Innovative Teaching Methods

Relation to curriculum

• General competence course

Language

• English

Description

This course provides a foundation for understanding the relationship between planning, implementing, and assessing student learning in the modern classroom.

This course is based on the assumption that teachers critically consider what to teach, how to teach, and how to assess students. It will equip PhD students with a well-developed and thoughtful intellectual framework that will help them to make sound educational decisions based upon the myriad of factors that influence those decisions.

This course will enable PhD students to construct their own initial framework of ideas, skills, and dispositions that will help them make educational/teaching decisions and empower them to act on those decisions.

Learning outcomes

• Plan clear, coherent, and standards-based technology-driven lessons
• Develop general and specific strategies to address student diversity 
• Teach a lesson consistent with principles of effective teaching and learning 
• Apply principles of digital pedagogy to foster students’ soft and hard skills

Content

• Technology-driven classrooms / Digitisation in teaching, learning assessment and feedback / BYOD – Bring your own device
• Linking curriculum with life (emphasis on skill building, life skills/values and understanding of concepts)
• Differential learning / Differentiated instruction
• Inquiry-based & problem-based learning
• Collaborative learning
• Flipped classroom
• Activity-based learning and learning labs
• Interdisciplinary learning
• Integrative and social responsibility and civic engagement

Assessment

Detailed descriptions of all assignments, accompanying project rubrics, and grading criteria will be available on LMS. 

All assignments are subject to possible instructor modification to meet needs of PhD students or time constraints. 

All assignments (in and out of class) including the Comprehensive Performance Task must be attempted on time in order to earn an “A” in the course.