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Teaching Geography Methodology II

Objectives

a) Using several resources and strategies for teaching Geography.
b) recognize the usefulness of planning education.
c) Apply certain models of planning in specific courses.
d) Understand the meaning of individual and social assessment.
e) Exercising various assessment tools.
f) Develop tests in Geography.
g) To be aware of the social importance of the teaching role.

General characterization

Code

722160081

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Ana Cristina Rodrigues Camara Cortesao Casimiro

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None

Bibliography

Cachinho, Herculano e al (2001). Educação Geográfica 15, Lisboa: Associação Portuguesa de Geógrafos.
Jimenez, Antonio Moreno, Gaité, Maria de Jesus (1996). Enseñar Geografia De la Teoria a la prática, Sl: Editorial Sinteses.
LEITE, Carlinda e FERNANDES, Preciosa (2002). Avaliação das Aprendizagens dos Alunos - Novos contextos, novas práticas. Colecção Guias Práticos. Porto: Edições ASA.
Marrón Gaite, M. J. et al (2001). La formatión geografica de los ciudadanos en el cambio del milenio, Madrid: Univ. Complutense de Madrid.
SERPA, Margarida da Silva Damião (2010). Compreender a avaliação. Fundamentos para práticas educativas. Lisboa: Edições Colibri.
TRINDADE, Rui (2002). Experiências educativas e situações de aprendizagem – novas práticas pedagógicas. Porto: Edições ASA.
Xouto González, Xosé Manuel (1996). Didáctica de la Geografia. Problemas sociales y conocimiento del médio, Sl:Ediciones del Serbal.

Teaching method

Lectures (50%) and tutorials (50%). Tutorials consist of:
Development of lesson activities.
Individual and/or group problem solving.
Development of teaching materials
Teaching units planning and assessment

Evaluation method

Individual work. Presentation of a methodology to be used in a teaching context and the relevant materials for that/those lesson(s)(40%), Two assessment tools(40%), Classroom work (20%)

Subject matter

(Following the contents of Teaching Geography Methodology I)
Part IV: Geographic education.
4.1. Geographic education: the discourse practices of the curriculum;
4.2. The challenges of teaching in geography.
4.3. Planning versus Evaluation.
Part V: Evaluation in the teaching - learning of Geography.
5.1. The problem of evaluation;
5.2. Types of evaluation;
5.3. Assessment in Geography: practices and tools;
5.4. Types of questions;
5.5. Recording, processing and interpretation of results.