Duration
30h Th, 10h Internship, 10h Pr
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long, with partial in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Complementary with the courses of specific didactic, centred on teaching/learning sequences of particular knowledge, this course of general didactics discusses pedagogical issues that may have a more transversal scope.
The course will deal with the following ten thematics:
- Some characteristics of the school system in Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
- Teaching: a job that changes and a professional identity to build
- Process of planning
- Time and learning management
- Discipline management in classroom
- Teachers' believes
- Dealing with heterogeneity
- Motivational dynamic
- Skills development
- Assessment
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
- Discovering and understanding some central concepts of general pedagogy.
- Understanding and developing a critical thinking on certain characteristics of the school system in Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, mainly in terms of teaching practices that can reduce (vs. increase) inequalities between students.
- Confronting one's own ideas for understanding how they may affect one's educational activities.
- Analyzing various factors that may influence students learning.
- Interpreting teaching/learning situations with the aim to understand and evaluate the possible effect of one's actions and to make informed educational choices
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program.
Spécific didactic (partim 1) and associated practical training are co-requisite to general didactic.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The organization of the course is based on the articulation of theory and practice within four training modalities:
· A theoretical course which aims at elaborating a conceptual framework linked with educational researches and teaching practices.
· The exercises, conducted in multidisciplinary groups, which aim at working on one's own conceptions of teaching, in analysing educational practices and specific topics through different situations (as a learner, a teacher, an evaluator, ...).
· An observation training course, which aims at clarifying personal questions concerning teachning and finding some first answers through observations.
· The reflective practice seminars, which aim at enabling the exchange, analysis and conceptualization of the situations encountered during teaching and to think about professional identity. One of the seminar will be devoted to heteroscopy.
The realization of the observation training (SO) as well as the presence at the didactic exercises (ED) and the seminars of reflexive practices (PR) are compulsory.
Except in specific cases appreciated by people in charge of DG
- Two unjustified non-attendances to the didactic exercises (and/or the non-delivery of the attendance sheet of the observation training) lead to the inadmissibility of the student to the written examination.
- Two unjustified non-attendances to the reflexive practices (and/or the non-achievement of the heteroscopy) lead to the inadmissibility to the final individual work.
- The non-attendance (even justified) to more than the half of the didactic exercises or the reflexive practices automatically leads to a NON-ATTENDANCE note (or EXCUSE) for the course.
A vade-mecum, presented to the students during the first didactic exercises session and posted on "myULiège" completes the course specifications.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Face-to-face for the theoretical course (10h), the didactic exercises (20h) and reflexive practices (10h). In schools for the observation training (10h). Besides for the works to realize (see assessment for more information)
Recommended or required readings
Course notes and a copy of the ppt will be made available on myUliège for each lesson.
Assessment methods and criteria
The evaluation concerns abilities to reflect about the teaching practice in link with the real educational contexts from concepts supplied by the theoretical framework, experiences from the teaching practices and formative activities based on the reflective practice seminars. Two parts will be taken into account in the final certification.
- A written examination (January) which aims at checking the understanding of theoretical concepts covered in the theoretical lessons and used in the didactical exercises.
- An individual work (May) based on theoretical arguments and making a critical reflection on aspects of one's own teaching and professional identity.
Students must complete the two parts of the evaluation to get a score for the course (if not, students will get a "0" score). Furthermore, any serious deficiency (score < 8) in one of the two parts of the assessment leads to a serious failure (score <8) for the entire course.
For the second session, students will represent the parts of the assessment for which they had not obtained a minimum score of 10/20.
Work placement(s)
Un observation training course (10h) must be done for the course of General Didactics (see Learning activities and teaching methods).
Organizational remarks
The schedule of the theoretical course is Monday, 18-20 to allow people who work to follow the courses. Special schedule is also planned for the didactic exercises and the reflexive practices seminars (see schedule on the Cifen web-site :
http://www.cifen.ulg.ac.be/agreg/agr_index.htm
Contacts
Isabelle Sente (Assistante) isente@uliege.be