Developing a Tutoring Program for an interdisciplinary university task

Abstract

The teacher degrees at the Teaching College of Bilbao from Basque Country University UPV/EHU have a four-monthly modular structure. In each module students have to perform an interdisciplinary task that includes all subjects of the module. This paper presents the proposal that a team of six teachers from different fields of knowledge has designed to address the tutoring of that task. The tutoring has been carried out with students that are studying the second module of the Primary Education Grade, which belongs to the first year of the degree. In this module the task consists in working in groups following the PBL methodology (Problem-Based Learning). The objectives were to redesign the initial scenario, design a plan of tutoring for students, and socialize results among other teachers of the module. The initial scenario has been written up taking into account the objectives and the activities of the Modular Interdisciplinary Task (TIM). The tutoring plan, organized in several sessions, includes the objectives to be achieved, tasks to be performed, the methodology -which is based on cooperative learning-, and the assessment. Besides, the results have been shared with other teachers of the module so that the results of this work have effect in the practice of all teachers. Finally, and in order to determine the satisfaction level of students about the changes proposed, a questionnaire has been designed, which has been answered by 61 students.

Keywords

• aprendizaje basado en problemas
• aprendizaje cooperativo
• sistema tutorial
• trabajo en equipo
• interdisciplinariedad