The Master in English Teaching in the 1st Cycle of Basic Education is a 3-semester professional postgraduate training course, enabling students who complete it to exercise the teaching profession in the recruitment group 120 - English, in public or private schools.
The course seeks to promote the construction of teaching professionality in contexts of the 1st Cycle of Basic Education, through the mobilization of a critical (hyper)pedagogy, in which the student, future teacher of English in the 1st Cycle of Basic Education, learns to: analyze and reflect on national and transnational policies and documents which guide educational practice; build and mobilize theoretical and practical knowledge about the teaching and learning process; create didactic-pedagogical paths which are based on a democratic perspective, within the scope of sustainable and global development of education and the promotion of linguistic and intercultural diversity.
Consult reports https://www.a3es.pt/pt/resultados-acreditacao/ensino-de-ingles-no-1%C2%BA-ciclo-do-ensino-basico-11
| 1º Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Curricular unit | Period | ECTS |
| Citizenship and Intercultural Communication | 1st Semester | 5.0 |
| Didactics of Languages | 1st Semester | 8.0 |
| English - C2 | 1st Semester | 5.0 |
| Additional Support Needs in Inclusive Education | 1st Semester | 3.0 |
| Educational Psychology | 1st Semester | 3.0 |
| Sociology of Education | 1st Semester | 3.0 |
| Theory of Education | 1st Semester | 3.0 |
| Cultures and Children's Literature in English | 2st Semester | 6.0 |
| English Didactics in the 1st Cycle of Basic Education | 2st Semester | 6.0 |
| Research in Professional Practice | 2st Semester | 5.0 |
| Language, Cognition and Linguistic Interfaces | 2st Semester | 5.0 |
| Educational Policy and School Management | 2st Semester | 3.0 |
| Didactic Resources for Teaching English in the 1st Cycle of Basic Education | 2st Semester | 5.0 |
| 2º Year | ||
| Curricular unit | Period | ECTS |
| Supervised Teaching Practice | 1st Semester | 27.0 |
| Monitoring Seminar for Teaching Practice | 1st Semester | 3.0 |
Candidates applying for the Master's Degree must satisfy all of the following conditions: - higher academic qualifications stated in a) to c), no 1, article 17 of the Decree-Law 74/2006 24th March, updated by the Decree-Law no.107/2008 25th June, Decree-Law 230/2009 14th September and Decree-Law 115/2013 7th August; - higher academic qualifications equivalent to 80 to 100 ECTS credits in English; - oral and written proficiency in Portuguese and control of the basic rules of argumentative logic and criticism. Candidates with 75% of the ECTS credits established as minimum requisits may also apply to this study programme but the registration in the curricular units within Specific Didactis and initiation to professional practice, including supervised teaching practice or others defined by the organic unit's body, is dependent on the acquisition of the missing ECTS credits.
