REVISION AND PREPARATION FOR FINAL EXAM AUGUST 2010 PGB2004 PEDAGOGY IN EDUCATION

NO	TOPICS	IMPORTANT EMPHASIS
1	Teaching and Learning	Concept of pedagogy -          As a science -          As an art
2	Pedagogy: Schools of thoughts Information Processing -          What hold’s a learner’s attention? -          Contiguity refers to simple stimulus-response (S-R) Classical Conditioning -          Operant Conditioning -          Social Learning -          Some Behavioral Approaches towards Teaching -          Mastery learning The humanistic approach and beliefs	Concepts of Schools of thoughts: -          Cognitive -          Behaviorists -          Humanistic Strengths of SoT Relate to application Refer to summary of topic 2
3	Learning to teach The Four Learning Styles: -          Cooperative Learning Purpose and Characteristics -          Purposes and Characteristics of Discovery Learning -          The Constructivism Learning -          Direct Instruction Learning	Concepts and strengths of the 4 learning styles -          Relate to application -          Relate their strengths
4	Conceptual foundation of a lesson plan	1.       Elements of Importance in planning a lesson plan 2.       Plans of varying duration 3.       Parts of a daily lesson 4.       Lesson planning process 5.       Writing lesson goals and objectives. 6.       Purpose for writing goals and objectives. 7.       Behavioral objectives and samples 8.       Goals objectives and samples 9.       Instructional objectives 10.   Lesson plan format and its application 11.   Types of assessment of lesson and samples
5	Lesson and developing lesson plan
6	Structural foundation of a lesson plan
7	Daily lesson plan
8	Assessment format
9	Assessment of lessons
10	Classroom management	1.       Management goals: leaning and self-regulation 2.       Creating responsibility-oriented classrooms 3.       Classroom management: stereotypical perspective 4.       Classroom rules: establishing standard for behavior 5.       Six guidelines for developing rules 6.       Sample consequences for breaking or following rules
11	New structures for education renewal (21st education)	New styles of learning: -          Issues in implementing distance and alternative delivery systems -          Teacher and student readiness.

Format of final examination

1.       Marking scheme is 100%.

2.       There are 64 questions: 60 items are MCQ and 4 structured essay forms.

3.       Section A – 60 questions (60 marks), section B : structured essays – 4 questions (40 marks).