Session 7A, PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION - 2 - Democratic context in a preschool classroom
STEPUP-DC Project
Course DescriptionBasic Topics
- Indicative incidents in the early childhood class
- The role of the kindergarten teacher
- Indicative didactic approaches
- Curriculum and educational material
Duration
The duration of the session is 9 hours (3 reading + 3 learning + 3 working/practicing)
Objectives
- Develop students’ confidence in leading initiatives and developing educational programmes for EDC/HRE/IE in Preschool Education.
- Familiarise students with key tools on EDC/HRE including the Council of Europe’s Framework for development of democratic culture in Preschool Education.
Learning outcomes
The participants after completing the session they have learnt:
- The role of the kindergarten teacher in teaching democratic values
- Basic teaching strategies for teaching democratic values
- Important points for organizing the curriculum and the educational materials
Outcomes and CDC
- Values
- Valuing democracy, justice, fairness, equality and the rule of law
- 301: Argues that schools should teach students about democracy and how to act as a democratic citizen (basic)
- Attitudes
- Respect
- 501: Gives space to others to express themselves (basic)
- Tolerance of ambiguity
- 901: Engages well with other people who have a variety of different points of view (basic)
- Skills
- Empathy
- 1301: Can recognise when a companion needs his/her help (basic)
- 1302: Expresses sympathy for the bad things that he/she has seen happen to other people (basic)
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- Indicative incidents in the early childhood class
- The role of the kindergarten teacher
- Indicative didactic approaches
- Curriculum and educational material
The duration of the session is 9 hours (3 reading + 3 learning + 3 working/practicing)
- Develop students’ confidence in leading initiatives and developing educational programmes for EDC/HRE/IE in Preschool Education.
- Familiarise students with key tools on EDC/HRE including the Council of Europe’s Framework for development of democratic culture in Preschool Education.
The participants after completing the session they have learnt:
- The role of the kindergarten teacher in teaching democratic values
- Basic teaching strategies for teaching democratic values
- Important points for organizing the curriculum and the educational materials
- Values
- Valuing democracy, justice, fairness, equality and the rule of law
- 301: Argues that schools should teach students about democracy and how to act as a democratic citizen (basic)
- Valuing democracy, justice, fairness, equality and the rule of law
- Attitudes
- Respect
- 501: Gives space to others to express themselves (basic)
- Tolerance of ambiguity
- 901: Engages well with other people who have a variety of different points of view (basic)
- Respect
- Skills
- Empathy
- 1301: Can recognise when a companion needs his/her help (basic)
- 1302: Expresses sympathy for the bad things that he/she has seen happen to other people (basic)
- Empathy
A series of resources that the student teacher must study in this session and a series of additional resources for further study.
A full paper and additional e-lessons on the topics of the session and additional interactive presentation of the materials, for the student teachers to study all the materials in a row.
A series of authentic, up to date and relevant activities with their accompanying materials, which deliver the intended learning outcomes of the session and are carried out face to face or E-learning with groups of student teachers.
Several types of questions to evaluate how much the student teachers have learned throughout the session (reading material, learning material and workshop).
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