TEACHER ROOM: Project Based Learning # 4

In this publication we will see a bit about the Methodological Strategies and the Evaluationin the Curriculum Project. Establishing the method of work and evaluation, is to trace the path by which the goal is to be achieved. Therein lies its importance: no matter how desirable and perfect the purpose is, if there is no way to travel and that, in addition, allows us to reach the goal, we will never reach it.

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Establishing a work method means tracing the path by which the objective will be achieved.

Methodological strategies

The establishment of a methodology and adequate resources in relation to the objectives to be achieved will facilitate or not achieve them.

In addition, given that the objectives are formulated in terms of capacities, their achievement will be possible through the practice of certain methodological principles and not others, since solidarity, respect for others, etc., are not achieved through the study of a lesson or learning to remember the concepts, but daily practicing the skills and habits that are required of the students.

The methodology becomes, therefore, a fundamental part of the curriculum, especially in everything related to the achievement of objectives that involve the mastery of procedures and attitudes.

It is basic, therefore, to agree on methodological principles and the use of common didactic resources for all areas, although then, in each of them, they are specifically specified according to their epistemological and procedural requirements. There are certain objectives that must be achieved through work in all curricular areas; otherwise, they will not be achieved.

The common and basic methodological decisions have a definitive impact on the coherent and harmonious education of the students: the teachers must assume these principles and adapt them, subsequently, to the demands of their area. On the other hand, it will be convenient that this methodology is made as concrete as possible, within the generality to which it refers.

It is necessary to achieve common methodological principles for all areas with the aim of achieving a harmonious education.

It is not enough to say that an active and participatory methodology will be followed, without further ado, because the particular interpretations of each teacher will lead to ignoring what is really done in each classroom.

You can specify a little more, referring to the grouping of students, the use of spaces, the type of activities that will be carried out: individual, group, research, understanding, production, globalization, co-evaluation, etc.

Teacher dresses up to teachTherefore, it is important for the use of didactic resources and their correct organization to optimize their effectiveness.

Methodological strategies in the PCE

-Common but concrete guidelines for all curricular areas or subjects, respecting the specific application required by each of them.

• Types of activities.
• Criteria for the grouping of students.
• Criteria for the selection and organization of resources.

EVALUATION
SourceAs the methodological strategies, the evaluation is another decisive curricular element so that, in fact, some change takes place in the practice of the classroom and in the principles of the educational system in general, given that the selected evolutionary model conditions all the previous processes and more in teaching and learning.

The current curricular approach, based on constructive psychology, implies placing special emphasis on the activity carried out by the student and in the process that follows to achieve the development of certain abilities. This brings with it the need to carry out a model of continuous and formative evaluation, instead of final; and summative, as has been done.

Although the summative evaluation must ensure that the evaluated product responds to the characteristics of the system, the formative evaluation must guarantee that the models of that system are adequate to the characteristics of those involved in the evaluated process.

The regulatory function of each evaluation is shown here in the opposite direction: in the first case, it is the person who must adjust to the system and, secondly, it is the system in which the person must adapt. These basic aspects of the evaluation, specified in techniques and appropriate instruments for its application, must be decided and reflected in the Curriculum Project, since they must be respected by the entire group of teachers and known by the students and their parents. This will affect, in this way, how to evaluate the learning in each area or subject in particular.

SourceOn the other hand, to guarantee the homogeneity and objectivity of the evaluators in the center, it is convenient to mark and differentiate the evaluation criteria by areas that affect what is taught and learned from the course criteria, whose reference will be the general objectives of the scenario properly sequenced. The latter are those that will be remembered and collected in the PEC.

It is important to emphasize the importance of including the evaluation of teaching processes and teaching practice, and not only of learning. Its foundation lies in the fact that the greater or lesser performance of the students and, consequently, of the educational system, depends not only on what they do, but will be conditioned by the teacher's performance, the general organization of the center and the teaching processes and learning (methodology, evaluation, use of resources, coherence among the teaching staff, participation of the school, etc.)

SourceFinally, it is necessary to evaluate the application of the Curricular Project itself, which will allow it to progressively improve and adapt to the needs of the center and the students it serves.

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THE EVALUATION IN THE PEC

- Learning Evaluation

• Common mode for all areas: definition, determination of techniques, instruments, agents, report, communications.

- Teacher evaluation

• Processing and criteria to evaluate teaching processes and teaching practice.

- Evaluation of the Curricular Project.

- Internal evaluation of the center.

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TEACHER ROOM: Project based Learning # 1 , 2 , 3

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