Organization and Management of Educational Settings

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

The curricular unit’s content will be developed through theoretical and practical lessons,where models and theoretical concepts will be presented. Also, analysis and discussion of texts/legislation as well as practical work will be adopted.
Students can opt for continuous assessment or assessment by exam.
Continuous assessment is based on the permanent involvement and quality of student participation in group activities in carrying out group work (50%) and an eportefólio (50%).
The assessment by exam consists of a written test that addresses with all the topics covered (100%).

Learning Results

– Recognize the importance of organizational variables of education in
teaching-learning processes and in the behavior and attitudes of
teachers;
– Get to know the main models of analysis and organizational management, concerning educational institutions;
– Get to know the Portuguese Education System, its guiding principles and organization;
– Adopt practices acording to the orientations expressed in the Foundation Law of the Education System and the Regime of Autonomy and Administration of Schools;
– Identify the different management units and pedagogical coordenation departments and their competencies.

Program

Module 1 – The educational institution as an organization.
Module 2 – Organizational communication and leadership processes
Module 3 – The regime of autonomy, administration and management of preschool and elementary school public institutions
Module 4 – Private and Cooperative Educational Institutions and Private Institutions of Social Solidarity: contexts of educational activity
Module 5 – The process of teachers and schools’s evaluation

Curricular Unit Teachers

Grading Methods

Exam
  • - Exam - 100.0%
Continuing evaluation
  • - Eportefólio - 50.0%
  • - Individual and/or Group Work - 50.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

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Flores, M., & Ferreira, F. (2009). The Induction and mentoring of new teachers in Portugal: Contractions, needs and opportunities. Research in Comparative an International Education, 4 (1),63-73.
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Machado, J. (2013). A rede escolar e a administração das escolas: Novos e velhos desafios. In J. Machado & J. M. Alves (orgs.), Melhorar a escola – sucesso escolar, disciplina, motivação, direção de escolas e políticas educativas (pp. 141-152). FEPUCP.
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UNESCO (2016). Repensar a Educação – Rumo a um bem comum mundial? UNESCO