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Understanding Pedagogy in Teaching

Pedagogy refers to the method and practice of teaching. It encompasses teaching styles, theories, and feedback/assessment approaches. When planning lessons, teachers consider how to effectively deliver curriculum content based on their preferences, experience, and teaching context. Having a well-thought-out pedagogy can improve teaching quality and help students achieve deeper learning by gaining a stronger understanding of fundamental material. There are several pedagogical approaches like integrated learning, inquiry-based learning, experiential learning, cooperative learning, and peer teaching.

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Understanding Pedagogy in Teaching

Pedagogy refers to the method and practice of teaching. It encompasses teaching styles, theories, and feedback/assessment approaches. When planning lessons, teachers consider how to effectively deliver curriculum content based on their preferences, experience, and teaching context. Having a well-thought-out pedagogy can improve teaching quality and help students achieve deeper learning by gaining a stronger understanding of fundamental material. There are several pedagogical approaches like integrated learning, inquiry-based learning, experiential learning, cooperative learning, and peer teaching.

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What is Pedagogy?
Pedagogy is defined simply as the method, and practice, or teaching. It compasses:
 Teaching styles
 Teaching theory
 Feedback and assessment
When people talk about the pedagogy of teaching, they will be referring to the way teachers
deliver the content of the curriculum to a class.

When a teacher plans a lesson, they will consider different ways to deliver the content. That
decisions will be made based on their own teaching preference, their experience, and the context
that they teach in.

Why is pedagogy important?


Having a well thought-out pedagogy can improve the quality of your teaching and the way
students learn, helping them gain a deeper grasp of fundamental material. Being mindful of the
way you teach can help you better understand how help students to achieve deeper learning.

What are the pedagogical approaches?

•Integrated Learning
Learning brings together content and skills from more than one subject area.
 Satisfactory content from a number of different subject areas is readily identifiable
 Good: resources is appropriate for use in more than one subject area
 Vet Good: the lines between subjects are blurred

•Inquiry Learning
Learning is directed by question, problems, or challenges that students work to address.

 Satisfactory: Students are provided with questions/ problems to solve and some direction on
how to arrive at solutions
 Good: students,assisted by teacher clarify the question(s) to ask and the process to follow to
arrive at solutions. Sometimes referred to as Guided Inquiry
 Very Good: students generate the questions and assume much of the responsibility for how
to solve them. Sometimes referred to as self-directed learning.

Experiential Learning
Authentic learning experiences are provided
 Satisfactory: learning is made concrete. Working with real objects, using real sources of
information.
 Good: learning takes place in a real-world context. Simulation, mentorship
 Very Good: learning provides experience beyond the classroom. Addressing real world issues
and problems

Co-operative Learning
Group and cooperative learning strategies are a priority.
 Satisfactory: students work in groups;
 Good: cooperative learning skills are explicitly taught , practiced
 Very Good: cooperative learning skills are explicitly taught , practiced and assessed

Peer Teaching
Provides opportunities for student to actively present their knowledge and skills to peers and/ or
act as teacher and mentors
 Satisfactory: incidental teaching that arises from cooperative learning, presentation, etc;
 Good or Very Good; an opportunity is intentionally created to empower students to teach
others students/community members. The audience is somehow reliant on the students
teaching (students are not simply presenting)

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