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Practicum IV

Code: 102062
Credits: 12
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Primary Education OB 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Begoña Oliveras Prat
Email :
begona.oliveras@uab.cat

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

It is recommended that students have previously completed Practicum I, II and III. Also, it is recommended the previous reading of all the documents and regulatory information provided on the Faculty’s website.

In order to take this course it is mandatory to hold the negative certificate from the Sex Offender Registry. The student is the unique responsible to get and present it to the centre before the internship starts.

In order to take this course it is imperative to respect the terms of application established by the Faculty.

Objectives

Practicum IV has a general nature and it is linked to a specific curriculum area. One of its most important objectives is that the future teacher learns to design a didactic proposal (unit plan, interdisciplinary project, workshops, APS, corners, environments, etc.) and can be put into practice. The didactic intervention has to have a minimum of 6 sessions. The type of proposal is open in each case to the decision taken by the tutors of the school and the Faculty.

The objectives of Practicum IV are:

- To observe and analyze the educational reality of the center of practices to get involved as a member of the educational community.

- To analyze the educational project of the internship center to be able to design a didactic intervention in a well-founded way.

- To schedule, implement and evaluate a didactic proposal linked to one or several knowledge areas of the curriculum of primary education.

- To reflect on the teaching practice to be conscious and take decisions based on their own professional development

Learning outcomes

  1. Apply the data obtained in from socio-educational diagnosis to the education planning process.
  2. Understand how the different organizational structures of the school function.
  3. Diagnose the socio-educational reality in schools by identifying the social factors that condition them.
  4. Define the elements that constitute a school as complex organization.
  5. Identifying the teacher's framework of autonomy and role in today's society.
  6. Share specific knowledge with other professionals to ensure a better product or solution.
  7. Provide integrated responses to complex educational phenomena.
  8. Reflecting on the potentials of interdisciplinarity within the framework of the present curriculum proposal.
  9. Coordinate with other teachers in approaches to education and the realization of teaching and learning tasks.
  10. Identifying barriers to learning and mobilising resources to address diversity.
  11. Planning language and mathematics activities, specifying their didactic purpose.
  12. Justifying the appropriateness of the language and mathematics activities designed in the class group in which they will be taught.
  13. Establish evaluation criteria for the planned activities arising from the process of teaching and learning.
  14. Being aware of the importance of interactions between peers in the development of empathy, social relations and status within the group.
  15. Collaborate with school professionals in order to extract relevant information from innovative projects analysed.
  16. Share with professionals at the school any proposed innovation generated by informing the teaching staff of proposals.
  17. Show interest in understanding and comprehending the functions and tasks performed by social institutions.
  18. Express critical and objective arguments with respect to the functions and tasks performed by social institutions.
  19. Demonstrate respect for individual and social awareness and responsibility regarding the world around us.
  20. Recognising the level of personal and social commitment towards educational initiatives.
  21. Share with colleagues doing traineeships in the same school the development of classroom experiences and discuss their suitability for the class group.
  22. Permanently learn and think critically as teachers, making use of shared research-action processes to improve and innovate in teaching.
  23. Conceive teaching practice to be an element of professional improvement.
  24. Conceive innovation as part of professional development and continuing education.
  25. Selecting the key information for making proposals for improvements in primary education centres.
  26. Becoming involved in the dynamics of the centre and of the classroom when making suggestions for innovation related to the context of the centre and of the classroom.
  27. Evaluate the evolution of one's strengths, potentialities and weaknesses throughout the time spent at the school, to understand how these can influence teaching and consider the practical elements that have influenced this evolution.
  28. Using ICTs and CLTs in the development and production of practical work and in the design of didactic proposals.
  29. Identifying experiences involving collaboration between sectors of the educational community and the social environment.
  30. Identifying ways of managing the time, space and social organisation in the classroom.
  31. Critically observing the reality of the school, paying special attention to innovation projects, and reflecting this practical know-how in the proposed improvements.
  32. Identifying strategies that promote interaction and communication in the classroom, in order to create a good climate for learning and coexistence.
  33. Using strategies that encourage interaction and communication in the classroom in language, literature and mathematics learning situations.
  34. Demonstrate knowledge of the theoretical framework to analyse the reality of the classroom and school.
  35. Understand situations and phenomena in the classroom and school and offer grounded responses to what happens.
  36. Make use of theoretical concepts and principles to interpret educational events, situations and processes in the classroom or school.
  37. Inform oneself by reading articles, bibliographic sources and proposals and teaching resources to interpret and respond to pupil's needs for specific support.
  38. Participating in the preparation, development and regulation of the everyday classroom tasks and making suggestions for their improvement.
  39. Understand the need to link ideas and principles with concrete actions, through reflective practice and identification of problem-solving strategies.
  40. Collaborate with the school's professionals by making innovative proposals based on observation of innovative practice in the school and classroom.
  41. Develop a collaborative project in a team, as a first step towards networking.
  42. Knowing how to analyse and manage social conflicts in the classroom by making use of group dynamics and teaching social skills in order to improve the climate in the classroom.
  43. Adapt teaching and learning programs and activities to pupil diversity.
  44. Critically analyse personal work and use resources for professional development.
  45. Design and regulate learning spaces in contexts of diversity that attend to gender equality, equity and respect for human rights as involved in the values of public education.
  46. Selectively distinguish audiovisual information that contributes to learning, public training and cultural richness.
  47. Understand models of quality improvement with application to schools.
  48. Evaluate teaching activity in the classroom, integrating self-evaluation processes.
  49. Reflecting on the role of the school in a changing society.
  50. Considering processes of causality between educational factors and social factors.
  51. Planning and carrying out activities that promote active citizenship in students.
  52. Know about information and communication technologies and apply them in the classroom.
  53. Using and evaluating all the languages (oral, written, artistic, body, etc.) in the classroom (between teacher and students and among students themselves) as a tool for negotiating meanings and the joint construction of knowledge.
  54. Regulating the processes of interaction and communication in groups of students aged 6-12.
  55. Control and monitoring of the educational process and in particular the teaching and learning by mastering the techniques and strategies needed.
  56. Present products (teaching units, class analyses, etc.) produced in teams with people from different degree courses and levels of expertise.
  57. Maintain an attitude of respect for the environment (natural, social, cultural) to promote sustainable values, behaviour and practices that respect gender equality, equity and respect for human rights.
  58. Identify situations in which a change or improvement is needed.
  59. Propose projects and actions that are in accordance with the principles of ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and obligations, diversity and democratic values.
  60. Analyse the indicators of sustainability of academic and professional activities in the areas of knowledge, integrating social, economic and environmental dimensions.
  61. Analyse a situation and identify its points for improvement.
  62. Analyse the sex- or gender-based inequalities and the gender biases present in one's own area of knowledge.

Contents

SECTION A. KNOWLEDGE OF THE SCHOOL CONTEXT

1. The organization of the center.

2. The educational projects of the center.

3. Relations with the environment.

SECTION B. KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASSROOM

1. Learning processes in relation to teaching strategies.

2. Attention to diversity and inclusion processes.

3. The processes of communication and interaction in the classroom.

4. Organization processes in the classroom.

5. Coexistence and conflict resolution strategies.

SECTION C. DIDACTIC PROPOSAL / EDUCATIONAL INTERVENTION IN THE CLASSROOM

1. Programming and experimenting with a proposal / intervention related to the curricular areas of primary education.

2. Evaluation of the proposal / intervention.

3. Reflection and proposals for improvement of the proposal / intervention.

4. To use an oral and written language appropiate to the academic context (catalan or English, depending on the group).

This internship is supervised by teachers from the following Departments: Department of Language and Literature Education, and of Social Sciences Education, Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Department of Teaching of Musical, Artistic and Corporal Expression, Department of Basic, Evolutive and Educational Psychology, and Department of Applied Pedagogy.

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Self-work 75 3 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15, 17, 21, 24, 25, 29, 31, 32, 39, 41, 42, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 59, 60, 62
Individual or collective conferences 22 0.88 6, 9, 24, 27, 35, 36, 39, 41, 54
Internship 203 8.12 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 27, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 44, 45, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 62

The training activities are structured as follows:

Individual or group conferences

  • Presentation, exchange, discussion and assessment of the observations carried out in the classroom, from a theoretical and practical perspective.
  • Design and analysis of a proposal / intervention.

Internship

  • Observation and analysis of everyday situations in the center of practice and in the classroom..
  • Participation and collaboration in school and classroom activities.
  • Planning, implementation and assessment of a proposal / intervention

Autonomous work

  • Search for information and documentation aimed at the preparation and presentation of documents and work derived from the practicum.
  • Preparation of a proposal / intervention.
  • Completion of a practicum learning folder.

As a common axis of these training activities, we emphasize the need for reflection on the learning process itself and the evaluation of the professional improvement experienced.

Calendar. See the following document:

https://www.uab.cat/web/practicum/calendari-de-practiques-1345737698690.html?cid=1345737698690&d=Touch&pagename=i-FCE%2FPage%2FTemplatePageInteriorWEB_FacultatsUAB2015_RWD

Seminar tutorials take place on Monday afternoons, between 16:00 and 17:30, for afternoon students, and on Wednesdays from 11:30 to 13:00 for morning students.The calendar of the internship, the seminars and some aspects of the memory of this practicum can vary for those students who do it linked to a National or International stay through the UAB exchange programme Bressola, Richmond, Munich ...), an ERASMUS or SICUE programme. In order to adapt the calendar or to do the internship in the workplace, it is necessary to comply with the criteria established by the regulations and request it through the procedures of the Faculty reported on the website.

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.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Internship Report 30% 0 0 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 51, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 61, 62
Individual or Collective conferences 30% 0 0 6, 14, 24, 25, 28, 32, 33, 38, 46, 50, 51, 52, 54, 57, 60, 62
Portfolio 40% 0 0 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 34, 35, 36, 40, 43, 45, 49, 52, 53, 55, 57

In the same vein as Practical II, taken in 3rd year, requirements for being assessed for Practical IV are 100% attendance at the practice center hours; and compliance with a minimum of 80% attendance at the Faculty's tutorial seminars. Each of the assessment activities (learning folder, stay at the center and tutorials) must be reached (with a minimum grade of 5) to pass Practicum IV. If a block of activities is failed and the average with the rest of the blocks is higher than 5, by default the final qualification of the internship will be 4.

To pass this subject, the student must demonstrate good general communication skills, both orally and in writing, and a good command of the language or languages listed in the teaching guide. In all activities (in group and individually) students must be able to express themselves fluently and correctly. This affects the oral group activities developed in the seminars, in which they may have to present experiences, argue one's own point of view in the analysis of certain classroom situations, formulate questions to classmates, etc. It also affects individual writing activities, which must necessarily respect the formal aspects of presentation. Likewise, it is expected that in all cases a high degree of understanding of academic texts is shown.

Before submitting any evidence of learning, it is necessary to check that the sources, notes, textual citations and bibliographical references have been written correctly following the APA regulations and in accordance with the documentation that is summarized in the following UAB source: https://ddd.uab.cat/record/113512

Students must show an attitude compatible with the profession, and to be evaluated, they must have met the following minimum requirements:

  • Have complied with the calendar requirements and assumed the assigned responsibilities.
  • Have shown respect for all members of the educational community.
  • Have adhered to the school regulations (schedule, mobile phone use, dress code, etc.).
  • Have used the vehicular language following the center's guidelines.
  • They demonstrated during their intervention a reasonable command of the content they teach and the basic skills required to teach it.

If this is not the case, at any time during the stay, both the internship center and the university can decide that the student must stop the stay at the center. In these cases, there will be contact between the faculty and the center and a reasoned report on the interruption of internships will be drawn up showing that the student cannot continue doing the internships. If this happens, this person will automatically fail the practicum (the remaining numerical grade will be a3). Likewise, total or partial plagiarism of one of the assessment activities and/or copying in an assessment test is a direct reason to fail the subject (the remaining numerical grade will be a 3).

In this sense, the student must comply with the regulatory framework for practices https://www.uab.cat/web/practicum/normativa-1345881466711.html. Following the academic regulations, this subject does not include the possibility of a single assessment. No synthesis exam is offered for this course. Likewise, the PIV must be done in a different center from the PII, except in special cases that will be duly assessed by the coordination of practices. You cannot do the internship at a center where there are first-order relatives or where you work without authorization from the university coordination.

This course implements a set of measures to addressthe need to develop digital teaching competence. Digital Teaching Competence (DTC) is the ability of teachers to simultaneously mobilize knowledge, skills, and attitudes through the use of digital technologies in order to perform their professional duties and support students’ learning and the development of their own digital competence. The regulatory framework has been developed by the European Commission and outlines the digital competences teachers need to face the widespread presence of digital devices and the responsibility to help students become digitally competent. The Reference Framework for Digital Teaching Competence is an adaptation of DigCompEdu tailored to the formal education system in Spain. The competences in the framework are organized into six areas, representing different aspects of teachers’ professional activities.

The use of AI is permitted in this subject, provided that: a) it is limited to improving aspects of the final report's writing, and b) an annex is included indicating which parts were enhanced using this resource and what the original text written by the student was.

The Learning Portfolio must be submitted on 2 February 2027.

Bibliography

DECRET 119/2015, de 23 de juny, d'ordenació dels ensenyaments de l'educació primària. Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya. DOGC núm. 6900 - 26.6.2015

DECRET 150/2017, de 17 d'octubre, de l'atenció educativa a l'alumnat en el marc d'un sistema educatiu inclusiu. DOGC núm. 7477 - 19.10.2017

ORDRE ENS/164/2016, de 14 de juny, per la qual es determinen el procediment i els documents i requisits formals del procés d'avaluació en l'educació primària. DOGC Núm. 7148 - 23.6.2016

Each supervisor will add other specific references.

Software

El software que se empleará será básicamente programas de tratamiento de textos y de exposiciones, así como repositorios de documentos.

Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(PEXTtutor) Pràctiques externes i pràcticum (amb presència del tutor) 99 Catalan annual morning-mixed