetria no Pré- Escolar e 1.ºCiclo de Ensino Básico, uma vez que as crianças reconheceram figuras com simetria, conseguiram identificar eixos de simetria em figuras e construíram figuras simétricas. Para tal, desenvolveram-se práticas que contribuíram para a compreensão e utilização da simetria, através de estratégias de ensino-aprendizagem exploratório da Matemática, com recurso a materiais manipuláveis e a software específico, que mostraram ser ferramentas essenciais nas tarefas de exploração e identificação de simetria; ABSTRACT: The present report refers to research developed in the context of Supervised Teaching Practice in Pre-school Education and in Primary School, integrated in Master’s degree in Pre-school Education and Teaching Primary School at University of Évora. The research was conducted in context of a pre-school room and in context of 1st cycle of basic education, in a 2nd class year. The two contexts are part of the Manuel Ferreira Patrício School, headquarters of cluster of Évora schools. The respective research has aimed understand, analyze and reflect about reflection symmetry exploration, in Pre-school and in Primary School. Thus, was intented to answer the questions: “How childrens deal with the identification and exploration of reflection symmetry?" And "What practices should be developed to contribute to the understanding and use of reflection symmetry by childrens?". During the research it was developed a didactic intervention, in each context, consisting of sequences of symmetry exploration tasks that featured by resorting to diverse materials and the computer with the SIMIS program in the Primary School, with open tasks exploratory. Data collection builds on the training books on STP, the flat patterns, in productions of children, in response tasks and excerpts from the additions accruing dialogues. This research has shown that it is possible to explore the symmetry in Preschool and Primary School, since children recognized figures with symmetry, they were able to identify lines of symmetry in figures and built symmetrical figures. For such practices have developed that have contributed to the understanding and use of symmetry, through exploratory teaching and learning strategies of mathematics, using manipulatives and specific software, which proved to be essential tools in the exploration tasks and identification symmetry.

Maternal smoking during pregnancy and primary headache in school-aged children: a cohort study

Background: It is not known whether smoking by mothers during pregnancy is associated with headache in their offspring. Methods: Two prospective cohorts of 869 children aged 10-11 years from Ribeirao Preto (RP) and 805 children aged 7-9 years from Sao Luis (SL) were studied. Data on maternal smoking were collected at birth. Primary headache was defined as a reporting of >= 2 episodes of headache in the past 2 weeks, without any associated organic symptoms. Results: Prevalence of headache was 28.1% in RP and 13.1% in SL as reported by the mothers and 17.5% in RP and 29.4% in SL as reported by the children. Agreement between mothers' report and children's self-report of primary headache in the child was poor. After adjustment, children whose mothers smoked >= 10 cigarettes per day during pregnancy presented higher prevalence of primary headache than their counterparts in both cohorts, as reported by the mother and in RP as reported by the children. Conclusions: Maternal smoking during pregnancy was associated with headache in 7- to 11-year-olds. With one exception, the consistency of the results, despite poor agreement between maternal and children reports of headache, indicates that maternal smoking during pregnancy may contribute to headaches in their children.

Reducing visual deficits caused by refractive errors in school and preschool children: results of a pilot school program in the Andean region of Apurimac, Peru

Background: Refractive error is defined as the inability of the eye to bring parallel rays of light into focus on the retina, resulting in nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (Hyperopia) or astigmatism. Uncorrected refractive error in children is associated with increased morbidity and reduced educational opportunities. Vision screening (VS) is a method for identifying children with visual impairment or eye conditions likely to lead to visual impairment. Objective: To analyze the utility of vision screening conducted by teachers and to contribute to a better estimation of the prevalence of childhood refractive errors in Apurimac, Peru. Design: A pilot vision screening program in preschool (Group I) and elementary school children (Group II) was conducted with the participation of 26 trained teachers. Children whose visual acuity was<6/9 [20/30] (Group I) and≤6/9 (Group II) in one or both eyes, measured with the Snellen Tumbling E chart at 6 m, were referred for a comprehensive eye exam. Specificity and positive predictive value to detect refractive error were calculated against clinical examination. Program assessment with participants was conducted to evaluate outcomes and procedures. Results: A total sample of 364 children aged 3–11 were screened; 45 children were examined at Centro Oftalmológico Monseñor Enrique Pelach (COMEP) Eye Hospital. Prevalence of refractive error was 6.2% (Group I) and 6.9% (Group II); specificity of teacher vision screening was 95.8% and 93.0%, while positive predictive value was 59.1% and 47.8% for each group, respectively. Aspects highlighted to improve the program included extending training, increasing parental involvement, and helping referred children to attend the hospital. Conclusion: Prevalence of refractive error in children is significant in the region. Vision screening performed by trained teachers is a valid intervention for early detection of refractive error, including screening of preschool children. Program sustainability and improvements in education and quality of life resulting from childhood vision screening require further research.

Quantifying the association between physical activity and injury in primary school-aged children

BACKGROUND. Regular physical activity is strongly advocated in children, with recommendations suggesting up to several hours of daily participation. However, an unintended consequence of physical activity is exposure to the risk of injury. To date, these risks have not been quantified in primary school-aged children despite injury being a leading cause for hospitalization and death in this population. OBJECT. Our goal was to quantify the risk of injury associated with childhood physical activity both in and out of the school setting and calculate injury rates per exposure time for organized and non-organized activity outside of school. METHODS. The Childhood Injury Prevention Study prospectively followed a cohort of randomly selected Australian primary school- and preschool-aged children (4 to 12 years). Over 12 months, each injury that required first aid attention was registered with the study. Exposure to physical activity outside school hours was measured by using a parent-completed 7-day diary. The age and gender distribution of injury rates per 10 000 hours of exposure were calculated for all activity and for organized and non-organized activity occurring outside school hours. In addition, child-based injury rates were calculated for physical activity-related injuries both in and out of the school setting. RESULTS. Complete diary and injury data were available for 744 children. There were 504 injuries recorded over the study period, 396 (88.6%) of which were directly related to physical activity. Thirty-four percent of physical activity-related injuries required professional medical treatment. Analysis of injuries occurring outside of school revealed an overall injury rate of 5.7 injuries per 10 000 hours of exposure to physical activity and a medically treated injury rate of 1.7 per 10 000 hours. CONCLUSION. Injury rates per hours of exposure to physical activity were low in this cohort of primary school-aged children, with < 2 injuries requiring medical treatment occurring for every 10 000 hours of activity participation outside of school.

2016-2017 SC Farm to Preschool and SC Farm to School Program Sites

This is a list and map of South Carolina schools involved in the SC Farm to Preschool and SC Farm to School Program.

Discriminating between primary school students with high and low self-esteem.

From an initial sample of 747 primary school students, the top 16 percent (n =116) with high self-esteem (HSE) and the bottom 15 percent (n = I1 I) with low selfesteem (LSE) were se/eeted. These two groups were then compared on personal and classroom variables. Significant differences were found for all personal (self-talk, selfconcepts) and classroom (teacher feedback, praise, teacher-student relationship, and classroom environment) variables. Students with HSE scored more highly on all variables. Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA) was then used to determine which variables discriminated between these two groups of students. Learner self-concept, positive and negative self-talk, classroom environment, and effort feedback were the best discriminators of students with high and low self-esteem. Implications for educational psychologists and teachers are discussed.

Self-esteem and self-talk enhancement in upper primary school children

Not all programmes aimed at enhancing children's self-esteem have been successful. This article evaluates the impact of two programmes and offers activities which can be used in the classroom.

Self-talk in upper primary school children : its relationship with irrational beliefs, self-esteem and depression

Self-talk, irrational beliefs, self-esteem and depression were measured in a sample of 105 elementary school children in Grades 4 to 7. Sex and grade differences in positive self-talk were found. The pattern of correlation coefficients for positive self-talk supported the substantive position that positive self-talk is positively related to self-esteem and negatively related to irrational beliefs and depression in a non-clinical sample of children. However, the same support was not forthcoming for the reverse relationships for negative self-talk. Therapeutic implications are outlined as are suggestions for future research in the area of children's self-talk.