And now onto weeks 5/6 for the PCK course I'm studying. Within two/three weeks we'll be heading out into schools, so the content for this week is starting to become fairly central. i.e. what is the curriculum and how are you meant to plan teaching/learning around that curriculum....more...
So, only two weeks to catch up on this course....more...
Okay, so now it's onto the second course for the week. The topic for this week is "Learners and Learning". Looks like we're learning about the brain, how it works and the Dimensions of Learning (That this link for DoL is on the institution's website, but with a strange title is interesting. Sure there are some stories behind it)....more...
This is the fourth of these weekly summaries/reflections - perhaps learning log is a better description - but only 1 is complete so far. Hopefully this will be #2. The course is titled Pedagogical Content Knowledge and appears to aim to use Schulman's ideas of PCK to frame the necessary learning about both pedagogy and the content for the pre-service teachers in this course....more...