Assignment 1 fdp
- 2. WHAT IS EDUCATION • Gandhi once said: "Education means all-round drawing out of the best in child and man—body, mind, and spirit." As such, education becomes the basis of personality development in all dimensions—moral, mental, and emotional.
- 3. COMPONENTS OF EDUCATION Six basic elements influence the quality of education. • The teacher and teaching methods. • Educational content. • Learning environment. • School management. • Preconditions for pupils. • Funding and organization.
- 4. EDUCATIONAL CONTENT • The term content knowledge refers to the body of knowledge and information that teachers teach and that students are expected to learn in a given subject or content area, such as Languages, Arts, Mathematics, Science, or Social studies.
- 5. CONTENT KNOWLEDGE IMPORTANT IN TEACHERS • Teachers' understanding of the nature and purpose of the discipline strongly influences their personal pedagogical content knowledge, i.e. what they highlight as important. ... This means that teachers need to have a sense of what the nature of the discipline is, understanding its organizing concepts as well as its tools.
- 6. HOW CAN TEACHERS IMPROVE THEIR CONTENT KNOWLEDGE • Answering practice student questions and anticipating common misconceptions will help teachers apply their expanded content knowledge to their instruction, and making use of lessons that have anticipated responses built in can make this step even
- 7. IS SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE IMPORTANT AS A TEACHER ? • Subject knowledge has a very important role to play because high-quality teaching rests on teachers understanding the subjects they are teaching, knowing the structure and sequencing of concepts, developing factual knowledge essential to each subject and guiding their pupils into the different ways of knowing that ...
- 9. Six Tips to Creating Better Educational Content • Create quality content. While nothing new, a lot of low quality content still exists. ... • Tell a helpful story. ... • Create interactive and engaging content. ... • Don't be afraid to produce thought leadership content. ... • Personalize the content experience. ... • Keep your customers educated.