Syllabus
What is didactics? Definition of didactics. Teaching based on evidence, effective teaching strategies. Traditional didactic principles. E-U-R. Phases of the learning cycle.
Safe environment, mind setting, working with error. Respectful communication.
Attention and memory. Strategies to support student learning. Metacognition.
Motivating students in teaching, praise and criticism.
Classification of organizational forms of teaching. Teaching methods. Management of independent work of students. Cooperative teaching and its implementation, composition of groups, communication in a group.
Communication in teaching, techniques of dialogical teaching. Interpretation and demonstration of skills.
Continuous feedback, formative evaluation.
Diversity of student population.
System and structure of curricular documents in the Czech Republic. Educational content, curriculum, expected outcomes. Key competencies, cross-sectional topics in primary and secondary school curricula.
Six steps to better teaching
Annotation
The course is an introduction to the theory of teaching, introduces the basic terminology, orientation in the curricular context and a framework for thinking in the field didactics. It leads students to a professional description of learning situations and to an understanding of teaching methods.
It creates prerequisites for follow-up didactic subjects, which will focus on the analysis of strategic teaching models and on the planning and evaluation of teaching.