Course detail

Pedagogy for Engineers

FAST-TY52Acad. year: 2012/2013

Pedagogy for engineers, common didactics, specialised didactics and didactics of specialised subjects, curriculum, key kompetences, frame educational programme, interaction and communication in educational reality, teaching methods, activating teaching methods, teaching purposes, didactic principles, organization forms of teaching process, didactic aids, teacher's preparation for teaching, pedagogic diagnosis, didactic tests, analysis and creating of textbooks, research in educational sciences, management in schools.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

RNDr. Ing. Jaroslav Lindr, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Social Sciences (SPV)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Orientation in theoretic pedagogic and didactic terminology, processes and paradigms used for enginners who want to be in educational resort. This course meets with foundation of teacher´s profession. It is suitable for students who think about teacher´s job in future or who want to teach in specialised school externally. Knowledge of didactic principles in education of specialised subjects. Theoretic view to realisation of teaching process in specialised technical subjects at the secondary schools.

Prerequisites

Common orientaition in pedagogy and didactics for enginneers, communication ability in education reality and in public places, managing of the fever, recognising of some teaching methods from teachers, description of main didactic principles, knowledge of basic organizational forms of teaching, ability to preparing for public performance, ability to create elementar research in education reality and their working, trying to meet with education reality.

Co-requisites

Knowledge of specialised sciences, experience in study, specifics and peculiarities in specialised subjects, knowledge of civil engineering theory and praxis, practical teaching, experiments and training, covering of experiment results, experience with school assessment, presentations and theoretical tests, study literature, teaching methods in specialised subjects, didactic aids, modern didactic technology, analysis of education, ability to evaluate educational process of other teachers.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations. Explanation is passed by word-teaching method in the form of lectures accompanied by the rich presentation material. Lectures and other materials beyond the recited topics student can find in LMS Moodle. Basic theoretical topics are spread of voluntary topics according to student's interest; every student prepares either one's presentation from pedagogy.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Students show their orientation in theoretical and applied pedagogy in the test from theoretical part. They also prepare a presentation of chosen topic from the area of general or applied pedagogy. In practices students do pedagogical training as an imitation of secondary school's teaching which is followed by analysis of mistakes. Summary evaluation of students consists of the testing of student's theoretical knowledge (50%), presentation (30%) and managing of teacher training (20%).

Course curriculum

1. Introduction to pedagogy for engineers and its relation to specialised didactics. Connections with the other sciences.
2. General and special didactics, didactics of specialised subjects. History of pedagogy.
3. The curriculum and its importance for pedagogy. The modern curriculum and its implementation in teaching praxis.
4. The teaching process and its fundamental nature. Didactic principles and rules. Selection and structuring of subject-matter.
5. Lesson types and structures. Phases of teaching. Types of teaching.
6. Teaching methods - summary and classification. Activising teaching methods.
7. Didactic aids. Organizational forms of teaching.
8. The education aims. The preparation of a teacher for teaching. Administration in the education system.
9. Pedagogical diagnostics, pedagogical evaluation and the creation of didatic tests.
10. Literature with a didactic function. Educational texts, their analysis, creation rating and optimisation.
11. The personality of an educator and the theory of teaching profession. Professiogram of a teacher of specialised subjects.
12. Anthropogenic members of education. Traditional and alternative systems of teaching.
13. Specifics and peculiarities of the teaching process in specialised subjects.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Orientation in theoretic pedagogic and didactic terminology, processes and paradigms used for enginners who want to be in educational resort. This course meets with foundation of teacher´s profession. It is suitable for students who think about teacher´s job in future or who want to teach in specialised school externally.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

DRAHOVZAL, Josef, KILIÁN, Oldřich a Rudolf KOHOUTEK. Didaktika odborných předmětů. Brno: CERM, 1997. (CS)
LINDR, Jaroslav: Inženýrská pedagogika. M01 Pedagogika, M02 Didaktika, M03 Moderní pedagogika. Brno: FAST, 2007.
MAŇÁK, Josef. Nárys didaktiky. Brno: PdF (skripta), 1997. (CS)
SKALKOVÁ, J.: Obecná didaktika. Praha: ISV, 1999. (CS)

Recommended reading

GALTON, M. (ed.): Curriculum Change. Leicester University Press, 1980.
CHRÁSKA, M.: Didaktické testy: příručka pro učitele a studenty učitelství. Brno: Paido, 1999.
CHRÁSKA, M.: Statistika pro pedagogy. Olomouc: UP (skriptum), 1990.
OURODA, S.: Oborová didaktika. Brno: MZLU, 2001.
PELIKÁN, J.: Výchova jako teoretický problém. Ostrava: Amosium, 1995.
PRŮCHA, Jan: Moderní pedagogika. Praha: Portál, 2009. ISBN 978-80-7367-503-5.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-P-C-A Master's

    branch ARS , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch ARS , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
    branch ARS , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

RNDr. Ing. Jaroslav Lindr, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to pedagogy for engineers and its relation to specialised didactics. Connections with the other sciences.
2. General and special didactics, didactics of specialised subjects. History of pedagogy.
3. The curriculum and its importance for pedagogy. The modern curriculum and its implementation in teaching praxis.
4. The teaching process and its fundamental nature. Didactic principles and rules. Selection and structuring of subject-matter.
5. Lessons. Phases of teaching. Types of teaching. Didactic models.
6. Teaching methods - summary and classification. Activising teaching methods.
7. Didactic aids. Organizational forms of teaching. Overview and classificatiion. Description of chosen forms and aids. Modern didactic technology.
8. The preparation of a teacher for teaching. Administration in the education system. School management.
9. Pedagogical diagnostics, pedagogical evaluation and the creation of didatic tests. Didactic test, creation and tasks.
10. Literature with a didactic function. Educational texts, their analysis, creation rating and optimisation.
11. The personality of an educator. The theory of teaching profession. Professiogram of a teacher of specialised subjects.
12. Anthropogenic members of education. Traditional and alternative systems of teaching.
13. Specifics of educational process in specialised subjects.

Exercise

13 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

RNDr. Ing. Jaroslav Lindr, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Importance of general and applied pedagogy in teaching. Types of pedagogy.
2. Teaching phases, theoretical system and application in teacher training.
3. Prepare to teacher training, structure of lesson, improving of key-kompetences, timing.
4. Active method in teaching, procreative and anticreative factors in teaching.
5. Organisational forms of teaching, didactic aids suitable to teaching.
6. Individual pedagogic-didactics teacher training, imitation of secondary school teaching, analysis of mistakes and problems.
7. Individual pedagogic-didactics teacher training, imitation of secondary school teaching, analysis of mistakes and problems.
8. Individual pedagogic-didactics teacher training, imitation of secondary school teaching, analysis of mistakes and problems.
9. Individual pedagogic-didactics teacher training, imitation of secondary school teaching, analysis of mistakes and problems.
10. Pedagogy in specialised subjects. Specific and differences in specialised technical subjects teaching.
11. The teacher of specialised subjects. Specialised and didactic tasks to teacher. Professiogram.
12. Practical teaching methods, introduction to experiment demonstration in front of students.
13. Practical teaching methods, introduction to experiment demonstration in front of students.