Specialist subject teacher

The specialist teacher is a teacher who is responsible for teaching specific content, such as music, physical education or foreign language.

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The subject specialist teacher is a professional who teaches a single subject. In Spain, there are 3 specific subjects: music and plastic arts, physical education and English.

In primary education, music and plastic arts are taught for 1 hour per week, physical education for 2 to 3 hours per week, and foreign language for 2 to 3 hours per week, depending on the year. These specialists normally carry out their teaching in a classroom or space equipped with resources and methodologies specific to the subject, which is why students usually move from their classrooms to the speciality classrooms.

Teachers have the option to specialise in knowledge and teach the different branches of knowledge. Thus, the specialist teacher teaches in all courses and for this reason is not usually a group tutor.

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Lucia Cerrada
Lucia Cerrada
8 April, 2023 2:01 pm

Desde mi punto de vista, este vídeo nos ayuda a comprender las tareas que lleva a cabo un profesor especialista en el aula de primaria.

Is there anything you didn’t know? If so, describe it.
que el profesor especialista imparte docencia en todos los ciclos y cursos.
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Carla
Carla
3 April, 2023 12:15 pm

I believe that this video is very helpfull to understand the function of the specialist subject teacher. So it is a very illustrative and necessary video.

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I would have liked the introduction of different methods that a specialist subject teacher may use in their dairly life as well as how this techniques affect to the class dinamic. It can be a good option for a future video to go further into the information.
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Patricia
Patricia
29 March, 2023 11:14 pm

In my opinion, this video explains perfectly what a specialist subject teacher is. It shows that they have a deeper knowldege on that specific subject and that they have classrooms or materials that are designed speacily for that subject.

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I would have liked to see more visual information about all the existing types of specialist teachers depending on the subject they are skilled at, as the video only shows two of them and he just mentions the others. Maybe that can be explained in another video, because I understand that the principle of this one was a generic explanation of what a specialist subject teacher is.
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Jorge Puente
Jorge Puente
3 March, 2023 10:40 am

I find it interesting to learn about the different profiles of teachers who work as teachers of our children. I think it would also be interesting to know what other facets of the work of these teachers differ from the non-specialist teacher. For example in their tasks of content preparation, assessment, interaction with other teachers of their students.

What information would you add on this topic?
In my experience as a student, we are talking about the times of General Basic Education (EGB), it was already the case that the subjects of physical education and foreign language were taught by specific teachers. As for music, the teacher was the same person as in the other subjects (I remember that it was basically training in basic notions of solfège, playing the flute and singing).
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Adam Kracík
Adam Kracík
15 January, 2023 6:21 pm

Very useful video!

What similarities do you find on this topic in your country?
In the Czech Republic, it works similarly. Concerning primary school, there is always a teacher tutor who teaches the major part of the subjects - the most important and general ones (Czech, Math, National History and Geography, etc.).
What differences do you find on this topic in your country?
Although if one wants to become a teacher in primary school, he or she needs to go through music, PE, or Arts already during his or her studies. Therefore, he or she can teach them then with no problems and there is no necessity to have a special teacher caring out the subject. This all not concerns foreign languages, such as English, which must be taught by a person with a special degree.
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Dino Mancarella
Dino Mancarella
7 November, 2022 10:12 am

it is important to dedicate a space for the Specialist subject teacher because he or she contributes through his or her activity to the student’s training and education

What similarities do you find on this topic in your country?
In a full-time primary school class there are 2 prevailing teachers who distribute all the subjects except religion, for the teaching of which a tenured or fixed-term teacher is appointed from the diocese of the municipality. As for motor and music, it is the same curricular teachers who take care of them, but without a specific title. From this year (2022-2023), a motor teacher with a specific qualification has become mandatory, but only in the fifth classes and from next year also in the fourth classes. Finally, for the teaching of English, you have to be specialised to be able to teach it, i.e. have a qualification that qualifies you for this teaching. So if both class teachers do not have this qualification, another teacher in the school will lend/swap their hours. A specialist teacher can only be appointed (therefore an ad hoc appointment) for the hours that cannot be covered with internal staff.
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