Course Details

1. Apply effective teaching practices and employ their use in several classroom and teaching contexts.
2. Analyze student characteristics and reach decisions for the appropriateness of various teaching approaches.
3. Formulate appropriate teaching objectives for lessons and units in several subjects and have the ability to transform them into specific teaching approaches, activities and eventually outcomes.
4. Incorporate the development of metacognitive skills into their teaching.
5. Implement teaching strategies depending on students’ specific abilities and needs.
6. Reach the appropriate decisions regarding students’ evaluation so that assessment data form the basis of future teaching.

1. Designing effective teaching  and lesson preparation

2. Teaching methods and techniques

3. Differentiation in teaching

4. Principles of effective classroom management

5. Questioning techniques

6. Classroom climate

7. Teaching objectives and goals

8. Development of metacognitive skills

9. Principles of student assessment

• Jackson, R. (2009). Never work harder than your students. ASCD.
• Schmoker, M. (2011). Focus: Elevating the essentials to radically improve student learning. ASCD
• Tomlinson, C. (2004). How to differentiate instruction in mixed ability classrooms. ASCD.

• Borich, G. (2010). Effective teaching methods: Research-based practice (7th Ed.). Allyn & Bacon.
• Evertson, C. & Emmer, E. (2008). Classroom management for elementary teachers (8th Ed.).Allyn & Bacon.
• Good, T. & Brophy, J. (2003). Looking in classrooms (9th Ed.). Pearson Education.

Lectures

Group Discussion on topics raised during lectures

Group mini-assignments