As showed in the following sections, this course is designed considering that the students are at the center of the learning process.

This course includes three types of learning activities: guided, supervised, and self-study activities.

• Guided activities are conducted by the teaching staff involving the active participation of the class group in the learning process. These activities can be large group classes, seminars or small group sessions. Classes with the main group are based on presentations of the topics from the syllabus. The seminars and practical sessions are working spaces to deepen, analyze, contrast, debate, experience, reflect and evaluate the contents of the course.

• Supervised activities are learning activities in which students, individually and/or in groups, work towards achieving learning. These activities will be structured in a concrete way, presented at the beginning of the course, and allow the deepening and application of the course content.

• Self-study activities are carried out independently by the student in order to develop skills and achieve the objectives of the course.

Inclusive Education

Taking into account the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and the principles of equity and inclusion promoted by the European Union (Declaration of Paris, 2015), the commitment made by the Faculty of Education Sciences and UAB regarding educational inclusion, and following the Decree 150/2017 on the inclusive education system in Catalonia, the professors of this course recognizes the value of diversity and are committed to considering the uniqueness of the learning needs of the students. Therefore, an inclusive perspective will be considered transversally incorporated in the teaching practices, activities and productions of the students, and contents of this course.

Digital TeachingCompetence.

This course includes activities for the development of Digital Teaching Competence.

Gender Perspective

This subject considers the Gender Perspective in teaching, as well as the need to include mechanisms that allow us to overcome inequalities and build fairer societies from Early Childhood Education. In this regard, this subject considers the assumption of gender equity values as a transversal axis to the proposed content, activities, and teaching practice.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

The assessment in this course is both continuous and final.

The final assessment consists of two individual written tests and two group assignments that cover all the content from the different sections and are distributed throughout the course.

Rubrics, checklists, assessment guidelines, and other tools will be used in the assessment process to ensure the continuous and formative monitoring of the practical activities that will be developed throughout the course.

The assessment and reassessment dates are (2026-2027 academic year):

Group 61: 03/12 and 06/05. The reassessment date is May 27, 2027.

Group 62: 01/12 and 04/05. The reassessment date is May 25, 2027.

Attendance, participation, and attitudes

Attendance and participation during the development of the subject are essential to develop the established competencies. Students must attend at least 80% of the seminar sessions and 100% of the evaluation sessions.

The certificates sometimes presented in case of absence serve only to explain the absence and in no case exempt from attendance. Only in cases related to medical and judicial issues, and duly documented, the teaching staff responsible for the subject may, if possible, arbitrate complementary activities that compensate for the required face-to-face attendance.

It is necessary to show an attitude compatible with the educational profession as a requirement to pass the subject. Some competencies are active listening, respect, participation, cooperation, empathy, kindness, punctuality, not judging, arguing, and proper use of electronic devices (mobile, computer, etc).

Also, the student must demonstrate that he/she is responsible and rigorous in autonomous work, actively participate in the classes, and show critical thinking and behaviours that favour a friendly and positive, democratic environment where differences are respected. The students’ participation, involvement, and attitude during the development of the activities and classroom sessions will be considered for evaluation. Teachers may suspend or lower the grades if they consider that it does not meet academic minimums in the mentioned aspects.

The importance of demonstrating an ethical commitment to the deontological principles of the teaching profession is recalled. Specifically, the Code of Ethics of the teaching profession, which was approved by the Board of the Official College of Doctors and Graduates in Philosophy and Letters and Sciences of Catalonia on June 29, 2021.

Qualifications and Reassessment

To pass the subject, it is necessary to have an average equal to or greater than 5 (five). To be able to do the average with the activities, it is necessary to get a minimum of 5 (five) in each of the compulsory evaluation activities.

When it is considered that the student has not been able to provide sufficient evidence of assessment, the weight of which is equivalent to a minimum of two-thirds of the total grade of the subject, this subject must be graded as Not Assessable.

Professors will return the assessment of the evidence within a maximum of 20 working days of the academic calendar. The student who wants to review the note must do so within 15 days after its publication in the established office hours.

It should be noted that the student will have the opportunity to retake the subject by sitting and completing the failed written test(s). Group and cooperative work are not open to reassessment.

Students who repeat the subject must contact the instructor at the beginning of the course to specify the requirements to pass the subject. This subject allows the realization of a synthesis test for assessing the learning results. In this case, the final qualification of the subject will correspond to the grade of the synthesis test.

Activities, evidence, and use of AI

The activities and evidence that are presented in the subject must be original and of one's own creation or of the group (when applicable).

In this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is allowed as an integral part of the development of the work, provided that the result reflects a significant contribution of the student in the analysis and personal reflection. The student will have to clearly identify which parts have been generated with this technology, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the result of the activity. The non-transparency of the use of AI will be considered a lack of academic honesty and may lead to a penalty in the grade of the activity, or major sanctions in cases of seriousness; the work will not be considered original, and the subject will be suspended in its entirety without the option of re-evaluation. It is considered that it has not been their production when the works are elaborated in their entirety with non-original and exclusive elements of the student and/or when the student does not identify the use that has been made of AI and/or their personal contribution in the analysis and reflection.

All evaluable activities will be subject to formal criteria, including spelling, writing, and presentation. Before submitting evidence of learning, it is necessary to check that the citations in the text and bibliographic references have been correctly written following the APA 7^th Ed. regulations.

Linguistic Competence

To pass this subject, students must demonstrate good general communicative competence, both orally and in writing, and a good command of the vehicular language or languages that appear in the teaching guide and in the proposed activities. In all the activities (individual and group), therefore, linguistic correctness, writing, and formal aspects of presentation will be considered. Students must be able to express themselves fluently and correctly and must show a high degree of understanding of academic texts. An activity can be returned (not evaluated) or suspended if the teacher considers that it does not meet these requirements.

In the case of the Catalan language, in the 1st and 2nd year students are required to have a linguistic competence equivalent to Level 1 for Early Childhood and Primary Education Teachers; and from the 3rd year of the Degree, the student must have shown competence equivalent to Level 2 for Early Childhood and Primary Education Teachers (more information about these levels at http://www.uab.cat/web/els-estudis/a-1369).

Copy and plagiarism

Copying or plagiarism in any kind of evaluation activity constitutes a crime and will be penalized with a 0 (zero) as a mark for the subject, losing the possibility of recovering it, whether it is individual or group work (in this case, all members of the group will have a 0). If, during the completion of individual work in class, the teacher considers that a student is trying to copy or discover some type of document or device not authorized by the teacher, the same will be graded with a 0, without the option of reassessment, and therefore, the subject will be suspended. A work, activity, or exam will be considered to be "copied" when it reproduces all or a significant part of the work of another colleague. It will be considered that a work or activity is "plagiarized" when a part of an author's text is presented as its own without citing the sources, regardless of whether the sources are in paper or digital format. More about UAB’s antiplagiarism rules at: http://wuster.uab.es/web_argumenta_obert/unit_20/sot_2_01.html

Single Assessment System

This course does not provide for a Single Assessment System.