How do you explain pedagogy?
Pedagogy is the art or science of being a teacher.
The term generally refers to the strategies of instruction
So the essence of our job as teachers is making
sure that the curriculum serves as a catalyst for
powerful learning for students who with our
guidance and support become skilled and
committed to the process of learning.
It is imperative therefore, that when teachers are
planning for instruction they include effective
teaching techniques for efficient implementation of
the curriculum.
These options have tremendously increased a teacher’s
choice of ways to accomplish defined learning outcomes
This creates new concerns for the individual learner new
ways of presenting information in order to plan effective
instruction, your role as teacher is changing rapidly, as
teachers tend to become directors or facilitators of learning
experience and goals.
This gives a teacher the freedom to design an instructional
programme more suitable for the individual students to
taught. With this freedom, a teacher is now strictly required
to posses the basic knowledge contained in the education,
must know what she/he wants to teach by selecting proper
content, in order to be a successful coordinator of the
learning process.
entering behavior
A teacher should be able to monitor the entering behavior of
the students in other words, he or she should know what
each student brings with him to the course
A course should
be planned to
meet the level of
an average
student, in order
to be able to reach
students both
above and below
the average. This
can be done by
designing a
pre-test, to test
the general
achievement of
a class before the
course starts. The
test should reveal
to what extent the
students know
the terms, concepts
and skills, which
are the part of the
course
instructional strategies and techniques
A strategy is a teacher’s approach to using information,
selecting resources, defining the role of students, and
specific practices used accomplish a teaching objective.
Specific Objectives
When objectives have been well stated and refined content
selection made; criteria of satisfactory performance identified
and entering behavior measured, then the following
questions can be answered:
Which objective can be achieved by the learners
themselves?
Which objective can be achieved through
interaction among the learners themselves?
Which objective can be achieved through
formal presentation by the teacher?
Which ones will be achieved through interaction
between learners and teachers?
Many variations may be suggested in classroom organization
but practice a decision about dividing children into groups
must depend on the objectives in questions.
Some objectives require small groupings while others require
large ones. You must also take account of the characteristic
of the content. Some of the material you teach may require
about 40% of the time to be allocated to group work, while
some require 50% face to face discussion.
In order to take account of the entry level and skills of the
individual learners and speed with which each is capable of
learning.