Early Child Care Intervention
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Início / Intervenção Educativa em Creche
Presentation
The Higher Professional Technical Course in Early Child Care Intervention prepares professionals to support educational activities in association with kindergarten teachers. They provide maternal-type care ensuring the satisfaction of children’s sleep, nutrition and personal hygiene needs and work on various recreational and socio-educational activities that promote the physical, emotional, social and affective well-being of children.
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Reasons to attend the course
Exemption from national exams for entry into higher education and leading to a Higher Professional Technical Diploma.
Guaranteed internship in a real work environment (1 semester).
High employability courses.
Opportunity to continue your studies to Bachelor’s degrees (with credit transfers/equivalencies).
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Access conditions
Who can apply:
- Candidates with a secondary education qualification or a legally equivalent qualification
- Holders of a Technological Specialisation Diploma or a Higher Professional Technical Diploma
- Holders of a higher education degree who wish to seek professional requalification
Candidates over the age of 23 who have passed the exams designed to assess their capacity for higher education attendance can also apply.
Areas relevant to the course: Art History and Culture, Drawing, Portuguese, and Geometry.
Special access contest
National Applicants or equivalent
International applicants (applicants who do not hold Portuguese citizenship, are not citizens of a EU member state and are not family members of Portuguese or citizens of a EU member state, have not lived in Portugal continuously for more than two years as of 1 January of the application year, are not beneficiaries of equal rights and duties status granted under an international treaty as of 1 January of the application year and who are not applying for higher education admission through special admissions and special entry routes).
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Goals
Aims
- To provide maternal-type care, ensuring the physical, emotional, social and affective well-being of children.
- To ensure the satisfaction of children’s individual needs for sleep, nutrition and personal hygiene.
- To ensure compliance with child safety standards and regulations.
- To support various recreational and socio-educational activities carried out in context.
- To assist in carrying out pedagogical activities with children with special educational needs in an inclusive manner.
- To organise and maintain spaces, equipment and materials in good health and safety conditions.
- To engage in interaction among the different stakeholders responsible for children’s education.
- To be familiar with and integrate the educational project, specifically its various components such as the internal regulations, annual activity plan, classroom teaching strategy and the group curricular project.
Graduate profile
Professionals qualified to support educational activities in conjunction with kindergarten teachers, providing maternal-type care that ensures the children’s sleep, nutrition and personal hygiene needs are met. They also work in a number of recreational and socio-educational activities that promote the physical, emotional, social and affective well-being of children.
Professional outcomes
Lar de Santa Teresa, IPSSL
Congregação de Nossa Senhora da Caridade, IPSS
Centro Social e Paroquial de Perre
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de VC
Centro Social e Cultural da Meadela
Academia dos Pimpolhos
Centro Social da Paróquia de Stª. Marta de Portuzelo
Centro Social e Cultural Dr. Nuno Simões
Continuing Studies
Graduates of the CTeSP in Early Childhood Education can apply for the ESE/IPVC Bachelor’s Degree Course in Basic Education without an entrance exam:
- Portuguese
- Mathematics
Study Plan
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Educação e Desenvolvimento da Criança | EFP | S1 | T:18.00 | TP:42.00 | 6.00 | |
| Educação em Literacia Digital | EFP | S1 | T:30.00 | 3.00 | |
| Matemática | EFP | S1 | T:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Nutrição e Saúde na Infância | ENF | S1 | T:27.00 | TP:63.00 | 9.00 | |
| Português | ADH | S1 | T:60.00 | 6.00 | |
| Competências de Relação Interpessoal | CPS | S2 | T:30.00 | 3.00 | |
| Desenvolvimento de Competências Linguísticas na 1ª Infância | EFP | S2 | T:9.00 | TP:21.00 | 3.00 | |
| Motricidade Infantil | CDTL | S2 | T:18.00 | TP:42.00 | 6.00 | |
| Oficina de Expressões Artísticas I | ADH | S2 | T:27.00 | TP:63.00 | 9.00 | |
| Organização das Instituições Educativas | EFP | S2 | T:9.00 | TP:21.00 | 3.00 | |
| Resolução de Problemas e Pensamento Crítico | EFP | S2 | T:9.00 | TP:21.00 | 3.00 | |
| Sociedades e Interculturalidades | CPS | S2 | T:9.00 | TP:21.00 | 3.00 |
| Curricular Unit | Area | Type | Contact hours | ECTS | PUC |
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| Educação e Ética em Contexto | EFP | S1 | T:30.00 | 3.00 | |
| Literatura para a Infância | ADH | S1 | T:18.00 | TP:42.00 | 6.00 | |
| Oficina das Expressões Artísticas II | ADH | S1 | T:27.00 | TP:63.00 | 9.00 | |
| Práticas Educativas Inclusivas | EFP | S1 | T:9.00 | TP:21.00 | 3.00 | |
| Segurança Infantil e Cuidados Imediatos de Saúde | ENF | S1 | T:9.00 | TP:21.00 | 3.00 | |
| Supervisão e Acompanhamento de Atividades Lúdico - Motoras | EFP | S1 | T:18.00 | TP:42.00 | 6.00 | |
| Estágio | EFP | S2 | E:610.00 | O:30.00 | OT:170.00 | 30.00 |
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Employability
(Português) Taxa de empregabilidade
http://infocursos.medu.pt/dges.asp?code=3162&codc=T176
Partnerships and internships
- Lar de Santa Teresa, IPSSL
- Congregação de Nossa Senhora da Caridade, IPSS
- Centro Social e Paroquial de Perre
- Santa Casa da Misericórdia de VC
- Centro Social e Cultural da Meadela
- Academia dos Pimpolhos
- Centro Social da Paróquia de Stª. Marta de Portuzelo
- Centro Social e Cultural Dr. Nuno Simões
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(Português)