2/11 - SYLLABUS AND UNITS OF WORK

Hi! In today's lesson we were working on the syllabus and the units of work. I consider that these concepts are very important since as technicians we need to plan our activity to contextualize it in our environment and to get away from the institutionalism and activism.

A concept that I did not know is syllabus, which means is a set of decisions made by the teachers in a school, with respect to a subject or area and the level in the framework of the teaching and learning process. On the other hand, the elements of the curriculum that determine the process of teaching and learning are: objectives, key competences, the basic knowledge, teaching methodology and the assessment criteria.

Another very important concept since we are going to work with it are the didactic units. This is a kind of a lesson plan and their main function is to structure the different topics that will be covered in a specific period to achieve the students' learning goal. 

To carry out a lesson planning it is necessary to take into account the logical structure for a lesson: warm-up, presentation, practice, flow-up and finally, the evaluation.

Finally, the last concept we work on and the newest one for us since it has been included in the lomloe are learning situations. These are an effective tool to integrate all curricular elements (competences, criteria, and basic knowledge) of the different areas through significant tasks and activities that are relevant to solving problems creatively and cooperatively, reinforcing self-esteem, autonomy, reflection, and responsibility .

To sum up, I think that this theoretical session was very important to know well all the concepts with which we are going to have to work daily, so it is essential to know well what they are about.