Lista de Projetos

The goal of Plagroups is to design a new policy measure of ECEC in Portugal, and collect indisputable causal evidence of the effectiveness of this measure on the empowering of disadvantaged children, their families and caregivers, and the members of their communities to fully participate in society.

Project TEL@FTELab assumes that technology enhanced teacher education programs may represent a relevant added value to the quality of prospective teachers’ training and therefore of its teaching practices. The aim of the project is both to find answers to the question: How does technology in learning spaces offer opportunities to provide innovative ways of designing teacher education for the future, and to provide research-based resources for teacher education in the areas of Biology, Informatics, Mathematics and Physics. The project takes the idea that the future will blur the boundaries between living, learning and working and this will result in the creation of flexible multiuse spaces that can accommodate different activities and serve different learning purposes. This leads to the need for rethinking educational spaces and didactic approaches involving a wide range of stakeholders. The project articulates the piloting of real experiments in initial teacher education courses with an analysis and development of a 21st century teacher skills framework. The pilots that constitute the empirical field of the project will be carried within courses of the Master Program on Teaching of Institute of Education (IE) and developed in the context of specific courses of Initial Supervised Practice. Key research questions: i) what is distinctive about teacher education in technology enhanced learning spaces? ii) what key competences should be part of teachers’ repertoire for the future iii) how does technology enhanced teacher education can serve the preparation of teachers? The Project combines technology, creativity and teacher education design in order to create a challenging context for the development of ideas, guidelines and products that serve teachers’ preparation to become innovative practitioners. For that purpose, IE leads the project and includes a group of partners acting as key participants in two fundamental tasks: the design and setup of the Future Teache...