Eder Coelho Paula

Teaching Responsibilities:
* Deliver teaching and support students within the PGDE Primary Programme and the MA Primary Gaelic. Assessment and marking relating to teaching activities, supervision and assessment and marking of practical work, projects and dissertations, and planning, developing, and reviewing own approach to teaching and teaching materials.
* I have contributed to curriculum development and the design/revision of course units in the subject areas (Primary Education Programme and MA Primary Gaelic):
- Dimensions of Teaching: Social Studies, Science, Technologies, RME, IDL, Inclusive Practices, Sustainability, Pluriliteracies, Enquiry-based Learning.
- Making and Conceptualising Curriculum: Social Studies, Technologies, Sciences, Literacies, Health and Wellbeing, STEAM.
- Pedagogies: Children Development, Critical Pedagogy. - Teaching in School 1, 2 and 3: Placement Supervision.
* Designed and implemented a reviewed version of the Social Studies unit of the course Primary Studies 3 within the MA Primary Gaelic. Also designed and implemented a reviewed lecture for the unit about Reading Difficulties for the same course.

Administrative responsibilities:
Attend all relevant meetings. Return personal development statements and final profiles required by the GTCS and attend all relevant meetings. Collaborate with other team members in the development of the school placement experience. Participation as a member of the board interviewing prospective candidates to become Student Teachers within the PGDE Primary Programme cohort (2024-25).

Supervision Services:
Undertake placement supervision and assessment of students during the school experience elements of the programmes. Liaise with school staff and visit schools, gathering and analysing evidence and reporting on student performance, mentoring, and guiding students, and writing, reading, referencing against the appropriate GTCS Professional Standards.

Scholarship Duties:
Collaboration as a team member implementing the PGDE Primary Winter Wellbeing event, which aimed to provide Student Teachers within the programme with a stress-free environment of collaboration and social sharing of ideas and networking. I have also been involved in an initiative within the Technologies team within the PGDE Primary Programme in which we make it available for the University of Edinburgh PhD candidates’ opportunities to enhance their praxis as educators by sharing knowledge about how teaching is undertaken and by giving them opportunities to co-lead classes related to their expertise too.

Teaching responsibilities:
Responsible for teaching in-service teachers and graduate students from UFRGS in workshops and courses about the creation and development of digital educational technology syllabus.
Administrative responsibilities:
Coordinated the first program that provided digital education technology training for in-service Primary School Teachers and Students from the Alvorada City Council. Responsible for
liaising with local, regional, State and Federal authorities to provide STEAM afterschool programs in the council and writing research and grant projects that provide the infrastructure so the same projects could work (from 2010-2013).
Scholarship duties:
Worked in conjunction with the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul) and institutions such as Mostratec to create and sustain educational opportunities for the STEAM afterschool program participants throughout the school year.

• Role: Identification and categorisation of potential textual data (verbal and non-verbal posts, comments, discussions) in social media platforms. Assist in data gathering and initial data coding.

• Teaching responsibilities:
  Development, implementation, and assessment of a STEAM afterschool program that promotes Digital Literacy and Digital Citizenship for Primary and Secondary School students from the City of Edinburgh City area.
  Administrative responsibilities:
  Liaising between Codebase Ltd. Coordinators and the Prewired team stakeholders to provide the needed infrastructure and financial support needed to keep Prewired working as a SCIO. Liaising between Prewired and Scottish Education authorities to promote STEAM educational opportunities. Prewired became the main free educational institution providing access to all programming languages curricula for Primary School students in Scotland since 2014 and a national reference in terms of STEAM afterschool program since my tenure as a board member.
  Scholarship duties:
  Weekly mentoring Primary and Secondary School students acting as a facilitator in activities such as educational robotics workshops and challenges.

• Drafted engaging presentations for diverse audiences.
• Planned, developed and implemented robust PR strategies to manage brand reputation.
• Captivated listeners to inspire involvement with [Type] organisations and causes.
• Served as guest speaker at several charity events-raised awareness about pressing societal issues.

Seminar: Favelas in pictures: an overview of favelas in Rio under the lenses of
artivism
Seminar: Posso te oferecer um cafezinho? The Impact of the Coffee Industry on Brazilian Sociocultural, Economic, and Political Landscape
Seminar: Beyond Zoom and Canvas: the use of technology for in-class participation and between-classes discussions

• Provided welcoming, stimulating learning environment for diverse students.
• Devised creative assignments to enhance student involvement in class.
• Catered to diverse learning needs with differentiated instruction techniques.
• Collaborated with teaching assistants and mentors to deliver additional support to struggling students.

Administrative responsibilities:
Students’ assessment, participation in meetings with School Teachers and headmasters, writing yearly reports about students’ assessment and attainment.
Scholarship duties:
Mentoring groups of students developing original interdisciplinary projects to participate in project-based learning opportunities.

Teaching contribution:
Making a 4-hour/week teaching contribution to the following courses across the Moray House School of Education and Sport:
(a) postgraduate levels: (i) qualitative and quantitative research in the Education field; (ii) learning spaces and digital technologies; and (iii) critical issues in digital education.
Supervision Services:
Co-supervision of two MA dissertations (both in Digital Education Technologies) and one PhD thesis (also in Digital Education Technologies). Research and scholarly activities:
(1)
Developing doctoral research about the impact of STEM afterschool programs towards the development of interest towards technology careers. Understanding the impact of such programs on public policies nationally and regionally.
(2)
Participating in and contributing to research clusters across the school (e.g., Centre for Research in Digital Education and Children and Technology).

Teaching responsibilities:
To create, implement and assess English curricula for Secondary School students interested in taking the Cambridge, IELTS or TOEFL certification tests.
Administrative responsibilities:
Responsible for implementing the first LMS of that institution after being trained by Pearson.

• Used established standards and teaching expertise to plan learning programmes.
• Attended professional development sessions to stay updated with latest teaching methodologies.
• Adapted teaching methods and materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Communicated regularly with parents about their children's performance and behaviour at school.

Scholarship duties: I developed and implemented several long-term IDL projects that intersected with fields such as Social Studies, RME, Music and Technology and aimed to provide learning opportunities for Primary School students to develop STEAM and lifelong skills. Between them, the creation of annual Science Fairs, Country Exhibitions, Educational Robotics Exhibitions and participating in national movie festivals that allowed Primary School students’ projects.

• Teaching responsibilities:
  Social Studies Lead Teacher. To create, implement and assess a history curriculum for Primary School students following a Freirean approach and according to the National Curriculum Parameters (PCNs).
  Administrative responsibilities:
  Students’ assessment, participation in meetings with School Teachers and headmasters, writing yearly reports about students’ assessment and attainment.
  Scholarship duties:
  Development and implementation of interdisciplinary projects with students from the final years of Primary that aimed to provide learning opportunities (drama school, STEAM and music) in which they could develop lifelong skills and literacy.
  I also volunteered in projects within the State Department of Education which implemented in-service teacher education within areas such as IDL, Social Studies, Technologies, and Music.

• Administrative responsibilities:
  (1)
  Working as part of the Language Institute Study Centre Team supporting the development of research activity.
  (2)
  Conducting and implementing literature review as per the request of the Coordination Team.
  (3)
  To facilitate the access to the Centre to the Graduate and Undergraduate students from the Language Department and serve as a liaison between them and the Centre’s researchers.
  (4)
  Contribute towards the dissemination of research findings, through presentations, and the publication of articles (especially the ones from the Language Institute Studies Centre Conference Proceedings).