Course info

GODFREY OKOYE UNIVERSITY

ENUGU, NIGERIA

Website: www.gouni.edu.ng

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS

GOUNI-EDU 202: Innovative Pedagogical Techniques in Peer and Micro-teaching in Enugu Socio-cultural Environment (Credit Unit=2, Status=Core, LH=16, PH=20)

Senate-Approved Relevance

Proper preparation of professional teachers with adequate and useful knowledge, skills methods, values and initiative is important in Enugu socio-cultural environment.  Godfrey Okoye University, is found in this socio-cultural milieu. This course is meant to help student teachers acquire the right method, techniques and confidence which will enable them teach their students effectively. This is in line with the epistemic dialogue that Godfrey Okoye University is anchored on. Therefore, student teachers who acquire skills, confidence and knowledge in this course can easily impact knowledge to secondary school students using various and relevant methods in teaching any topic and can easily give extra classes (that is lesson teacher). This is also in line with the entrepreneurial mindset of Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu and Nigeria’s Sustainable Development Goals on sustainable and inclusive education for all for the year 2063.

Poor performance of students in almost all standardized examinations in both primary and secondary schools call for the need for the development of the course. Recently there is an outcry from the public about this falling standard of education and it is believed that if student teachers acquire confidence and effective methods of teaching it will improve their efficiency in imparting knowledge. This creates the need for proper attention on the teaching methods acquired by student teachers.

This course is designed to enable the student teachers acquire the required confidence in teaching methods and techniques to help learners develop their educational potentials and desired learning outcomes. It will give the student teachers the opportunity to effectively teach their students in school and offer extra classes to the community. The course will expose the student teachers to peer teaching and self-appraisal that will lead them to become effective professional teachers.

Objectives.

The objectives of this course are to:

Justify the relationship between innovative pedagogy, peer teaching and microteaching.

Discuss the concept of peer teaching.

Explain the concept of micro-teaching

Describe the process of students teaching in a micro-teaching laboratory

Outline the role of instructional methods and instructional materials in micro-teaching

Identify how to write a lesson plan/note

Recognize the different skills in micro-teaching

Analyze supervisory skills and their usefulness in teaching and learning.

Draw a micro-teaching practicum

Apply pedagogy of peer and micro-teaching in extra classes.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, the student should be able to:

1.Define innovative pedagogy

2.Give the meaning of peer teaching

3.Explain the concept of micro-teaching

4.Discuss micro-teaching and its relevance to teacher education

5.Describe ten importance of peer teaching and micro-teaching.

6.Select five teaching skills involved in teaching objectives

7.Draw out micro-teaching practicum

8.Describe five teaching methods

9.Discuss the preparation of a lesson plan

10.Describe micro-teaching supervisory skills

11.Explain professionalism in relation to extra classes.

Course Contents

Definition of innovative pedagogy. Concept of learning. Concept of teaching. Meaning of peer teaching. Explanation of the concept of micro-teaching. Micro-teaching procedure. Explanation of micro-teaching and its relevance to teacher education. Importance of micro-teaching to student teacher education. Teaching skills involved in teaching objectives. Teaching methods relevant to teachers’ education. Instructional material lesson plan/lesson note. Classroom control and management. Offense and punishment.  Micro-teaching supervisory skills. Micro-teaching practicum-laboratory. Activities and teaching as a profession in Nigeria. 

Minimum Academic Standards.

Micro-teaching Laboratory

Video tape

Projectors

Computers (1:1 student)

Other NUC-MAS requirement facilities

Lecturers:

Agusiobo Hilda Chineze Dr. Mrs

Nnamdi N.S. Ene Ph.D