METHODOLOGY AND GENERAL DIDACTICS

Knowledge and understanding: Know and analyze critically the didactic design models, teaching methods and techniques and evaluation activities.

Applying knowledge and understanding: Apply the methodological-didactic knowledge acquired with the study and personal experience, in school educational situations, to face and solve organizational, design, methodological and evaluative questions in the teaching of their subjects.

Making judgements: Collect, select, analyze and interpret data, information and knowledge to design educational paths; to argue organizational, design, methodological and evaluative choices; to detect the educational, ethical and social implications connected to the didactic action.

Communication skills: Being able to communicate information, ideas, concepts, define methodological problems and propose resolving strategies by discussing and arguing
with students, teachers, managers and decision makers of training policies.

Learning skills: Promote learning transfer from and through training practices, working and interacting in the complexity of teaching contexts.

Since course participants come from various university studies and may or may not have had teaching experience, conditions and access requirements can not be established.

PART I - FUNDAMENTALS: 1. The fundamentals of secondary school teaching - 2. The curriculum - 3. Curriculum design.

PART II - METHODOLOGY: 4. The method - 5. Active techniques. Teach and learn by skills - 6. Authentic tasks. Training of skills in a situation.

PART III - EVALUATION: 7. The basics of the evaluation - 8. Evaluation activities (observation, assessment, control, verification, evaluation, meta-evaluation) - 9. Evaluation and certification of competences.

F. Tessaro, Metodologia e didattica dell'insegnamento secondario, (professor texts and online materials)

- Online tests with closed and open answers.

- Planning of a teaching / learning activity by skills (to be prepared and sent before the exam)

Classroom lectures and online laboratory teaching with the support of the tutor, also using the Flipped Classroom technique.

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