PEDAGOGY

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What is Pedagogy

My definition:
What we believe about how best to teach
and why we teach that way based on what
we know about how children learn.
Three ways of thinking about
Teaching

Teaching Teaching
Skills Models
Reflection

Teaching
Relationships
Teaching Models
Our toolbox is the models of teaching, actually models for
learning, that simultaneously define the nature of the content,
the learning strategies, and the arrangements for social
interaction that create the learning contexts of our students.
For example, in powerful classrooms students learn models
for:
Extracting information and ideas from lectures and presentations
Memorising information
Building hypotheses and theories
Attaining concepts and how to invent them
Using metaphors to think creatively
Working effectively with other to initiate and carry out co-operative
tasks
Reaching for the Double Sigma Effect
Number of students

Individual

Group

Whole class

Achievement of students
The Common Curriculum of L2L

Thinking skills
Learning styles
Gardners multiple intelligences
Golemans emotional intelligence
How the brain works Study skills
Guy Claxtons 4Rs (resilience,
recoursefullness, reflectiveness, and
reciprocity)
Mindmapping
General Teaching Knowledge

Generalised Effective
pedagogical subject
knowledge teaching
Disconnected Knowledge

Knowledge of
the discipline
Effective
subject
teaching
Generalised
pedagogical
knowledge
Pedagogical Content
Knowledge

Knowledge of
the discipline

Pedagogical Effective
content subject
knowledge teaching

Generalised
pedagogical
knowledge
Capacity to Learn

Principles of learning Principles of teaching


Effort is a more important High expectations and
determinant of achievement challenging targets should
than ability be set for all

Given the right time and While the standards should


support, almost all can remain constant, time and
become proficient learners support should be varied
according to individual
Are there standards in place and targets for all
students? Do we vary student
time andneed
support?
Constructing Knowledge

Principle of Learning Principle of teaching


Knowledge is a constructive Students should be
process: learners actively encouraged to be active
make meaning and learners and problem-
construct ideas and the solvers
connections between them

Are students encouraged to be active learners when:


About 2/3 of the talk in classrooms is done by the teacher,
About 2/3 of teacher talk is organization-controlling talk?
So

We teach not to produce little living


libraries on a subject, but rather to get
students to think mathematically for
themselves, to consider matters as an
historian does, to take part in the
process of knowledge-getting. Knowing
is a process not a product.
Adapted from: Jerome Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction (1966)

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