Perspectives on Teaching and Teaching Competence

Perspectives on Teaching and Teaching Competence

1. What is teaching?

   • Different methods used by teachers for student learning
   • Happens between at least two subjects
   • Is interactive

2. Teacher knowledge and competence

   • To know what you are doing and why?
   • Different forms of knowledge in action
   • Individual’s ability to act
   • Skills, knowledge, and understanding

3. Teaching analysis and teacher competencies

   • Interrelationship of teacherstudent-content
   • Develop different skills and attitudes of students
   • Connects learning to competence
   • Teaching and learning are different activities

4. Social competence

   • Cultural knowledge and relationships
   • Social aspects in teaching
   • Knowledge about students
   • Reflect pedagogical leadership

5. Content competence

   • Teacher recognizes how different qualities in content are structured and developed
   • Relevant subject knowledge
   • Transform knowledge to student learning

6. Didactic competence

   • Knowledge about teaching
   • Practical skills or performance in teaching

7. Dimensions of teaching and didactic analysis

   • Purpose of learning something
   • Objectives for learning and students
   • How is content selected and treated
   • What is to be studied

8. Objectives for learning

   • “How to get” knowledge

9. Aspects of the learner and content

   • Cognitive
   • Social
   • Emotional
   • Ethic
   • Physical
   • Creative
   • Esthetic

10. Processing content in teaching

    • Didactic transformation

11. Methods in teaching

    • Instructional or mediating
    • Interactive
    • Exploring
    • Creative or design