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The Expansion of Pedagogical Alignment: A Step for the Learning Success
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The adaptation of higher education institutions to the changing needs of employers and society
demands critical and creative ability in the elaboration of new curricula. The implementation of these new
curricula requires a change in methodology to the learner-centered approach that is not easy at first and requires
a deeper reflective and analytical attitude from the teacher. How it starts and how should be applied is a
recurring issue at conferences and is the subject of this paper. The first step consists of building the training
structure to be implemented, been usual to build a structure which supports contents, learning outcomes and
assessment methodology. But this is not sufficiently comprehensive to provide guidance and reflection to the
teacher about the learning activities to be implemented nor the learning itself, even with the support of an IT
tool to maintain the focus and establish the development phases of the pedagogical structure. The new feature
presented in this paper is the expansion of the training structure to all educational elements needed for the
implementation of the student-centered approach. An example is given within the context of a course unit of a
short-cycle tertiary educational programme (2 years – 180 ECTS), providing the syllabus planning, the learning
outcomes setting, linking them with their ground level of cognition, the teaching-learning activities setting for
each specific content, the resources to students allocation and/or creation, structuring them on an IT platform,
the pedagogical strategies setting and the evaluation method definition. This planning allows to structure the
whole teaching-learning process of the course unit, considering the available timeframe, the application
environment or context, the students’ competences to exercise and the teacher’s pedagogical skills.
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Pedagogical alignment Constructive alignment Teacher-centered approach Student-centered approach
Citation
Justino, J. & Silviano R. (2019). The Expansion of Pedagogical Alignment: A Step for the Learning Success. The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational & Social Sciences,12, pp. 32-36, 2019.