Course: General Methodology

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Course title General Methodology
Course code KPG/ODDQ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Šmelová Eva, prof. PhDr. Ph.D.
  • Chudý Štefan, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Plischke Jitka, PhDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Basic concept of education. Pupil. Educational aims (taxonomy, qualities). Curriculum content. Learning tasks. Methods and forms of education fostering learner activity. Pedagogical communication. Motivation and discipline in education. Curricular documents, organisation of a school year. Teacher's personality, their competences. Pdagogical diagnostics and pupil assessment. Self-reflection and self-education of a teacher.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Activating (Simulations, Games, Dramatization)
Learning outcomes
Students should be able to characterize didactics and set its position among other sciences, to master its basic terminology and explain relationships among didactic phenomena. They will be able to characterize personalities of teenagers in current schools, to analyze process of educational decision making and instruction management, to clarify problematics of curriculum and work with educational documents. They will possess elementary communicative skills for educational activities and diagnostics. At the same time they will be able to set educational targets, to construct and decode various types of teaching tasks, to analyze particular types of instructional methods, forms and didactic means.
Students should be able to characterize didactics and set its position among other sciences, to master its basic terminology and explain relationships among didactic phenomena. They will be able to characterize personalities of teenagers in current schools, to analyze process of educational decision making and instruction management, to clarify problematics of curriculum and work with educational documents. They will possess elementary communicative skills for educational activities and diagnostics. At the same time they will be able to set educational targets, to construct and decode various types of teaching tasks, to analyze particular types of instructional methods, forms and didactic means.
Prerequisites
Unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Mark, Didactic Test, Seminar Work

Knowledge of assigned areas. Student portfolio: a review of scientific article, preparation for teaching by S. feature reviews the effectiveness of teaching textbooks.
Recommended literature
  • KALHOUS, Z., OBST, O. (2003). Školní didaktika. Praha.
  • OBST, O. (2006). Didaktika sekundárního vzdělávání. Olomouc.
  • SKALKOVÁ, J. (2007). Obecná didaktika.. Praha : Grada.
  • Vališová,A., Kasíková, H. (2007). Pedagogika pro učitele. Praha: Grada Publishing.


Study plans that include the course
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