EDU301 Handouts

Table of Contents:

Lesson 01 Lesson 02 Lesson 03 Professional Behavior and Context of School Lesson 04 Teacher’s Responsibility and the Level of Schooling Lesson 05 Promoting Deeper Understanding Lesson 06 Instructional Decision Making Lesson 07 Types of Knowledge Lesson 08 Educational Equity Lesson 09 Planning for Instruction Lesson 10 Blooms Taxonomy Lesson 11 Affective and Psychomotor Domain Lesson 12 Performance Objectives Lesson 13 Levels and Limitations of Planning Lesson 14 Overall Considerations For Instructional Planning Lesson 15 Unit Planning Lesson 16 Lesson Planning Lesson 17 Lesson Plan format Lesson 18 Content Forms and Sequencing Lesson 19 Presentation Modes Lesson 20 Information Processing Theory & Graphic Organizers Lesson 21 Models of Lesson Organization Lesson 22 Multi-Methodology as an Instructional Process Lesson 23 Concept of Child Lesson 24 Early Years Education Lesson 25 Big Ideas and Generative Concepts Lesson 26 Essential Questions in Adolescent Teaching Lesson 27 Big Ideas and Essential Questions Lesson 28 Integrated Themes Lesson 29 Inquiry Teaching and Higher Level Thinking Lesson 30 Inquiry Processes and Constructivism Lesson 31 Guided Inductive Inquiry Lesson 32 Models & Considerations in Guided Inductive Inquiry Lesson 33 Scientific Method Lesson 34 Problem-Based Learning (PBL) Lesson 35 Cooperative Learning Lesson 36 Cooperative Learning Strategies Lesson 37 Organizing Cooperative Learning Lesson 38 Project Learning Lesson 39 Discussion Method Lesson 40 Direct Instruction Lesson 41 Discovery Learning Vs Presentation Lesson 42 Motivation for Learning Lesson 43 Teaching Models for Motivation Lesson 44 Teaching Tools Lesson 45 Effective Teaching

Lecture # 01

•  Perceive teaching as a social, political and ethical activity.
•  Describe teaching perceptions as culturally and socially embedded.
•  Use different metaphors to define teaching and teachers.

Short interviews from three people were taken to know their perspectives about teaching and

teachers.

Interview 1:

Teachers are the future makers of young generation. Teaching is a very respectable

profession. Regarding this, teachers have some expectations that he will wear a hat of many

roles. The roles are of a good communicator, evaluator, decision maker, class manager and

member of a team or group. Teachers must play all these roles with complete responsibility. My

philosophy of choosing teaching as a profession is that I want to motivate my students to learn in

a way that has positive influence on what they think and act. I see teacher as a gardener and

teaching strategies as a fertilizer to grow the students just like a seed. At the end, I must say that

learning process in the classroom will never stop. Students learn from the teachers and teachers

learn from the students.

Interview 2:

Teaching is a noble profession. Teacher is the source to impart knowledge to the students.

The goal of teaching must be to provide the students with conceptual knowledge rather than

focusing them to rote learning or memorization, so that they should not face problems in their

practical lives. Teachers are the agents who can bring change to the society. Teacher is a path or

a road map on which the students travel to get their destination or goal.

Interview 3:

Teaching is a self-oriented profession which serves to guide nation to access successful

future. I adopted my career as a teacher because a teacher helps the students to become what they

want to become. It is expected from a teacher that he should act as a professional educator who

considers the needs of the students.

Assumptions about teaching:

•  Teaching is a noble profession.
•  It is an activity to impart knowledge.
•  It is a way of developing certain desirable behaviors among students.
•  Teaching is an activity. It is way to teach people discipline, to teach students discipline.

Different perspectives of education in history:

The important role is of the Prophets and saints who teach in informal settings.

Informal education is education that is not given in proper schools. And if we see, Buddha,

Pythagoras, Jesus Christ, Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W) and Karl Marx

They all did it in informal organizations.

Informal settings are important means of learning.

Apprentice ship model: is also a way of learning. A person who wants to learn a skill spends a

certain period of time with a skillful person. In this way, the person who doesn’t have the skill,

learn those skills.

It is based on Vygotsky’s work, which involves peers working closely together with a

teacher in joint problem solving. e.g. workshops and skill-learning centers.

Assumptions:

•  To understand how things actually developed, and who the prominent people are, who

worked in this area?

•  It was 16th century, actually which perceptions about education, teaching and learning

developed. In past, except Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, rest of the people thought education as a means of status quo.

•  Extra-curricular activities are always considered as extra.

What seems philosophy of education of Prophets?

•  To equip people with basic literacy
•  To give information
•  To make them learn skills
•  To bring societal change