Browsing by Subject "Primary schools"

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    Estudio de las características que percibe el profesorado en alumnos con alta capacidad intelectual
    (2003-01-01) Peña del Agua, Ana Mª; Martínez, Raquel-Amaya; Velázquez, Ana Esther; Barriales, Mª del Rosario; López, Lydia
    This study tries to take attention to the high number of active teachers who have received little training about the special educational needs the intellectual giftedness students have. This research aims to know the foundations teachers use to consider that a student has high intellectual abilities. A questionnaire of 55 clossed-answer items was used to gather information. The sample is composed of 188 tutors (teachers) of grades 5th and 6th who belong to state and Private Primary Schools in Asturias (Spain). Results show that teachers not always follow the most appropiate theoretical bases according to identify gifted students and to teach them accordingly.
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    Primary School Teachers’ Perceptions of the Level of Development of Low-Order Cognitive Skills Under the Content and Language Integrated Learning Approach
    (Frontiers Media, 2022-02-10) Campillo-Ferrer, José-María; Miralles-Martínez, Pedro; Didáctica de las Ciencias Matemáticas y Sociales
    Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become widespread in many countries around the world in an effort to improve learners’ communicative competence in a foreign language (FL) and content acquisition in non-language areas (NLA). A successful CLIL programme must integrate the 4Cs, i.e., content, communication, cognition and culture. In this study, we focus on the synergies of developing thinking skills by combining language, content and cognition. Specifically, the aim of this study is to examine CLIL teachers’ development of low-order cognitive skills (LOTS) in the subjects of Science and Social Science in the first two years of primary education in the Region of Murcia, Spain. For this purpose, we use a mixed method that combines qualitative and quantitative techniques to test the extent to which LOTS are developed within this integrated approach. The results show that most of the cognitive processes promoted by CLIL teachers are those related to fostering understanding among pupils, which sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses of these programmes and on a wide range of related factors on which further reviews are needed.