MPDR071 School education

Faculty of Medicine
autumn 2023
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PaedDr. Hana Horká, CSc. (lecturer)
Mgr. Alena Baslerová (alternate examiner)
doc. Mgr. Jana Kratochvílová, Ph.D. (alternate examiner)
Guaranteed by
doc. PaedDr. Hana Horká, CSc.
Department of Education – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Mgr. Sabina Autratová
Supplier department: Department of Education – Faculty of Education
Timetable
Mon 10:00–11:40 učebna 39
Prerequisites
The course builds on, deepens and generalizes students' knowledge and experience acquired during teaching practice and in subject didactics. The course responds to new findings of pedagogical, psychological and didactic research on school teaching and learning and tries to integrate and evaluate them for school practice.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Optometry (programme LF, N-OPTO)
  • Optometry (programme LF, N-SZ) (2)
  • Health Sciences (programme LF, N-SZ, specialization Teaching Specialization Optics and Optometrics)
  • Health Sciences (programme LF, N-SZ, specialization Teaching Specialization Human Alimentation)
Course objectives
The course elaborates on students' knowledge and experiences gained during teaching practice and field didactics courses. The course aims at incorporating new knowledge from educational, psychological and pedagogical research on school education into teacher education. It aims at developing and supporting future teachers' professional vision, knowledge and acting. The course incorporates three thematic areas: (a) theory and practice of school, (b) theory and practice of curriculum, (c) theory and practice of instruction.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student is able to: • Understand and use the basic terminology of school pedagogy. • Apply the basic terminology of school pedagogy to describe, analyze, interpret and evaluate the school as an institution and organization. • Characterize the selected quality criteria of teaching and give reasons for their importance for the teacher´s daily routine on the basis of practical examples. • Plan and evaluate the teaching unit on the basis of self-reflection (reasoning, relevance of the subject, objectives, contents, methods, evaluation and alteration). • Propose a framework preparation for instruction of a chosen topic or thematic unit of study and apply it in practice, preparation of teaching chosen topic; • Give examples of correctly and incorrectly formulated learning objectives by using the portfolio. • Suggest possible ways how to identify and influence pupils' concepts of learning. • Formulate teaching tasks of different cognitive levels. Considering the objective of instruction they provide an adequate way of pupil assessment; • Give reasons for using specific teaching methods during their teaching practice, review those methods critically and suggest other possibile methods which can be used in the same or similar teaching context.
Syllabus
  • Lectures: 1. Introduction into the study of school pedagogy. 2. Educational and curricular policy, curriculum documents. 3. Teaching methods and forms. 4. Educational and school system, school as institution and organisation: school and its functions, school as a learning environment. 5. Reasons for establishing school, the role of school in society. 6. School and its history. School for future: future for school 7. Pedagogický výzkum jako pomocník učitele. 8. Textbooks and educational media. 9. Instruction: teaching and learning, actors and processes of instruction. 10. Curriculum: aims and contents školního vzdělávání and jejich transformation kurikulární procesy. 11. Evaluation of pupils' education process and results - types and functions of evaluation. 12. Evaluation of pupils' results - forms of evaluation, basic demands on evaluation. 13. Quality of schools and management of pedagogical processes. 14. Trends in education in the European Union and the world. School legislation valid in the Czech Republic: School laws, the law about pedagogical employees. 15. Organizational learning (collegial support, teachers’ cooperation, cooperation on more levels, etc.). Seminars: 1. – 2. Didactic transformation of content (ontodidactic, psychodidactic, cognitive). The work of a teacher with a curriculum. 3.-4. Preparing a teacher to teach. 5.-6. Quality of teaching and its characteristics / components. 7,-8.. Teaching as didactic transformation / cycle of pedagogical thinking and behaviour. Participants and processes of teaching. 9.-10. Implementation of teaching¨ 11. – 12. Organizational forms of teaching. Differentiation of teaching (content, time, methodical…) 13.-15. Evaluation of pupils
Literature
    required literature
  • KRATOCHVÍLOVÁ, Jana. Systém hodnocení a sebehodnocení žáků, Zkušenosti z České republiky i Evropských škol (System of the pupils evaluation and self-evaluation, Experiences from the Czech Republic and the European Schools). 1st ed. Brno: MSD, 2011, 153 pp. ISBN 978-80-7392-169-9. info
  • PASCH, Marvin, Trevor G. GARDNER, Georgea M. LANGER, Alane STARK and Christella MOODY. Od vzdělávacího programu k vyučovací hodině. Translated by Milan Koldinský. Vydání druhé. Praha: Portál, 2005, 416 stran. ISBN 8073670542. info
    recommended literature
  • JANÍK, Tomáš, Josef MAŇÁK and Petr KNECHT. Cíle a obsahy školního vzdělávání a metodologie jejich utváření (Aims and contents of schooling and its designing). 1st ed. Brno: Paido, 2009, 173 pp. Pedagogický výzkum v teorii a praxi. ISBN 978-80-7315-194-2. info
  • SKALKOVÁ, Jarmila. Obecná didaktika. 2., rozš. a aktualiz. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2007, 322 s. ISBN 9788024718217. URL info
  • MAŇÁK, Josef and Vlastimil ŠVEC. Výukové metody. Brno: Paido, 2003, 219 stran. ISBN 8073150395. info
Teaching methods
Teaching Methods in the Seminar Teaching activities and teaching methods used in seminars: group discussion, problem learning, independent study of professional literature, elaboration and presentation of theses from reading professional literature, fulfilment of ongoing tasks. Learning outcomes: Students analyse and critically reflect and use professional texts as a support for their own professional argumentation, they systematize and use basic professional terminology with understanding using model examples. lized sources and electronic distance-learning materials
Assessment methods
Course completion: After receiving and successfully completing the tasks, the student will be awarded a credit. On the day of the exam, the student first takes the written test. Upon passing the test, the student continues with an oral examination on the same day. If the test is graded with an F, the student is required to apply for a resit.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30.
The course is also listed under the following terms autumn 2019, autumn 2020, autumn 2021, autumn 2022.
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