MM-Elementary Education in the Contemporary Theory and Practice 2300-NZ2-MM/PW-WKPW
Specific issues
The issues of lectures concentrate on the following topics:
1. Early childhood pedagogy - development perspectives in the light of changes in elementary education.
2. Early education teacher - educational partnership: school, parents, local environment
3. Various models of elementary education based on the experience of selected European countries and the USA
4. Psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic foundations of the child's language development
5. International PIRLS research (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study), TIMSS (Trends in Mathematics and Science Study) - educational conclusions resulting from the analysis of the results obtained for early childhood education.
6. Research on school achievements of children completing the first stage of education - analysis of research results and their pedagogical implications.
7 Contemporary concepts of the learning process and their psychological determinants (constructivism, cognitivism, conectivism)
8. Selected problems in the field of initial reading and writing - an interactive model of literacy.
9. Concepts of mathematical education - relational vs. instrumental approach.
10.Alternative concepts of early childhood education and their modern applications.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
The student will be able to:
Knowledge
- characterize the main trends of discourses in early education
- describe and analyze models of being a teacher and concepts of professional role
- define the importance of critical thinking competences of early education teachers towards changes and educational reforms
- characterize selected models of elementary education in European countries
- list the most important features of contemporary concepts of the learning process
- analyze the concepts of learning to read and write in the context of constructivism and an interactive approach
- characterize the results of Polish and international research on the effectiveness of education at the first stage of education in the field of mathematics and exchange recommendations for educational practice
Skills
- give examples from transmission educational practice and constructivist approach to early childhood education
- to indicate and illustrate with examples the most important conclusions resulting from research for early childhood education in the field of language and mathematics education
- identify the most important
directions of changes in Polish early childhood education
- make a critical analysis of alternative concepts of early childhood education
Social competence
- discuss issues related to the issue of early education
- exchange views in group interaction
Assessment criteria
Written test summarizing the course: 16 topics divided into 4 groups of issues. The student chooses 2 issues from each group. He prepares a total of 8 topics.
Assessment criteria:
- compatibility of the text with the issues presented in thematic issues
- logical and structured organisation of speech
- problematic approach to issues, combining theoretical knowledge with practice
- linguistic correctness (stylistic and spelling)
The colloquium is descriptive and not test.
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