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 nine thematics:
- Teaching: a complex job and a multifaceted professional competence
- Process of planning
- Motivation in school context
- Specific attention to students with school difficulties
- Discipline management in classroom
- Learning management in classroom
- Teachers' believes
- Dealing with heterogeneity
- 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 classroom observations and/or interviews with expert teachers.
· 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.
A vade-mecum, presented to the students during the first didactic exercises session and posted on "eCampus", completes the course specifications.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Recommended or required readings
Course notes and a copy of the ppt will be made available on eCampus for each lesson.
Exam(s) in session
January exam session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
August-September exam session
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
Written work / report
Additional information:
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, including associated pratical work (60%);
- An individual work, including associated pratical work (40%).
Students must obtain a minimum score of 10/20 for each part. In case of failure in one of the two parts of the assessment leads to the score in failure for the final score.
For the second session, students will represent the parts of the assessment for which they had not obtained a minimum score of 10/20.
A vade-mecum, presented to the students during the first didactic exercises session and posted on "eCampus", completes the course specifications.
Work placement(s)
An 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.
Contacts
dgie@uliege.be