EDP2701

Practicum studies A (primary)

Lecturer-in-charge to be advised

6 points - 2 hours per week - Full-year subject - Peninsula

Objectives Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to undertake teaching responsibilities and to practise basic teaching skills for periods ranging from one hour to a half-day in duration; discuss the basic teaching model in terms of framing and formulating lesson aims and objectives, establishing pupil entering behaviour, determining and using instructional aids, sequencing instruction, and evaluating lesson outcomes; demonstrate an understanding of simple disciplinary strategies conducive to maintaining classroom discipline and management; discuss and practise strategies associated with introducing and closing lessons, explaining, questioning, using reinforcement strategies, sequencing instruction and evaluating lesson outcomes.

Synopsis This subject introduces students to the fundamental components of a lesson through examination and discussion of a simple teaching model, and provides a background for undertaking basic teaching tasks, incorporated selected teaching skills introduced in on-campus sessions. Additional sessions enable students to examine factors relating to classroom discipline and the impact of pupil behaviour on classroom organisation and pupil achievement.

Assessment Examination: 50% - Portfolio: 50% - Eighty per cent attendance - Hurdle: satisfactory standard in all assessment items

Recommended texts

Barry K and King L. Beginning teaching Social Science Press, 1993
Moyles Janet (ed.) Beginning teaching: Beginning learning in primary education Open University Press, 1995
Rogers W A Decisive discipline Institute of Educational Administration, 1989
Tauber Robert T Classroom management. Theory and practice 2nd edn, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1995

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