Optional subjects

Courses:

Professional identity and teaching strategies. 6 ECTS credits. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Prof.: Carles Monereo.

Strategies for academic writing. 6 credits ECT. University Ramon Llull. Prof.: Montserrat Castelló.

Training of professionals of education. 3 ECTS credits. University Ramon Llull. Porf.: Eva Liesa.

Strategies of cooperative learning and peer tutoring. 6 ECTS credits. Autonomous University of Barcelona. Prof.: David Durán, Marta Flores and Ester Miquel.

Contents:

  • Professional identity and its relation to educational conceptions, teaching strategies and feelings.
  • Techniques and instruments for the analysis of professional identity.
  • Strategies for fostering change in professional identity.
  • Research on change in professional identity.
  • Teaching and learning based on cooperation: conceptual framework and explanatory models.
  • Modes of cooperative teaching and peer tutoring: case analysis.
  • Methods and strategies of cooperative teaching.
  • Research on teaching and learning based on cooperative activities.
  • Reflexive practice and teachers’ professionalization.
  • Educational institutions as learning organizations and scenarios of professional development.
  • Writing and strategic knowledge.
  • Regulation of academic writing.

Requirements: Students must have successfully completed, or must be studying, at least one  course out of Subject Matter 1 and one course out of Subject Matter 2 or 3..

Courses:

Teaching and learning of oral language in inclusive educational contexts. 3 ECTS credits. University of Barcelona. Porf. Marta Gràcia.

Strategies for reading  and writting: Learning, teaching and intervention. 3 ECTS credits. University of Barcelona. Prof.: Nuria Castells.

Contents:

  • The initial process of literacy.
  • Cognitive and psycho-linguistic processes in learning of written language.
  • Social, cultural and linguistic dimensions of the process of literacy.
  • Reading and writing as instruments for reflection and construction.
  • Reading and writing to learn in the different educational stages.
  • Research and intervention on learning of reading and writing as instruments for learning.
  • Psycho-pedagogic fundaments of bilingual and plurilingual education. Relations between L1/L2/L3.
  • Linguistic knowledge and school achievement.
  • Education in multicultural and plurilingual contexts.

Requirements: Students must have successfully completed, or must be studying, at least one course out of Subject Matter 1 and one course out of Subject Matter 2 or 3.a de la materia 1 y una asignatura de la materia 2 o de la materia 3.

Courses:

Communication and language intervention in children with developmental disorders: augmentative communication and intervention strategies. 3 ECTS credits. University of Barcelona. Prof.: Magdalena Rivero y Cristina Mumbardó

Work with families in the framework of early attention. 3 ECTS credits. Ramon Llull University. Prof.: Joana Maria Mas.

Contents:

  • Disorders in development and learning. The field of communication and language.
  • Procedures of educational intervention with people with problems in communication and language.
  • Augmentative and alternative communication.
  • Evaluation and diagnostic of children with disability or developmental disorders and their family context.
  • Intervention on the child and her natural environment (family and community)
  • Planning, organization, management and evaluation of services of early attention.
  • Learning difficulties in different educational stages.
  • Learning difficulties in writing language and maths.
  • Attention to diversity and learning difficulties: strategies of intervention.

Requirements: Students must have successfully completed, or must be studying, at least one course out of Subject Matter 1 and one course out of Subject Matter 2 or 3.

Courses:

Environments, instruments and practices of virtual learning. 6 ECTS credits. University of Barcelona. Prof.: Anna Engel and Antonio Membrive.

Contents:

  • ICT and the improvement of teaching and learning processes
  • Computer-supported collaborative learning
  • Mobile learning and seamless learning
  • ICT to support personalised learning
  • Requirements for Education 5.0
  • Analysis of digital tools and resources

Courses:

The use of external representations in school learning. 3 ECTS credits. University of Barcelona.

Intercultural education and educational attention to social diversity. 6 ECTS credits. Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Psychoeducational care in social and community contexts. 6 ECTS credits. University of Girona.

Psycho-educational attention in social and minority contexts. 3 ECTS credits. Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Interdisciplinary projects and intervention in diverse contexts.  3 ECTS credits. Autonomous University of Barcelona. 

Contents:

  • External representation and school learning: External systems of representation as epistemic tools. External systems of representation in learning of science and math. Processes of appropriation of the number system. Tables, diagrams and graphics.
  • Socialization, learning and culture in minority communities. Culture, development and diversity in goals, values and educational practices. Scripts of aging, education, family and community. Immigration and construction of minority cultures. Culture and multiplicity of voices.
  • Psycho-educational attention in social and minority contexts: Programs for general family learning. Programs for mothers and fathers learning. Programs for family learning and relations family-school. Territorial integral educational plans. Environmental educational plans.
  • Psycho-educational attention at the kindergarten: the concept of childhood. Psycho-educational intervention in the first childhood. Institutions, administrations and services for attention to childhood. Child-adult interaction within family and institutions.

Requirements: Students must have successfully completed, or must be studying, at least one course out of Subject Matter 1 and one course out of Subject Matter 2 or 3.