Ensino dos números racionais comparando medidas de unidade

This research aimed to investigate the possibility to develop the process of teaching and learning of the division of rational numbers with guided tasks in interpretation of measure. Adopted as methodology the Didactic Engineering and a didactic sequence in order to develop the work with students of High School. Participated of training sessions twelve students of one state school of Porto Barreiro city - Paran´a. The results of application of the didactic engineering suggest the importance of utilization of guided tasks in interpretation of measure, since strengthened the understanding, on the part of students, the concept of division of fractional rational numbers and contributed for them develop the comprehension of others questions associated to the concept of rational numbers, such as order, equivalence and density.

Demonstração de fórmulas matemáticas no ensino médio

The objective of this study is to analyze the validity of working with proofs in the classroom and to present a partial list of proofs of mathematical formulae of the Brazilian secondary/high school curriculum. The adaptation of the proofs into the knowledge and abilities of a secondary school student should also be considered. How the teaching of proofs is treated in official publications in Brazil and other countries is also described. Working with proofs provides a number of benefits to the students, including: the development of logical reasoning, argumentative capacity, analytical skills on a daily basis, as well as motivation and a better understanding of mathematics as a science. The convenience of including the teaching of proofs in Brazilian secondary school curriculum and the need of a balance between the abstraction of proofs and contextualization of the school programmes is discussed. The approach of the proof teaching in the classroom can become a motivating factor or, conversely, a discouraging one. The conclusion is that it would be very useful to create a reference list covering the mathematical expressions of school programmes with their respective proofs that can be understood by secondary school students.

Análise de aspectos sociocientíficos em questões de química do Enem: subsídio para a elaboração de material didático para a formação cidadã

Acompanha: Manual didático: o emprego de aspectos sociocientíficos no ensino de química

Formação docente continuada, desenvolvimento de práticas pedagógicas em sala de aula e promoção da saúde do professor: relações necessárias

This article presents an analysis of the results of an action of teacher continuing education in a public Brazilian university. It presents and discusses relations that proved to be necessary between the aforementioned action, the development of classroom pedagogical practices and the promotion of teachers’ health. Its theoretical and methodological foundations consist on a clinic, developmental and dialogic-argumentative character and employ the method of simple and crossed self-confrontation,in order to address professional teaching gestures. The results indicate the necessity of actions related to teachers’ continuing education, focused primarily on the concrete classroom work, which, in addition to allowing the development of pedagogical practices, makes the promotion of teachers’ health itself possible.

Relatório final de estágio realizado na Escola Básica 2, 3 Gaspar Correia

O presente relatório é referente ao processo de Estágio Pedagógico que realizei no ano letivo 2015/2016. Este momento de formação caracterizou-se pela minha integração, enquanto professora estagiária, no contexto profissional sob a supervisão pedagógica dos professores orientadores de escola e de faculdade. O processo de lecionação das aulas de Educação Física e das sessões de treino do Desporto Escolar, bem com a Investigação sobre o contexto escolar específico e o acompanhamento da Diretora de Turma permitiram-me conhecer as diversas funções relacionadas com a profissão docente e, consequentemente, a aquisição de uma maior competência pedagógica. O percurso de descoberta sistemática que vivenciei, aliado à supervisão constante dos professores orientadores de estágio, permitiram-me a consciencialização de todas as dificuldades reais do processo de ensino-aprendizagem e a superação apropriada de cada uma. Neste relatório pretendo dar a conhecer a experiência por mim vivida ao longo de todo o ano letivo, em cada umas das áreas e subáreas de desenvolvimento a que fui sujeita. Ao longo do ano consegui assimilar com qualidade as competências de planeamento, condução e avaliação através das práticas por mim realizadas, da reflexão constante sobre estas, do estudo autónomo e da partilha de conhecimento que ocorreu sistematicamente entre os elementos do núcleo de estágio. Tais experiências contribuíram para que me tornasse mais competente no desempenho da função docente, processo que deverei manter em constante construção. A maior conclusão que pude retirar reflete-se ao nível do processo de ensino-aprendizagem que deve estar centrado no aluno, procurando desenvolver a motivação que permitirá a cada um alcançar o seu sucesso.

Relatório final de estágio realizado na Escola Secundária da Amadora

O presente relatório visa ilustrar uma reflexão crítica e projetiva sobre as práticas desenvolvidas no estágio pedagógico em Educação Física, realizado na Escola Secundária da Amadora, durante o ano letivo 2015/2016. Este momento de formação carateriza-se pela integração do jovem professor no mundo da docência, possibilitando, por isso, a experimentação de diversas funções relacionadas com esta profissão: a lecionação de aulas de Educação Física, o acompanhamento de um núcleo de Desporto Escolar, o acompanhamento de um Diretor de Turma e a investigação. Ao longo do relatório é dada a conhecer toda a experiência vivida durante o ano letivo, as dificuldades sentidas em cada uma das áreas de intervenção, as estratégias usadas para as ultrapassar e ainda a contribuição destas para o meu desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional. Fazendo o balanço final, as minhas competências enquanto professora, nos vários papeis que a profissão integra, foram sendo melhoradas ao longo do ano, através da experiência, do estudo autónomo, da autorreflexão e da reflexão em grupo, contribuindo, assim, para que me tornasse mais competente na função docente. Contudo, este processo manter-se-á em construção, pois o professor deve estar em contante atualização de forma a potenciar o sucesso educativo dos alunos.

Aligning ICT in assessment with teaching and learning : enhancing student achievement in the middle years

Student underachievement in the middle years (typically Years 4 to 9) is a concern in education. Incorporating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in assessment that is aligned to teaching and learning has the potential to engage students in higher cognitive processes that lead to increased student achievement. To examine this proposition an investigation was undertaken into teachers’ perceptions of alignment and the implications of those for student achievement in ICT enhanced middle years assessment tasks. This investigation used a collective case study design underpinned by socio-cultural theory. Two methods were used for data collection, namely, semi-structured interviews with individual teachers and a focus group discussion with teachers and another with students. Findings revealed teachers’ perceptions that alignment: assists in mediating achievement of learning outcomes in quality middle years assessment tasks, assists in creating a challenging but supportive environment in which positive learning dispositions and success is encouraged for all students, and contributes to more rigorous use of ICT in assessment. The process of implementing alignment was found to be complex but assisted through prioritising particular practices. These findings enabled the development of eight steps which serve as a guide to the effective implementation of alignment in middle years assessment tasks.

Academic practice as explanatory framework : reconceptualising international student academic engagement and university teaching

This paper joins growing interest in the concept of practice, and uses it to reconceptualise international student engagement with the demands of study at an Australian university. Practice foregrounds institutional structures and student agency and brings together psychologically- and socially-oriented perspectives on international student learning approaches. Utilising discourse theory, practice is defined as habitual and individual instances of socially-contextualised configurations of elements such as actions and interactions, roles and relations, identities, objects, values, and language. In the university context, academic practice highlights the institutionally-sanctioned ways of knowing, doing and being that constitute academic tasks. The concept is applied here to six international students’ ‘readings’ of and strategic responses to academic work in a Master of Education course. It is argued that academic practice provides a comprehensive framework for explaining the interface between university academic requirements and international student learning, and the crucial role that teaching has in facilitating the experience.

Teaching and assessing critical thinking : the interaction of student approaches to learning and teaching approaches

This study explored the relationship among student approaches to learning and teaching methods on critical thinking in two business units. Key findings included differences in critical thinking scores between student approaches to learning and some evidence of an interaction between student approaches to learning and critical thinking teach method (immersion vs. infusion). Possible explanations for the results are examined and implications for developing critical thinking skills across a degree discussed. What is apparent is that as Universities move towards program-wide level assessment of critical thinking, further work is required in terms of the design of critical thinking teaching interventions and assessment at the unit, school, and degree level. The session will discuss the challenges in developing critical thinking programs in individual units and at the Faculty level.

Team teaching : working together to promote student learning

This book chapter examines the concept of team teaching from the perspective of the various stakeholders, in order to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of team teaching for students, to consider the positive and negative dimensions of collaborative teaching for teachers, and to review the implications for educational administration. In addition, attention will be paid to the issues associated with team teaching in the context of e-learning. The chapter concludes with a case study which discusses how the implementation of collaborative teaching within the library and information science discipline at an Australian university helped develop the authors’ understanding of socially constructed knowledge.

Framing student evaluations of university learning and teaching : discursive strategies and textual outcomes

Evaluation in higher education is an evolving social practice, that is, it involves what people, institutions and broader systems do and say, how they do and say it, what they value, the effects of these practices and values, and how meanings are ascribed. The textual products (verbal, written, visual, gestural) that inform and are produced by, for and through evaluative practices are important as they promulgate particular kinds of meanings and values in specific contexts. This paper reports on an exploratory study that sought to investigate, using discourse analysis, the types of evaluative practices that were ascribed value, and the student responses that ensued, in different evaluative instruments. Findings indicate that when a reflective approach is taken to evaluation, students’ responses are more considered, they interrogate their own engagement in the learning context and they are more likely to demonstrate reconstructive thought. These findings have implications for reframing evaluation as reflective learning.