Master Degree students’ proposals ans opinions about innovation in the Secondary Education in Spain

Abstract

This present paper describes the research carried out in the subje ct of the The University Master's Degree for Secondary Education, Vocational Training and Language Teaching at the University Jaume I (Castellón, Spain): ‘ Teaching Innovation and Introduction to Educational Research’ in the specialty of Language and Litera ture and Language Teaching. 2 45 students were enrolled in this subject. As part of the subject ́s assessment, students were asked to work in groups in order to write a research proposal divided into two main parts: (i) theoretical background (definition of innovative teaching, main trends and authors and some examples of innovative projects), (ii) students define the innovative tool/resource they have chosen (e.g. blog, podcasts, digital books, Mahara, fakebook, etc.) and design a didactic unit using this vi rtual tool. In this paper, we analyse the virtual resources chosen by our students and reflect on their feelings and opinions about the implementation of these new innovative materials in a real secondary school classroom. Results show that these innovativ e tools can help secondary school teachers to enrich and improve the teaching/learning methods by supporting the traditional methods but, by no means, substituting it; however not all our students think about the possibility of implementing them