METHODOLOGY AND GENERAL DIDACTICS

Academic year
2021/2022 Syllabus of previous years
Official course title
METODOLOGIA E DIDATTICA GENERALE
Course code
PFA4D1 (AF:366154 AR:194418)
Modality
Blended (on campus and online classes)
ECTS credits
6
Subdivision
Class 1
Degree level
Corso Singolo 24 CFU
Educational sector code
M-PED/03
Period
2nd Semester
Course year
1
Where
VENEZIA
Moodle
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The Course of Methodology and General Didactics is a course of General Didactics (SSD: MPED / 03 and 04), of six credits (university formative credits) which entail a total commitment of 150 hours for the students (30 hours of lessons and 120 hours of study and personal activities).
This course refers to area D of the PF24 training course referred to in Ministerial Decree 10 August 2017, point d) Didactic methodologies and technologies.
(Declined according to Dublin descriptors)
- Knowledge and understanding: Understanding and critically analyzing the fundamentals of teaching, curriculum and training design models, teaching methods and techniques, and evaluation activities.
- Knowledge and understanding of applied skills: To apply the methodological-didactic knowledge acquired through study and personal experience, in educational formative situations, to face and solve organizational, design, methodological and evaluative issues in the teaching of one's own study disciplines .
- Autonomy of judgment: Collect, select, analyze and interpret data, information and knowledge to plan educational paths; to argue the organizational, design, methodological and evaluative choices made; to detect the educational, ethical and social implications connected to the didactic action.
- Communication skills: Being able to communicate information, ideas, concepts; defining methodological problems and proposing possible resolutive strategies by discussing and arguing with students, teachers, managers and with decision makers of training policies.
- Ability to learn: Activate innovative learning paths, with research-action methods; act the transfer of learning between the different training practices, operating and interacting in the complexity of the educational didactic contexts.

Educational Goals - (as per Annex A of the Ministerial Decree 10 August 2017) point d) Teaching methods and technologies

• The epistemological and methodological-procedural foundations of teaching.
• The main methodologies of educational and training planning.
• Methodological approaches for teaching.
• Approaches aimed at participatory planning and skills.
• Analysis of the main teaching-learning methods in secondary school.
• Active and cooperative methods.
• Laboratory methods.
• The docimology.
• Analysis of educational techniques in schools.
• Assessment of skills and school performance (evaluation of product, process and system).
The course can only be carried out by those with a qualification that allows them to teach in secondary school, and to students attending master's degree courses.
Given the variety of university studies and the different teaching experiences of course participants, there are no conditions and access requirements.
I - FUNDAMENTALS: 1. The fundamentals of secondary school teaching - 2. The curriculum - 3. The didactic planning.

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

III - EVALUATION: 7. The fundamentals of the evaluation - 8. Evaluation activities (assessment, control, verification, evaluation, metavaluation) - 9. Evaluation of competences.
Contents (as per Annex B of the Ministerial Decree 10 August 2017) point d) General teaching methods and technologies

• The epistemological and methodological-procedural foundations of teaching.
• The main methodologies of educational and training planning.
• Methodological approaches for teaching.
• Approaches aimed at participatory planning and skills.
• Analysis of the main teaching-learning methods in secondary school.
• Active and cooperative methods.
• Laboratory methods.
• The docimology.
F. Tessaro, Methodology and teaching of secondary education, (handouts and materials online)
Further details, also related to the methodology and teaching in their teaching disciplines, will be indicated in the moodle page of the course.
- Check with online tests (items with closed answers).
- Written exam: 3 questions with open answers.
- Project work: Planning of a teaching activity for the development of a competence (to be prepared and sent before the exam). The competence is extrapolated from national indications or ministerial guidelines.
Classroom lectures (and streaming) and online laboratory activities. Case studies, project work and cooperative learning.
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Lessons take place in the classroom (15 hours in 4 meetings, Friday afternoon and / or Saturday morning) and asynchronous online (15 hours at a flat rate distributed in three weekly meetings).
The obligation to attend the course is 50%: since several students are engaged in teaching activities, the obligation to attend only concerns asynchronous online lessons, while attendance at classroom or streaming lessons is optional. Attendance to online lessons is certified by answering tests and questions on project work.
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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development

Definitive programme.
Last update of the programme: 16/02/2022