Pre-requisite: 80260 practicum
This unit, the first of three dealing with pedagogics, the study of teaching, seeks to assist student teachers to begin to develop sound and personally meaningful theoretical bases for guiding their work as teachers in classrooms. Areas of study will include: teachers' knowledge of students, sources and means of acquiring such knowledge, and its significance in planning and teaching; instructional planning and the design of learning experiences and environment; and communication in the classroom. There will be a particular emphasis on the development of basic skills in planning, communicating and managing.