Teaching Aptitude, net syllabus, paper one notes with important points

Teaching Aptitude

1. Teaching aptitude

2. Syllabus Teaching: Concept, Objectives, Levels of Teaching (Memory, Understanding, and Reflective), Characteristics, Basic Requirements Learners’ Characteristics: Characteristics of Adolescent and Adult Learners (Academic, Social, Emotional and Cognitive), Individual Differences Factors Affecting Teaching Related to: Teacher, Learner, Support Material, Instructional Facilities, Learning Environment, and Institution Methods of Teaching in Institutions of Higher Learning: Teacher- centred vs Learner- centred Methods, Offline vs Online Methods (Swayam, Swayamprabha , MOOCs, etc.) Teaching Support System: Traditional, Modern, and ICT based Evaluation Systems: Elements and Types of Evaluation, Evaluation in Choice-based Credit System in Higher Education, Computer-based Testing, Innovations in Evaluation Systems 2

3. LEVELS OF LEARNING 3 Bloom’s Taxonomy

4. Bloom’s Taxonomy 4

5. LEVELS OF TEACHING

6. NATURE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF TEACHING Simple to complex Known to unknown Seen to unseen Concrete to abstract facts. Particular to general. Psychological to logical Empirical knowledge to rational knowledge

7. LEARNERS’ CHARACTERISTICS Personal characteristics Academic characteristics Social or emotional characteristics Cognitive characteristics Include demographic information of the learners • Age, gender, maturity level, language, socioeconomic status, cultural background, etc. • Learning goals, prior knowledge, and educational level of learners • Based on the relation of a group or of an individual with the group • Based on the relation of a group or of an individual with the group • Group structure, place of the individual within a group, sociability, self-image, mood, etc. • Determine how the learner perceives, remembers, thinks, solves problems, organizes, and represents information in her/his brain • Attention span, memory, mental procedures, and intellectual skills 7

8. INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AMONG LEARNERS Intelligence Aptitude Age Motivation Personality Prior Knowledge Learning style Attitude Environment Health 8

9. TEACHING MODELS 9

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11. METHODS OF TEACHING IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING Lecture method Lecture Demonstration method Heuristic Method Project method Blended Learning Flipped Classrooms Discussion Debate Brain Storming Team Teaching Ubiquitous Learning/ Open Learning PanelDiscussion Personalised System of Instruction Differentiated Teaching Simulation Role playing Game based learning Computer Assisted Learning Tutorials Assignments 11

12. E-LEARNING FACILITIES MOOCs: Massive Open Online Courses SWAYAM: Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds SWAYAM PRABHA Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) ePathshala National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) 12

13. EVALUATION SYSTEM Placement evaluation (also known as pre- evaluation or initial evaluation Formative evaluation Summative evaluation Diagnostic evaluation 13

14. Norm referenced evaluation and criterion referenced evaluation Norm and criterion referenced evaluation are two different ways of evaluating a student’s performance. In norm referenced evaluation, the performance of one student is compared with others, while in criterion referenced evaluation, there are no comparisons and results are stated on the basis of certain criteria. For example, ‘A has scored 98 per cent marks in test’ is the criterion referenced evaluation as there is no comparison of marks of any other student. ‘A has scored highest marks in test in class’ is norm referenced evaluation, as there is comparison of marks scored by A with marks of other students of the class, which turned out to be lesser than A. 14

15. Evaluation in Choice-based Credit System in Higher Education In the Choice-based Credit System (CBCS), students can opt for subjects from the available choices. Students have to complete the required credits in order to obtain the course certificate. Credit points and grade points are awarded to students and on the basis of these, the semester grade point average (SGPA) is calculated. The cumulative grade point average (CGPA) is calculated on the basis of performance in all the semesters 15

16. Techniques of Evaluation 16 Computer-based evaluation and computer-assisted evaluation

17. Final tips & takeaways 17

18. Thank you Dr. Divya C. Senan Assistant Professor  Department of Education University of Kerala. (M):[phone]   email:  [email protected]