Interactive Syllabus

Dear students,

The following text will guide you step by step through the assignment of a portfolio task. You will learn a lot from the interactive syllabi, but certainly not everything, so do not forget the importance of your active participation in lectures and seminars.

The purpose of the portfolio task is to analyze the School Educational Program (SEP) of a selected school and prepare a teaching plan for one thematic unit from your specialization subject. The teaching plan should be based on theory and research findings and should also be practically applicable. Ideally, the development of the portfolio task should take place in connection with the activities you perform during your teaching practice.

So, what is the portfolio task really for? The portfolio task is primarily for you - it should be your tool on the path to becoming a quality teacher. Through the portfolio task, you will become familiar with the SEP (typically the SEP of a school where you are doing your teaching practice). It is useful and necessary to know the visions that your school identifies with, and it is also expected that you will identify with these visions during your practice. At the same time, it is useful and necessary to become acquainted with the goals and contents of the subjects you will be teaching at the selected school. These goals and contents may vary from school to school and often may not be in line with the textbooks used. Textbooks are usually not the only source for preparing your teaching. From a teaching planning perspective, the portfolio task primarily serves to give you space for reflecting on your own teaching and justifying what you want to do with your students in the classroom. Quality teaching preparation should primarily stem from the goals and contents of education defined by the curriculum, should have a clear structure, and its individual elements should be interconnected. How can you tell if teaching preparation is well-thought-out and interconnected? Firstly, it's about the fact that the teaching goals you set will be linked not only to the SEP but also to the activities taking place in the classroom, and at the same time, the teaching goals will be linked to student assessment.

In the interactive syllabi, you will find out in each step what you need to do, what questions to answer, what to create, and what should be the content of the portfolio task. In the frames with a light bulb, we will try to outline the purpose of the portfolio task and its individual parts. It's like peeking behind the scenes and, most importantly, a tool to help you view the task, what it can bring you, and how it can enrich you. At the same time, we try to explain some concepts or guide you on how the work with the curriculum and teaching preparation should look from a teacher's perspective. We also offer some questions for reflection.