How to plan a didactic unit (19/01)

Steps to plan a didactic unit: 

1. Legislative framework.
2. LOMCE (We have to use inclusive and heterogeneus groups in class)
3. Primary education curriculum.
4. Relation among competences contents.
5. Primary education curriculum in Ceuta. 

LOMCE-LOE

Key competences

The nomenclature and definition of key competences in the lomce is based on a European commission document on 21st century competences.

• Linguistic competence.
• Mathematical competence and basic competences in science and technology.
• Digital competence.
• Learning to learn.
• Social and civic competences
• Initiative and entrepreneurship.
• Cultural awareness and expression.

Curriculum

• The LOMCE defines the curriculum as: the regulation of the elements that manage the teaching And learning

Curriculum of primary education

The new curriculum will be integrated by:

• The objectives; they are the reference models related to the outcomes the students must achieve at the end of the educational process.
• The competences or capacities to activate and apply the contents in an integrated way, with the aim of achieving the appropriate fulfilment of activities and the effective solving of complex problems.

Contents:

The contents, or sets of knowledge, abilities, skills and attitudes that contribute to

• The achievement of the objectives
• The acquisition of the competences

Evaluation criteria: 

They are the specific referent models to evaluate students’ learning. They describe what must be assessed and students must achieve.

The didactic methodology that includes both:

• A description of teaching practices, as well as
• The organization of teachers’ work.

That is to say, it is a set of strategies, procedures and organized actions.

Evaluative learning standards:

They are the specification of the evaluation criteria that allow to define the learning results and that specify what the students must know, understand, know how to do in English. 

• They must be observable, measurable, graduable.
• Schools will have autonomy to elaborate, approve and carry out:

                          - An educational project.

                          - A management project

PLANNING

• For each of the communicative tasks listed and described in the standards.
• We will have to incorporate the set of contents included in its corresponding block of activity.
• To evaluate the degree of acquisition of each of the earning standards of a particular language activity, we will apply each and every criterion of evaluation included and described for the corresponding activities.

The curricular proposal

The curricular proposal will be elaborated by the stage teaching team, and will comprise the following elements: 

             a) Contextualisation of the stage objectives and the integration of the key competences in the curricular elements.

             b) The methodological and didactic principles

             c) Strategies and instruments for the evaluation of students’ learning.

             d) Curricular and organisational measures of individualised attention.

Criteria for grade advancement.

             e) Reading plan

             f) Information and communication technologies plan

             g) Integration of cross-curricular elements.

             h) Agreement for improving learning outcomes.

Didactic plannings

1. Didactic plannings for each areas will be elaborated by the team that teaches in the same school year.
2. Didactic plannings must include, at least, the following elements:

             a) Sequence and timing of contents.

             b) Profile for each key competence or relation between the evaluative  learning standars and each competence. The elaboration of these profiles of the key competences will make its evaluation easier.

             c) Evaluation criteria.

             d) Strategies and instruments for the students’ learning.

             e) Methodological and didactic decisions.

             f) Procedures of evaluation and evaluation of the curricular adaptations.

             g) Didactic resources.

             h) Students’ materials, including textbooks.

             i) Program of extra-curricular and complementary activities.

             j) Evaluation procedure of the didactic planning and its indicators.