Course code:
043P1		 Course name:
Pedagogy

Academic year:

2019/2020.

Attendance requirements:

042P1

ECTS:

4

Study level:

basic academic studies, integrated basic and graduate academic studies

Study programs:

Chemistry: 2. year, summer semester, elective (E12H1) course

Biochemistry: 2. year, summer semester, elective (E12B1) course

Chemical Education: 2. year, summer semester, compulsory course

Teacher:

Slađana D. Anđelković, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Geography, Studentski trg 3/III, Beograd

Assistants:

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Hours of instruction:

Weekly: three hours of lectures (3+0+0)

Goals:

Preparing students, future chemistry teachers, for educational work in schools. Introducing students to the modern didactic models which include: defining teaching goals, pedagogic strategies for achieving those goals, communication problems and evaluation methods. Developing attitudes and interest in deepening their pedagogic and didactic knowledge, the interest and motivation for pursuing a career in education.

Outcome:

After they have successfully completed the course, students will have: a developed ability to apply theoretical pedagogic and didactic knowledge in planning, realizing and evaluating educational work; a developed ability to take a critical and creative approach in their teaching practice; an excellent foundation for their future pedagogical-didactic education, research and professional development.

Teaching methods:

Interactive, cooperative forms of work, lectures, projects, presentations.

Extracurricular activities:

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Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

  • A collection of selected texts which accompanies the syllabus and which is updated every year in order to keep up with the latest pedagogic work and research results.
  • J. Đorđević, N. Trnavac: Pedagogija, Naučna knjiga, Beograd, 2010.

Supplementary coursebooks:

  • H. Gudjons: Pedagogija - temeljna znanja. Zagreb, Educa, 1994. (pp. 171-204)
  • W. Glasser: Nastavnik u kvalitetnoj školi. Zagreb, Educa, 1999. (pp. 27-38, 79 -84)
  • C. Kyriacou: Temeljna nastavna umijeća. Zagreb, Educa, 2001. (pp. 51-67)
  • E. Terhart: Metode poučavanja i učenja. Zagreb, Educa, 2001. (pp. 121-182)

Additional material:

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  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

10 points (3 hours a week)

Syllabus:

  1. Education as the widest pedagogic process and concept, the basic characteristics of the development of education and pedagogy.
  2. The possibilities and limitations of education.
  3. The goals and tasks of education - the realization of goals and tasks of education according to the areas of development and aspects of education.
  4. General methods of education.
  5. School and the school system, the development, critical views, the types of schools, the structure of educational activities of school.
  6. School and its surroundings, education within the family, education in free time, social and free activities of students, the educational importance of the means of mass communication.
  7. The participants in education and their roles, the positions and roles, social and educational interaction within school itself, availability and cooperation of the school with its local and global surroundings.
  8. The teacher’s role, the factors which determine it, the character of the teacher’s role, the teacher’s role in teaching, the teacher’s role regarding the syllabus, the teacher’s role regarding the forms and methods of work, the teacher’s role regarding students - individualization of work, the teacher’s role regarding the class as a group, the teacher’s role in cooperation with students’ parents - the integration of developmental contexts, the teacher’s role at school, the teacher’s activity in teachers’ boards and professional sections, participation in social and cultural events at school, participation in professional organizations and professional training programs and life-long development.
  9. Student’s role, pedagogic interaction: interdependence of students’ activity and teachers’ activity, quantitative aspects of pedagogic communication, discipline.
  10. The structure of the teaching process.
  11. The class session, the concept, stages, typology, different structural models, articulation of instructions, types of instruction.
  12. Planning and preparing educational work, curricular approach in the process of planning and writing a syllabus.
  13. Demands on modern teaching: problem-based learning and contextual learning, the holistic approach, the elements of learning at school (problem-based learning, cooperative learning, experiential learning, project-based approach, integrative learning), teaching students with special needs.
  14. Monitoring, evaluating and marking students’ progress.
  15. Family-school cooperation.
  16. The contemporary demands of pedagogy: intercultural pedagogy, ecological pedagogy.

Semester papers:

5 points

Oral exam:

70 points

Projects:

15 points