Content (Syllabus outline)

  • Types of pedagogical work
  • Basic methods in pedagogical work
  • Technics in pedagogical work
  • Teaching resources/devices:
    • sources of knowledge (primary, secundary, tertiary)
    • Biology textbooks and workbooks (Slovene and foreign)
    • audio-visual devices
    • ICT in biology class
  • Curricullum:
    • curricullum for high school programs
    • curriculum for biology field from kindergarten to high school
    • changes in curriculum through time (reasons and consequences)
  • Basics planning of pedagogical process:
    • yearly plan
    • daily plan
    • classifications and taxonomies of knowledge (Bloom, Marzano, Wiggins)
    • adapting biology topics to different groups of pupils
  • Teaching:
    • the use of appropriate types and methods of teaching
    • teaching in different situations and different levels of education
  • Evaluation of teaching process:
    • evaluation methods of teaching process and assessment
    • self-evaluation
  • Didactics of laboratory and field work in biology:
    • field work in pedagogical process (organisation, executing, evaluation)
    • laboratory work (role, advantages and disadvantages, organisation, executing, evaluation)
    • Biological experiment (difference between an experiment in research and education, organisation, executing, evaluation)
    • other educational institutions (educational track, museum, Centre for curricular and extracurricular activities, zoo, botanical gardens, arboretum etc.)

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for inclusion in the work:

enrolment in the appropriate academic year, basic didactical knowledge