Pedagogical unit and teacher training: a training device for teacher candidates in clinical practice in the classrooms on beginning literacy

Abstract

An investigation is presented that deals with teacher training in beginning literacy at the Escuela Normal Superior Nº 7 of the City of Buenos Aires, a teacher certification college. It is proposed to design, implement and explore a teacher training device to search the connections between the subject Initial Literacy and classroom practice. It intends to accompany the processes of initial literacy proposed by the pedagogical unit at the primary level, through diversified teaching proposals and flexible and focused groupings. It is a qualitative study of an exploratory nature that assumes an educational research perspective called “design studies”. The device proved its potential for training teachers and monitoring children’s learning, but also its complexity and the need to install certain conditions for its operation.