How do you explain pedagogy?

Pedagogy is the art or science of being a teacher.

The term generally refers to the strategies of instruction

What are the issues of current global education?

Which teaching methods are most effective?

How to determine which knowledge to be taught?

Which knowledge is most relevant and how well

the learner will retain incoming knowledge?

So the essence of our job as teachers is making

sure that the curriculum serves as a catalyst for

powerful learning for students who with our

guidance and support become skilled and

committed to the process of learning.

It is imperative therefore, that when teachers are

planning for instruction they include effective

teaching techniques for efficient implementation of

the curriculum.

The teacher has for many years been seen as a

giver of information to the learners

This role has rapidly changed with the introduction

of new options and aids for instruction

Team teaching

Individualized instruction

Programmed learning

New buildings

Television equipment

Electronic learning laboratories

Computer assisted terminal learning

Dial-access retrieval systems

These options have tremendously increased a teacher’s

choice of ways to accomplish defined learning outcomes

This creates new concerns for the individual learner new

ways of presenting information in order to plan effective

instruction, your role as teacher is changing rapidly, as

teachers tend to become directors or facilitators of learning

experience and goals.

This gives a teacher the freedom to design an instructional

programme more suitable for the individual students to

taught. With this freedom, a teacher is now strictly required

to posses the basic knowledge contained in the education,

must know what she/he wants to teach by selecting proper

content, in order to be a successful coordinator of the

learning process.

List the Elements of an Instructional System

entering behavior

A teacher should be able to monitor the entering behavior of

the students in other words, he or she should know what

each student brings with him to the course

A course should

be planned to

meet the level of

an average

student, in order

to be able to reach

students both

above and below

the average. This

can be done by

designing a

pre-test, to test

the general

achievement of

a class before the

course starts. The

test should reveal

to what extent the

students know

the terms, concepts

and skills, which

are the part of the

course

instructional strategies and techniques

A strategy is a teacher’s approach to using information,

selecting resources, defining the role of students, and

specific practices used accomplish a teaching objective.

Specific Objectives

When objectives have been well stated and refined content

selection made; criteria of satisfactory performance identified

and entering behavior measured, then the following

questions can be answered:

Which objective can be achieved by the learners

themselves?

Which objective can be achieved through

interaction among the learners themselves?

Which objective can be achieved through

formal presentation by the teacher?

Which ones will be achieved through interaction

between learners and teachers?

Classroom Organization

Many variations may be suggested in classroom organization

but practice a decision about dividing children into groups

must depend on the objectives in questions.

Some objectives require small groupings while others require

large ones. You must also take account of the characteristic

of the content. Some of the material you teach may require

about 40% of the time to be allocated to group work, while

some require 50% face to face discussion.

Individualized approach to learning

In order to take account of the entry level and skills of the

individual learners and speed with which each is capable of

learning.

Depending on the learning styles of the individual students, some may

reach a given objective efficiently through independent study, while

others may reach it most efficiently through formal oral presentation.

Some students may need a tutor nearby for guidance over difficulties.