Designing Meaningful Instruction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birch P. Browning
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Relevant Feedback ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Learning Plan ◽  
Instructional Context

The chapter outlines and discusses many steps in instructional design as well as assessing its effectiveness. The role of knowledge of subject matter, pedagogy, how students learn, and instructional context is stressed. The six challenging questions relating to pedagogical content knowledge are presented and discussed. Designing instruction is a temporally backward process, in that the first step is to determine the desired outcomes. The reader is taken through the three major stages of planning instruction: defining outcomes, planning assessment, and designing the learning plan. The importance of timely and relevant feedback is stressed. Teacher self-assessment is key as well. The author states that the height of professionalism is the consistent willingness to evolve for the students’ benefit.The chapter concludes with a detailed sample lesson project.

“Virtual Inquiry” in the Science Classroom

2011 ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Eva Erdosne Toth
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Design ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
Inquiry Teaching ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Classroom Inquiry

The article examines prior research on students’ difficulties with inquiry learning and outlines research-based decisions for the consideration of software-based scaffolds for inquiry teaching and learning. The objective is to detail research findings in a way that assists teachers in their development of pedagogical content knowledge as relevant to the selection and use of technological tools for classroom inquiry in the high school biology or college introductory biology classrooms. Employing a worked-out-example in the popular domain of DNA science, the article illustrates the research-based integration of instructional design decisions coordinated with the features of selected software tools. The coordination of software-design with instructional design has the potential of significantly enhancing students’ learning while also supporting the development of teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge.

scholarly journals What Makes A Good Teacher? Needs and Necessities-A Survey of Recent Literature on Teacher’s Subject Matter Knowledge, Pedagogical Knowledge, and Pedagogical Content Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amirreza Karami
Keyword(s):  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Subject Matter Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Knowledge ◽  
Pedagogical Content

<p>This paper provides an overview of some entailed issues in efficacious teaching. First section focuses upon teacher’s subject matter knowledge and the way it affects teaching. The results of the review in this part suggest the efficacy of the teacher’s high subject matter knowledge on significant improvement in teaching and learning process. Second part reviews pedagogical knowledge and its importance on effective teaching. The significance of pedagogical knowledge to the teaching and learning process has been reaffirmed, too and the last part concentrates on pedagogical content knowledge. The findings of the past research discover its vital role in language teaching and learning. <span style="font-size: 10px;">This review serves to highlight paramount findings from the recent investigations that have implications for the development of teacher education, teaching and learning enhancement.</span></p>

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