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POSTGRADUATE REGULATIONS & SYLLABUSES 2012 - 2013
THE FACULTY OF HUMANITIES & EDUCATION
SEMESTER: I AND II
YEAR: I
COURSE CODE: EDSS 5281
COURSE TITLE: DESIGNING INSTRUCTION FOR THE
ADOLESCENT LEARNERS – THE TEACHING OF SOCIAL
SCIENCES
NUMBER OF CREDITS: 6
PREREQUISITES: NONE
COURSE DESCRITION: This course explores the knowledge,
skills, attitudes and sensitivities required for the teaching
of subject matter content that comprises the disciplines
collectively referred to as Social Sciences namely: Geography,
History, Social Studies, Caribbean Studies, Sociology, Business
Studies and Economics.
Purpose of the Course/Rationale
This course is intended to prepare novice teachers for teaching
in a wide variety of school contexts which requires students to
develop and exercise their creative and innovative ability as
subject specialists. Students are equipped by way of suitable
learning experiences facilitated by the lecturers and tutors to
craft lessons which are interesting, meaningful and enjoyable.
Course Content
There are 5 areas of focus as follows:
• Orientation to curriculum
This introduces prospective teachers to three core areas of
focus that will inform their understanding of their future
work. It takes a macro view of the teaching act and situates
it within the broad context of the wider curriculum.
• Principles of Instructional design
The focus here is on introductory, core concepts necessary
for students to design lessons and units, such as learning
outcomes, instructional objectives, instructional stimulus,
taxonomies, and learning activities.
• Integrating Technology in Teaching and Learning
This will provide students with the analytical skills to
deconstruct media products and explore ways in which
technologies can be used in teaching and learning. It will
sensitize educators to the theoretical and practical issues
involved in the integration of computers, audio-visual
equipment and other technologies used for instruction
and provide training in the design and production of
educational materials.
• 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, and
• Curriculum interface.
Principles of instructional design
• Conceptualizing and planning units of instruction
• Analyzing adolescent students’ instructional needs
• 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
• 2Choosing assessment strategies.
• Selecting appropriate pedagogical strategies
• Direct instruction, lectures, group work, individual
work, experiential learning
• Choosing pedagogy for differentiated classes
• Selectingstrategiesthatcaterformultipleintelligences
and learning styles (e.g. role playing, drama, hot
seating, debating)
• Questioning and listening skills, motivational skills,
interpersonal skills.
Integrating technology in teaching & learning
• Principles of technology integration
• Policy, pedagogy and practice
• Creating wikis, blogs, podcasts, websites
• Creating webpages and other virtual spaces to facilitate
differentiated teaching and 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
• Differentiating instruction for variations in students’
preferred ways of learning
• Issues in classroom management
• Learner behaviours, student subcultures, gendered
behaviours.