Interactive Teaching

Course objectives: Understanding basic notions and theories relevant for designing contemporary teaching curricula; enabling students to plan, carry out and evaluate interactive teaching

Course description: Theoretical instruction Designing contemporary teaching - key aspects: knowledge about learning, the demands of modern education and the functions of teaching, pedagogical responses to differences and school failure. Planning and carrying out interactive teaching: Interactive teaching principles (learners` activity, experience-based learning/teaching, the importance of motivation and the atmosphere of mutual respect, individualization and differentiation in teaching, learning through cooperation). The components of teaching - planning, carrying out, monitoring and supporting - and their interconnectedness). Factors in planning teaching (learners, objectives, content, learning outcomes, social context). Relationship between outcomes, content and teaching methods. Teaching strategies, methods, techniques and organization as teaching/learning and communication frameworks. Criteria for the choice of teaching methods and techniques. Types of activities: warm-up, introductory, main, wrap-up. Articulation of class activities: from evocation to reflection. Challenges in planning and carrying out interactive teaching practice. The role of the teacher in interactive teaching: teacher as a planner, facilitator and mediator...

Learning Outcomes: Students should be able to: • explain theories and embrace interactive teaching as a response to the demands of modern education • plan and use methods and techniques of interactive teaching • explain the basics, principles and effects of cooperative learning • plan group work and encourage and facilitate group interaction • work in teams and undertake responsibility for the teaching process

Literature/Reading:

• Brofi,Dž., Nastava, Pedagoško društvo Srbije, 2004;
• Jensen,E., Super-nastava, Educa, Zagreb, 2003; Kyriacou, Temeljna nastavna umijeća, Educa, Zagreb, 2001;
• Roeders, P., Interaktivna nastava, IPA, Beograd, 2003;
• Pavlović-Breneselović, D., Pavlovski,T., Interaktivna obuka, IPA, Beograd, 2000;
• Terhart,E., Metode poučavanja i učenja, Educa, Zagreb, 2001;
• Priručni nastavni materijal