Question

Create and present macro lesson for the pedagogical subject using powerpoint

Answer 1

To teach is first to understand “ (Shulman, 1986)
TeacherS’ Knowledge
“To teach is first to understand “ (Shulman, 1986)
“If the promise of the teaching profession is to achieve, we must attend to the processes by which its knowledge base is developed and transmitted” (Howsam et al. (1976)


4 Knowledge Base of Teaching
What knowledge base?
Is enough known about teaching to support a knowledge base?
Isn’t teaching little more than personal style, artful communication, knowing some subject matter, and applying the results of recent research on teaching effectiveness?
Policymakers and Teacher Educators :
Basic skills
Content knowledge
General pedagogical skills


5 Models of Teacher Knowledge
Elbaz (1983) – 5 components:
a) knowledge of self
b) knowledge of the milieu of teaching
c) knowledge of subject matter
d) knowledge of curriculum development
e) knowledge of instruction
Leinhardt & smith (1985)- 2 components
a) knowledge of subject’s matter
b) knowledge of lesson’s structure


6 Models of Teacher Knowledge
Shulman (1986) – 7 categories of knowledge
Content knowledge
General pedagogical knowledge
Pedagogical contents knowledge (PCK)
Curriculum knowledge
Knowledge of learners and their characteristics
Knowledge of educational context
Knowledge of educational ends, purpose, and value and their philosophical and historical grounds


7 Content knowledge (Subject matter knowledge
The amount and organisation of knowledge per se in the mind of the teacher.
Substantive structure:
Knowledge of the major facts, concepts, principles within a field and the relationships among them.
Syntactic structure:
Knowledge regarding methods, rules of evidence and proofs in that domain and into how knowledge is being evaluated by the discipline’s experts.