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Programme profile
The programme aims to provide a multidisciplinary training of future teachers in primary education. Its main objectives are to enable students to:
-understand the function, possibilities and limits of school education and the fundamental competences which affect the different contexts of primary education
- master the different subjects and didactics, as well as their multidisciplinary relationship.
-design and regulate areas of learning in the context of diversity with regard to respect for one another
- maintain a critical and autonomous relationship with capacity for initiative.
- design, develop and evaluate educational projects and teaching and learning processes.
- know and implement, in the classroom, information and communication technologies.
- act as a mediator in every activity which is undertaken and to stimulate the potential development of students as part of a team.
- analyze the context in which one’s activity is developed and to plan in accord with a changing society.
- exercise monitoring functions, orientation of students, and the evaluation of their learning.
- acquire knowledge and tools to help the foundation of the psycho-pedagogical thinking in the educational process
The programme will comprise a series of teaching and learning processes that will involve the students in a wide range of academic disciplines, based on six main themes: mathematics, language studies, experimental sciences, social sciences, musical and physical education
Programme content
Year 1: School Organisation;Spanish History and Culture;Theory of Education;Ethics and Social Responsibility of Education;Social History of Education; ICT in Education;Social Psychology of Education; Sociology of Education;Educational Research Methodology;Audiovisual Communication and Education
Year 2: Mathematics/Teaching ; Spanish Language and Literature/Teaching ;Social Science Teaching; Music Education;Physical Education ;English Language/Teaching;Focus on Diversity and Educational Inclusion: Implications on Teaching; Modern Language
Year 3: Didactics of Mathematics;Didactics of Spanish Language and Literature ;Didactics of Social Sciences;Didactics of Natural Sciences; Music Education; Physical Education; Experimental Sciences in Primary Education;Social Sciences in Primary Education;Internship;
Year 4: Didactics of Natural Sciences; Internship; Final Project
Note: six modules [four in the second year], are taught through Spanish
Entry Requirements
Three A Levels and Three GCSEs
Six passes at Leaving Certificate, of which two are H5
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03 February
08 July
!!!! you should begin application procedure at least six weeks before this deadline