Didactics 1 *

There are no prerequisites.

Subject and tasks of didactics; relationship between general and special didactics.
Education factors: teacher – student – subject matter; roles of teacher and student in modern school; traditional and communication - constructivist teaching models.
Structure of the educational process: material and technical, cognitive and psychological aspects of teaching.
Constituent parts of education: knowledge, competences – skills; syllabus and curriculum, teaching contents.
Teaching methods and teaching forms, teaching strategies.
Articulation of the educational process (preparing pupils for the education, presenting new teaching contents, training, repetition, checking, assessing).
Planning educational process; operative formulation of educational objectives, Bloom's taxonomy of educational goals.
Checking and assessing knowledge; types and ways of checking, advantages and weaknesses of particular checking methods; rules on checking and assessing knowledge.
Didactic principles and their realization.
Learning individualization and differentiation.
Learning differences between pupils; work with pupils who have learning disorders, detection of gifted pupils and work with such pupils.
Teacher’s cooperation with parents; the role and work of a class teacher.
Planning teacher’s work.
Modern informational and communicational technology in classes.

Blažič, M., Ivanuš Grmek, M., Kramar, M., Strmčnik, F. (2003). Didaktika. Visokošolski učbenik. Novo mesto: Visokošolsko središče Novo mesto, Inštitut za raziskovalno in razvojno delo.
Izbrana poglavja iz didaktike. (1991). Novo mesto: Pedagoška obzorja.
Strmčnik, F. (2001): Didaktika. Osrednje teoretične teme. Ljubljana: Znanstveni inštitut Filozofske fakultete.
Strmčnik, F. (2010). Problemski pouk v teoriji in praksi. Novo mesto: Visokošolsko središče Novo mesto, Inštitut za raziskovalno in razvojno delo.
Valenčič Zuljan, M. in Kalin, J. (2020). Učne metode in razvoj učiteljeve metodične kompetence. Ljubljana: Pedagoška fakulteta.

Students:
Get familiar with connection and dependence between fundamental education factors and their impact on school achievement,
Form theoretical foundation for reasonable choice and effective use of forms, methods and means of teaching;
Develop their abilities of analyzing and solving didactic problems; master basic principles and procedures for planning, carrying out and evaluating their teaching process;
Develop their interest and competences to introduce innovation in classes and to creatively search for efficient ways to achieve educational objectives;
Become familiar with fundamental didactic characteristics of our elementary and secondary school reform;
Get an insight into the teacher’s role in classes and form a positive attitude to teaching profession, thus laying foundation of their own professional development;
Form interest and critical attitude towards didactic literature.

Students:
Get familiar with connection and dependence between fundamental education factors and their impact on school achievement,
Form theoretical foundation for reasonable choice and effective use of forms, methods and means of teaching;
Develop their abilities of analyzing and solving didactic problems; master basic principles and procedures for planning, carrying out and evaluating their teaching process;
Develop their interest and competences to introduce innovation in classes and to creatively search for efficient ways to achieve educational objectives;
Become familiar with fundamental didactic characteristics of our elementary and secondary school reform;
Get an insight into the teacher’s role in classes and form a positive attitude to teaching profession, thus laying foundation of their own professional development;
Form interest and critical attitude towards didactic literature.

The subject is carried out in the form of lectures and tutorial.
Lectures include various forms of active experience-based learning, with students as contributors in co-designers of the educational process.
In the tutorial, students connect theory with practical cases and acquire skills of communication, delivering in front of a group, discussing, analyzing situations; they develop planning skills, learn to select suitable forms of work to achieve the set objectives, test various educational methods and forms.
Within the frame of this subject, they prepare a seminar paper, analyzing in detail one of didactic problems.

Before accessing the exam, students shall prepare a seminar paper and a reflection on a tutorial in which they actively participated Students shall pass a written exam
grading: 5 (fail), 6-10 (pass) (according to the Statute of UL)

Janica Kalin:
VALENČIČ ZULJAN, Milena, KALIN, Jana. Učne metode in razvoj učiteljeve metodične kompetence. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Pedagoška fakulteta, 2020. 232 str., ilustr. ISBN 978-961-253-262-8. [COBISS-SI-ID 22908419]
KALIN, Jana. "Nadarjenost uspeva le tam, kjer je pričakovana, zaželena in kjer je deležna veliko pedagoške skrbi in podpore": pomen odkrivanja in dela z nadarjenimi učenci. Sodobna pedagogika. dec. 2021, letn. 72 = 138, št. 4, str. 70-89. ISSN 0038-0474. [COBISS-SI-ID 95268355]
KALIN, Jana. Pomembnost dela razrednika in svetovalnega delavca v oddelčni skupnosti. V: GREGORČIČ MRVAR, Petra (ur.), KALIN, Jana (ur.). Sodobni pogledi in izzivi v vzgojno-izobraževalnem in svetovalnem delu: prispevki ob jubileju Metoda Resmana. 1. izd. V Ljubljani: Založba Univerze, 2022. Str. 67-88. Razprave FF. ISBN 978-961-7128-28-4, ISBN 978-961-7128-27-7. ISSN 2335-3333. [COBISS-SI-ID 105563907]
ŠTEH, Barbara, MURŠAK, Janko, MAŽGON, Jasna, KALIN, Jana, GREGORČIČ MRVAR, Petra. School-home-community: innevitable connections. Berlin: Peter Lang, 2018. 195 str., ilustr. Erziehung in Wissenschaft und Praxis, Bd. 12. ISBN 978-3-631-75928-8, ISBN 978-3-631-77287-4. [COBISS-SI-ID 68521058]
ERMENC, Klara S., KALIN, Jana, MAŽGON, Jasna. How to run an empty school : the experience of Slovenian school heads during the COVID-19 pandemic. SAGE open. July-Sep. 2021, vol. 11, issue 3, str. 1-12, ilustr. ISSN 2158-2440. [COBISS-SI-ID 70994435]