ZS1BP_PPZS Practice Teaching in Primary School

Faculty of Education
Spring 2015
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Jiří Havel, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Jiří Havel, Ph.D.
Department of Primary Education – Faculty of Education
Supplier department: Department of Primary Education – Faculty of Education
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to provide foreign students with basic knowledge of Czech schools. Students can gain experience from lessons in all subjects of the curriculum of primary education. They systematically analyse lessons which they observe. During teaching practice they also prepare, implement and reflect on their own teaching with pupils (usually aimed at familiarization with facts about the country they come from). Sub-objectives formulated in the outcomes of students: By the end of the course the student will: • Describe the Czech educational system; • have an overview of the curriculum of basic education, • implement and reflect on their own teaching with students, • reflect on the process of teaching in written form, • perform assigned tasks.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to the educational system in the Czech Republic. 2. Learning about the national and school curriculum for basic education. 3. Introduction to life in the classroom, teachers, schools (rules, norms, customs, rituals). 4. Introduction to basic educational documentation (class records, class register, data sheets, school reports, etc.). 5. Communication between teacher and student (how teacher communicates verbally and non-verbally, how to use rewards and punishments to resolve conflicts, etc..). 6. Creating a professional student portfolio: knowledge, discoveries, records of sitting in on classes, observations from teaching practice and other documentation. 7. Written comparison of Czech primary schools with the same level of education in the country of the student.
Literature
  • FILOVÁ, Hana. Příručka pro fakultní cvičné učitele (Handbook for Faculty Training Teachers). Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2013, p. 3-45, 68-92, 68 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-6619-9. info
Teaching methods
Linking theoretical and practical training – teaching observations, analyses, work as a teaching assistant, own teaching.
Assessment methods
The criteria for granting the credit: a) 80% attendance, b) completion of assigned tasks: • Submission of a student portfolio (records from sitting in on classes, records of interviews and observations of the student in the school environment, preparation of the student for their own teaching, class and school records ...) c) presentation of a comparison of Czech primary schools and schools in the student’s home country
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Spring 2016, Autumn 2016, Spring 2017, Autumn 2017, Spring 2018, Autumn 2018, Spring 2019.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2015, recent)
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