Objectives and Competencies
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Objectives
The training of Primary Education teachers must guarantee the learning of professional competencies, most importantly those contributing to an Education for Democracy. Furthermore, in accordance with the Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education (MECES), it is guaranteed that students:
- Can organize the interactions of each students with the subject matter (knowledge).
- Act as intermediaries so that all the activities have significance, and encourage each student’s development process working cooperatively in a team.
- Acquire the skills to design and organize specialist and multidisciplinary work, as well as to collaborate with the world outside of school.
- Be professionals capable of analysing the context in which their activity is performed and to plan it, to provide a response to the changing society.
- Provide guidance and advice to students as well as learning assessment.
- Have a deep knowledge of the educational stage or cycle in which they are going to work.
- Master the matter or subject they are going to teach as well as the skills to design consistent specialist and multidisciplinary programmes.
- Have training supported by a methodology appropriate to the paradigm of teacher/researcher.
In summary, among the objectives of this degree are the foundational training to be registered Primary Education teachers (6-12 years old) consistent with the requirements of the Spanish educational system, as established by the laws regulating the profession. The curriculum must provide students with the academic and professional knowledge to enable them to consolidate their intellectual training and to be highly committed to their professional career; it must also prepare them to tackle the current challenges in education.
Competencies
Competencies are understood to be the identifiable and assessable set of interconnected knowledge, attitudes, values, abilities and skills, which will allow the students to exercise their professional activity according to the requirements and standards used in the corresponding occupational area.
All University of Almeria degrees explicitly include three types of competencies:
- The generic competencies included in Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, which establishes the organization of official higher education.
- The generic competencies of the University of Almeria (approved by the Governing Council on 17 June 2008). These are cross-curricular competencies common to all the degrees.
- The specific competencies of the degree. These competencies are detailed in the degree’s report and are related to its particular subjects. Some of these competencies may have been agreed at the Andalusian regional level, or for certain degrees, they may be regulated at the state level.
Basic, General and Cross-Curricular Competencies
The basic competencies for all bachelor’s degrees are defined in Royal Decree 1393/2007, of 29 October, and are aimed at the student acquiring general training in one or more disciplines, oriented towards preparing them to carry out professional activities. They will be progressively adapted and as established by the current Royal Decree 822/2021, of 28 September, which establishes the organization of university education and the quality assurance procedure.
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To possess and understand knowledge |
That students have demonstrated they possess and comprehend knowledge in an area of study that is part of the foundation of general secondary education, and is usually found at a level that, although supported in advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the vanguard of the field of study. |
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Knowledge application (CB2) |
That students should be able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and possess the skills that are often demonstrated through developing and defending arguments and solving problems within their area of study. |
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Ability to make judgements (CB3) |
That students have the ability to collect and interpret the relevant data (usually within their area of study) to make judgements, including reflections on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues. |
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Capacity to communicate and social aptitude (CB4) |
That students are able to convey information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialized and non-specialized audiences. |
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Learning skills (CB5) |
That students have developed the learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy. |
The cross-curricular competencies of the University of Almeria, approved by the Governing Council on 17 June 2008, are as follows:
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Basic knowledge of the profession (UAL1) |
Knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable the understanding of new theories, interpretations, methods and techniques within the different disciplinary fields, conducive to the optimal fulfilment of professional requirements. |
| Ability to use ICT (UAL2) | Using Information and Communications Techniques (ICTs) as a tool to express and communicate, to access information sources, as a means of filing data and documents, for presentation tasks, for learning, research and cooperative work. |
| Ability to solve problems (UAL3) | The ability to identify, analyse, and define significant elements that constitute a problem in order to solve it rigorously. |
| Oral and written communication in one's own language (UAL4) | To understand and express ideas, knowledge, problems and solutions clearly and opportunely to a wider, specialized or non-specialized audience (and feelings through words, adapting to the particular situation and audience to gain their understanding and endorsement). |
| The ability to be critical and self-critical (UAL5) |
This is the mental aptitude to question things and be interested in the bases on which ideas, actions and judgements are founded, both one’s own and those of others. |
| Teamwork (UAL6) | To integrate and collaborate actively with other people, areas and organizations to achieve common objectives, in both national and international contexts. |
| Knowledge of a second language (UAL7) | To understand and be understood, both verbally and in writing, using a language other than one's own. |
| Ethical commitment (UAL8) | The ability to think and act on principles of a universal nature that are based on the value of the individual and are directed toward them reaching their full potential. |
| Learning to work autonomously (UAL9) | The ability to design, manage, and execute a task by oneself. |
| Social competence and global citizenship (UAL10) | To respect fundamental rights and equality between men and women, human rights, the values of a peaceful and democratic culture, and environmental and cooperative development principles that promote ethical commitment in a global, intercultural, free and just society. |
Specific competencies
The specific competencies provided by this degree are listed in the degree report.
