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TEACHERS AS COURSE DEVELOPERS

General Theory: abstraction that attempts to unite diverse and complex phenomena into a single principle or system of principles so as to make sense of the phenomena.

Personal theory: subjetive undesrtanding of one`s practice or "sense of plausibility" that provides coherence and direction for the teacher.

Teacher interpret new content through their existing understandings and modify from:

The inside out through individual practice and reflection.

The outside in through contact with the experiences and theories of others.

Course, curriculum and syllabus

Curriculum: philosophy purposes, design and implementation of a whole program.

Syllabus: the specification and ordering of the content of a course.

Course: integrated series of teaching-learning experiences, whose ultimate aim is to lead the learners to a particular state of knowledge.

Syllabus design < course < curriculum

Course development includes planning a course, teaching it, modifying the plan, both while the course is in progress and after the course is over.

Problematizing

Depends on the teacher`s percepcitions of the contenxt, out of which arise problems to be solved. The teacher defines the problem.

Problem solving

Assumes that the problems are givens that the teacher needs to address.

It requires that the teacher recognize the value of her own experience.