Faculty of Humanities and Education (Postgraduate) - The University ...

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POSTGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2012 - 2013
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION
• Managing diverse classroom environments
The focus is on preparing students to manage the wide
diversity of adolescent learners, learner behaviours, and
physical settings they are likely to encounter across a
range of school types. Topics to be taught include planning
differentiated instruction, using sociometric data, and
selecting classroom management strategies.
• Teaching disciplinary content
The focus will be on discipline-specific issues and how they
may be conceptualised and approached pedagogically.
Detailed listing of topics
Orientation to curriculum
• The teacher and the teaching act
• Understanding the curriculum
• Curriculum interface.
Principles of instructional design
• Conceptualizing and planning units of instruction
• Analyzing adolescent students’ instructional needs
[e.g. in writing instruction]
• Defining broad unit purposes
• Defining constituent lessons for a unit
• Sequencing lessons in a unit
• Using instructional taxonomies
• Setting instructional objectives
• Planning for affective outcomes
• Assessing learning
• Infusing visual and performing arts in the
curriculum.
• Planning lessons
• Defining an instructional purpose for a
lesson
• Matching instructional purposes to
instructional objectives
• Selecting stimulus materials
• Sequencing instructional events within
lessons
• Creating coherence within lessons
• Choosing assessment strategies.
• Selecting appropriate pedagogical strategies
• Direct instruction,lectures,group work,individual
work, experiential learning
• Choosing pedagogy for differentiated classes
• Selecting strategies that cater for multiple
intelligences and learning styles (e.g. role playing,
drama, hot seating, debating)
• Questioning and listening skills, motivational
skills, interpersonal skills.
Integrating technology in teaching and learning
• Principles of technology integration
• Policy, pedagogy and practice
• Creating wikis, blogs, podcasts, websites
• Creating webpages and other virtual spaces to facilitate
differentiated teaching & learning
• Understanding legal and ethical issues:copyright,plagiarism,
access and other legal issues.
Managing diverse classroom environments
• Core principles of differentiated instruction: differentiating
instruction for variations in student readiness and interests
• Differentiatinginstructionforvariationsinstudents’preferred
ways of learning
• Issues in classroom management
• Learner behaviours, student subcultures, gendered
behaviours.
Teaching disciplinary content [English]
• General orientation to curriculum
• The notion of curriculum
• Where disciplinary knowledge comes from
• Teachers’ work, the nature of teaching, the teaching self
• Nature of the linguistic environment
• Brief historical account
• Creole language and its impact on SE learning
• Creole structures
• Instructional strategies
• Teaching concepts in English (for e.g. irony, symbolism,
metaphor,
concepts)
personification, hyperbole, grammatical
• Principles of teaching concepts and skills
• Preparing examples and non-examples
• Selecting suitable learning activities
• Selecting appropriate technology tools
• Reading Skills
• Comprehension instruction strategies (DRTA, KWL,
•
SQ3R, Anticipation guide), inferencing
Critical literacy
• Vocabulary acquisition
• Writing Skills
• Spelling
• Diagnosis of student writing
• Teaching strategies
• Genres of writing
• Grammar
• SE and Creole structures
• Parts of speech
• Instructional issues and teaching strategies
• Creative approaches to teaching grammar
• Oracy
• Listening skills
• Speaking Standard English – register, code switching
• Literature
• Narrative techniques/author’s intention – point of view,
setting, characterization, literary devices
• Models for teaching literature
• Challenges in teaching literature
• Nature of genres
• Teaching strategies.