Foundation literacy : teaching the early years.

Siete unidades didácticas, cada una con un tema a específico, se centran en metas y objetivos claves en el aprendizaje temprano. Todas las unidades se basan en versiones habladas o escritas de textos apropiados, y se centran en el juego como punto de partida para la unidad. El uso de temas apoyan en los niños los propios intereses y el sentido de la curiosidad, cada unidad dispone: una serie progresiva de actividades para estimular el desarrollo de los niños desde la etapa preescolar. Historias y textos, utilizando la palabra y la escucha, dan oportunidades para trabajar con toda la clase, e ideas para pequeños grupos de trabajo.

Literature, literacy and the discourses of English teaching: a case study

This article examines the discourses of English teaching, and their implications for subject and literacy teaching and learning. Case study evidence is presented to illustrate the ways in which competing discourses are enacted in the classroom. We argue the need to critically examine the educational value of teacher discourses, which have an important impact on instructional practices and the quality of pupils' learning.

Teaching Information Literacy to Undergraduate Students: Reflecting on the Past, Present and Future of Library Instruction

The need to teach information literacy skills to undergraduate students is often framed as a 21st century concern, but debate over the value and practice of teaching this set of skills can be found as far back as the early 1900’s. This article reviews the history of information literacy instruction in academic libraries from its origins to the present, examines the current state of information literacy instruction in academic libraries, and explores possible future directions that this instruction may take. Looking to the past, present and future shows that while library instruction has evolved, many central concerns remain unanswered.

The implementation of a literacy intervention 'Station Teaching' in infant classes in Irish primary schools

Background: I conducted my research in the context of The National Literacy Strategy (DES, 2011), which maintains that every young person should be literate and it outlines targets for improving literacy in schools from 2011 to 2020. There has been much debate on the teaching of literacy and in particular the teaching of reading. Clark (2014) outlines how learning to read should be a developmental language process and that the approaches in the early years of schooling will colour the children’s motivation and their perception of reading as a purposeful activity. The acquisition of literacy begins in the home but this study focuses on the implementation of a literacy intervention Station Teaching in the infant classes in primary school. Station Teaching occurs when a class is divided into four or five small groups of pupils and they receive intensive tuition at four or five different Stations with the help of Support teachers: New Reading, Familiar Reading, Phonics, Writing and Oral Language. Research Questions: These research questions frame my study: How is Station Teaching implemented? What is the experience of the intervention Station Teaching from the participants’ point of view: teachers, pupils, parents? What notion of literacy is Station Teaching facilitating? Methods: I chose a pragmatic parallel mixed methods design as suggested by Mertens (2010). I collected and analysed both the quantitative and qualitative data to answer the study’s research questions. In the study the quantitative data were collected from a questionnaire issued to 21 schools in Ireland. I used Excel as a data management package and thematic analysis to analyse and present the data in themes. I collected qualitative data from a case study in a school. This data included observations of two classes over a period of a year; interviews with teachers, pupils and parents; children’s drawings, photographs, teachers’ diaries and video evidence. I analysed and presented the evidence from the qualitative data in themes. Main Findings: There are many skills and strategies that are essential to effective literacy teaching in the early years including phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension and writing. These skills can be taught during Station Teaching. Early intervention in the early years is essential to pupils’ acquisition of literacy. The expertise of the teacher is key to improving the literacy achievement of pupils Teachers and pupils enjoy participating in ST. Pupils are motivated to read and engage in meaningful activities during ST. Staff collaboration is vital for ST to succeed ST facilitates small group work and teachers can differentiate accordingly while including all pupils in the groups. Pupils’ learning is extended in ST but extension activities need to be addressed in the Writing Station. More training should be provided for teachers on the implementation of ST and more funding for resources should be available to schools Significant contribution of the work: The main significance of the study includes: insights into the classroom implementation of Station Teaching in infant classes and extensive research into characteristics of an effective teacher of literacy.

Virtual globes as a platform for developing spatial literacy

Dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies

Literacy skills of adults with intellectual disability in community-based day programs

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. There is limited information available related to the literacy skills of adults with intellectual disabilities. In this project, information was collected about the contexts, current practices, and clients' abilities in literacy in two community-based disability service programs. Individual assessments were undertaken to collect details of the current literacy levels of adults with intellectual disabilities in day program settings. These assessments focused on receptive language, reading at the letter, word and sentence level, writing vocabulary and connected text, and literacy preferences. Audits were also conducted related to the provision of opportunities for clients accessing these services to engage with literacy including environmental print. Structured day program activities were observed to gather information about current literacy teaching and learning. Implications of the research findings and suggestions for provision of literacy education in these settings are discusse

A dimensão criadora no trabalho docente: subsídios para a formação de professores alfabetizadores

Este artigo tem como objetivo evidenciar a dimensão criadora dos saberes docentes mobilizados por uma professora alfabetizadora, a partir da concepção de saberes docentes desenvolvida pela teoria histórico-cultural. A pesquisa realizou-se em escola pública, no estado de Rondônia, por meio de uma abordagem etnográfica. O trabalho traz para a análise duas cenas recortadas do cotidiano escolar para exemplificar como os saberes docentes são alterados e recriados no enfrentamento dos desafios impostos pela prática pedagógica. Os resultados permitem compreender que a prática docente no cotidiano não se caracteriza apenas como reprodução de modelos ou propostas utilizadas por outros profissionais. Ao contrário, no encontro de uma professora e uma turma de alunos há sempre certa originalidade que demanda a criação de formas específicas de intervenção para aquele grupo, nas condições do contexto. Acompanhar o trabalho da professora durante o período de pesquisa permitiu compreender que há inúmeras possibilidades de condução do trabalho pedagógico e as razões que motivam as escolhas dos professores e das professoras estão fundamentadas em saberes construídos ao longo de suas experiências de formação e atuação. Considera-se, portanto, que as práticas pedagógicas precisam ser conhecidas e estudadas para que se possa compreendê-las, mais do que avaliá-las, tendo-se em vista a contribuição desses estudos para a formação docente.

Globalisation and the reconstruction of the literate child

In New Zealand, the turn from the welfare state since 1984 to a global market driven economy in the early mid 1990s has affected the way that primary curriculum documents have been developed and implemented. Those documents, together with teachers’ handbooks, have in turn affected the way that teachers teach. In particular, the construction of literacy and what constitutes literacy teaching in these documents have affected teachers’ work and have also constructed and are reconstructing childhood and the child literate. The way that teachers teach literacy depends on their constructions of children and childhood and that as their views of childhood and children change, so too do their views of the teaching of literacy. Against this background of locating childhood and children in educational and literacy discourses, other discourses of new technologies, cultural diversity, time and space of “new times” are also challenging the construction of literacy, the literate child and childhood.

Aprendizagem pela Imagem

Este relatório descreve a Prática de Ensino Supervisionada na Escola Secundária Miguel Torga (Monte Abraão) e na Escola 2,3 Eugénio dos Santos (Lisboa) no ano letivo de 2013/2014. A reflexão crítica centrar-se-á na observação de aulas e na prática letiva em vários níveis de ensino: História 8º e 11º ano; Geografia 8º e 9º ano. O relatório está dividido em duas partes. Na primeira, justificou-se o tema central do trabalho – Aprendizagem pela Imagem. Com base em fundamentação teórica e argumentos que defendem a utilização da imagem no ensino-aprendizagem. A imagem é um objeto inteligível e didático, mas requer uma adequada descodificação dos seus significados, essencial para a aquisição de competências e alcançar a desejada literacia visual. Não é necessário o pleno domínio dos signos, mas para analisar uma imagem é necessário saber olhar e ver, de modo a retirar das imagens os significados relevantes para os conteúdos programáticos a lecionar. Na segunda parte descrevem-se algumas experiências de ensino-aprendizagem desenvolvidas durante a Prática de Ensino Supervisionada, tendo em atenção o “ensino pela imagem”, a sua aplicabilidade, os sucessos alcançados e a boa aceitação pelos alunos. Apresentam-se diversos recursos utilizados na sala de aula e os materiais elaborados para a implementação do tema do trabalho. Finaliza-se o relatório com uma reflexão sobre a prática letiva desenvolvida e sobre a utilização de imagens (fotografias, mapas, ilustrações, gravuras, objetos físicos, filmes, banda desenhada e esquemas) em contexto de sala de aula e a sua relevância no ensino da Geografia e da História.

A utilização das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação como ferramenta didática no ensino da História e da Geografia

Os desafios que a educação hoje enfrenta, a par do extraordinário desenvolvimento das tecnologias de informação e comunicação exigem uma reflexão sobre as metodologias de ensino que propiciem uma maior motivação e o desenvolvimento de aprendizagens. O presente relatório resulta de um estudo sobre a aplicação de recursos baseados nas tecnologias de educação e comunicação (TIC) ao serviço da educação, realizada no âmbito da Prática de Ensino Supervisionada em Geografia e História. Esta prática decorreu em duas turmas da Escola Básica e Secundária Passos Manuel (Lisboa), uma do 10.º ano do ensino regular e outra do 11.º ano do Curso Profissional Técnico de Turismo, e numa turma do 9.º ano de escolaridade da Escola Secundária Miguel Torga (Sintra). Este trabalho assenta numa análise e reflexão sobre a aplicação das tecnologias digitais como ferramenta didática, e pretende demonstrar as potencialidades que este tipo de recursos representa no processo de ensino-aprendizagem, assim como os seus principais constrangimentos.

O ensino de piano em grupo para uma nova literacia musical. Impactos de um projeto de investigação-ação numa escola pública

Tese de Doutoramento em Estudos da Criança (Especialidade em Educação Musical)

Formação continuada: seus impactos na prática docente: um olhar sobre o programa pró-letramento

RESUMO: A preocupação central desta pesquisa foi compreendermos qual o impacto da formação continuada Pró-Letramento na prática pedagógica do professor a partir das necessidades e desafios do cotidiano escolar. Buscamos conhecer o conceito que os sujeitos da pesquisa têm sobre formação continuada, abordando a mesma como elemento da prática docente, comparamos o cotidiano de sala de aula de professores que passaram pela formação Pró-Letramento com os que não tiveram acesso a essa formação. Com respeito à formação continuada a percebemos como um processo dinâmico, reflexivo, que combina uma variedade de possibilidades e modalidades de aprendizagens, em que o professor vai adequando a sua formação às exigências sociais, culturais, educacionais. A formação continuada se dá, por meio da reflexão sobre a própria prática profissional no processo de ação-reflexão-ação, adquirindo significado na medida em que desenvolve e promove os diversos saberes docentes. A pesquisa foi conduzida com 90 professores do Ensino Fundamental – Anos Iniciais -, com oito coordenadoras que acompanham pedagogicamente os professores sujeitos dessa pesquisa e a observação em sala de aula. Procedeu-se à aplicação de um questionário validado e adaptado aos professores e uma entrevista aos coordenadores. A análise dos dados quantitativos foi realizada por meio do programa SPSS; enquanto a análise dos dados qualitativos foi orientada pela análise de discurso. A pesquisa aponta para algumas conclusões no que se refere a importância da Formação Continuada Pró-Letramento, tendo em vista a mesma possibilitar mudanças na prática pedagógica e colaborara para formação de um professor reflexivo, ao mesmo tempo que abre espaço para novos questionamentos e novos estudos.ABSTRACT: The central concern of this research was to understand the impact of the continuing education pro-literacy teaching practice from the teacher‘s needs and challenges of every day school life. We tried to know the concept that the subjects have on continuing education, addressing it as part of teaching practice, we compared the daily classroom teachers who have gone through training with Pro-Literacy did not access to such training. With respect to continuing education perceive it as a dynamic, reflective, which combines a variety of possibilities and modalities oF learning, the teacher will tailoring the training requirements to social, cultural, educational. The continuing education takes place, through reflection on own practice in the process of action-reflection-action, acquiring significance in that it develops and promotes the various teacher‘s knowledge. The research was conducted with 90 elementary school teacher‘s – Early Years – with eight coordinators accompanying teacher‘s pedagogically subject of research and observation in the classroom. Proceeded to the application of a validated questionnaire and adapted to an interview with the teachers and coordinators. The quantitative data analysis was performed using SPSS, while the analysis of qualitative data was guided by discourse analysis. The research points to some conclusions regarding the importance of Continuing Education Pro- Literacy in order to enable the same changes in teaching practice and collaborated to form a reflective teacher at the same time it makes room for new questions and new studies.

Análise de necessidades de formação: uma prática reveladora de objetivos da formação docente

In recent years, in Brazil, researches in the area of education have been focused on the study of the necessities of formation, by the practice of necessity analysis, to subside the continued teacher formation programs. This research on the necessity of the formation of literacy teachers in the initial years of primary education originated in our discussions in academia, regarding the issues of retention and evasion related to basic literacy teaching in Brazilian public schools. We defined as a goal: to know the necessities of the formation of literacy teachers from Odila Leite Municipal Elementary School, Natal/RN, which focuses on the literacy teaching on that level of education and in Adult and Youth Education. The object is the necessities in these teachers formation. The thesis is that the literacy teacher reveals/constructs formation necessities when speaking of her practice, when exerting said practice or even when producing teaching materials which subside that practice; in other words, when making the theoretical/practical relation related to literacy teaching. The approach is qualitative, according to which the natural environment is the source for data collection; the focus of interest is the process of knowledge construction, and fundamental importance is given to the meanings constructed by the subjects. We comprehended that necessity is a socially constructed subjective phenomenon, and that necessity analysis allows the revelation of formation objectives. We used the case study as a methodological strategy which permits: studying a well-defined entity, [ ] as well as an academic institution; the global comprehension of the phenomenon of interest; discovering what is most essential and characteristic in the object. We counted with 17 teachers, 3 of which had their teaching practices observed. We observed the school routine, analyzed the main class documents and plans and interviewed the 17 teachers. We triangulated the data obtained by the routine observation, the observation of the three teachers practices and by the document analysis, next, we triangulated this data with the data from the analyzing the interviews with the 17 teachers. Such procedures reveal formation necessities in those teachers , such as: studying child cognitive development; reviewing the concepts of literacy teaching; reviewing fundaments of written language psychogenesis; reflecting on reading practices and literature; reflecting on the practice of daily planning; reflecting on the school s material conditions and the family/school relation. We concluded that researches of this nature contribute to the orientation of teacher formation programs

Alfabetização: dinâmica das práticas didáticas e as interações das crianças com a linguagem escrita

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)