Courses for international exchange students

This course aims at (1) introducing applied linguistics concepts for foreign languages acquisition, (2) improving English as a foreign language pedagogy by using new teaching materials (as well as project work in Early Years and Primary) and (3) considering different methods and their implications on teaching. 

This course offers future teachers the chance to acquire theoretical and practical resources to develop their communicative competence at a physical and dramatic level. 

This basic training provides you with knowledge about the teaching-learning process and about the psychological variables concerned. The goal is for you to be able to plan, analyse and improve the teaching and learning process within your professional field. The main goals are understanding psychology in order to facilitate its use in educational practice; setting up a framework of reference, based on constructivist theories, leading to an analytical approach to educational practice in general and teaching-learning at school in particular; understanding individual differences in terms of the main psychological theories and the factors involved in adapting teaching to individual students; developing a positive attitude to the regulation and control of independent learning and promoting collaboration among peers for staff development.

This course aims to 1) engage you in the systematic study of lexis and grammar through continued exposure to authentic written and oral materials, 2) introduce you to academic writing, and 3) involve you in interactive and collaborative project work with partners from the University of Opolski in Poland.

This course is aimed at future teachers. The first goal is to help you improve your spoken English so that you can communicate more effectively. Secondly, the course aims to develop your pronunciation skills and help you overcome pronunciation problems when speaking English. The third objective of the course is to promote phonological awareness. The approach in this course is to promote reflection on the development of oral English of children at pre-school and primary school.

This is a course that introduces you to famous writers and their work in English literature. At the same time, the focus is on the use of literature in teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language).

On-going change in society, families and schools require a new educational approach that is more in tune with integrated proposals for child education. In recent years, many schools have tried to implement a model of open participatory centres that take into account families, the context and the community. This course provides theoretical foundations that underlie this educational perspective, as well as knowledge of projects and practical experiences that will give you an insight into the educational work of schools and connections with families and contexts. You will focus on resources to promote integration of students with difficulties and you will gain an understanding the educational process of teaching and learning for the 0-6 year age group.

Introduction to Physical Education gives another vision about how physical education can be taught in primary schools. New active methodologies will be taught as well as different ways to apply and assess them during physical education classes. The students will also acquire the skills, knowledge, and understanding of the structure, content, and different elements of a physical education class. It will allow widening knowledge in regards to physical education while developing a practical and contextual understanding of the subject. The majority of the classes from this subject are practical.

The purpose of this course is to give you an understanding of the characteristics of kindergarten and recognize early childhood as a basic stage of development. You will approach early childhood from a global perspective, integrating cognitive, socio-affective and psychomotor dimensions as part of the close relationship between family and school. You will understand the processes of learning and education in early years from 3 to 6 years old. Finally, you will make contact with various methodologies in early childhood education, through analysis, reflection and comparison. You will discover innovative teaching methods in this cycle, and acquire cooperative and communicative skills.

Teaching English in a school context: methodologies, strategies and resources.

This course offers an introduction to the range of different styles of work being employed in Europe in the field of social education. The overall aim is to provide you with tools to be able to contextualise social educational work in Catalunya and elsewhere, and to enable you to critically evaluate how it is undertaken.

We live in societies that are plural and diverse, that are marked by clear "North-South" differences, by differing notions of democracy and by conflicts. It is important to understand current world problems and tensions in order to reflect on the aims of education in our society and on education policies. In this course, you will collect, organize and interpret information about social and educational events, and study the relations between school and society.

This course is an introduction to the scope of teaching and learning art, and to the mulitple options that art can provide as new ways of understanding ourselves and the world.

This course introduces you to fundamental concepts and ideas of teaching EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in the stages of early childhood and primary education. The course provides extensive information to future teachers about the implementation of English programmes at school, and about the importance of English within the European educational context.

Teaching Experimental Sciences II aims to prepare student teachers for the challenges of teaching science in kindergarten and primary school in English. The course will focus on designing lesson plans for CLIL contexts. The approach will be therefore based on reflective practice on Science teaching in a L2 context and strategies such as co-teaching and cooperative learning will be fostered throughout the academic semester.

This course will deal with three areas of study in primary education: 1) literary texts to encourage the habit of reading. 2) children's and juvenile literature: genres, translations, works, periods and history and 3) the school library, its management and organisation with a view to fostering literary education.

This course aims to prepare you for the acquisition of basic knowledge for the teaching of early number concepts, addition, subtraction and base ten concepts in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and primary school. 

This course will reveal the meaning and importance of physical education. The course is linked to curricular elements for the area of physical education and enhances organisational strategies in this area.