Assignment Two (Denis)

Assignment Two: Pedagogic Framework paper: Due: June 11. Course Weighting 25%. (To be negotiated)

This assignment provides you with the opportunity to develop a pedagogic framework for a course you teach or will teach. The assignment stops short from developing a course syllabus. (That is a technical exercise which is of less interest here.) This assignment gives you the opportunity to focus on the theoretic “front end planning” that informs what might go into such a course syllabus.

Your assignment should be based on the paper by Goodyear et al available online in several variants including www.eurodl.org/materials/contrib/1999/goodyear and
http://www.cerlim.ac.uk/edner/dissem/dc1.doc
If this site does not open, google: goodyear edner pedagogical frameworks.

This assignment is to produce a paper with the folowing components:

1. Identify a course which you teach or a new course or unit or module which you plan to teach. Provide an initial course description.
2. Explicate a pedagogical framework for your course (or unit or module), including elements of philosophy, high level pedagogy, pedagogical strategy and pedagogical tactics.
3. Explicate the educational setting for your course, including identification of learning tasks, learning environment, and learning activity.
4. Suggest a (short) list of learning outcomes to be derived from #2 and #3 above.
5. Final discussion and reflection: Provide a critical commentary which summarizes the major points of the model and analyzes what happened in light of your example. Alternatively, examine how the above analysis differs from the traditional “design a course syllabus” task. (For more details, see Appendix II in The Penn State Teacher II available at the following address: www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/pdf/PennStateTeacherII.pdf )

The assessment of this assignment will be based on:

1. Selection of topic.
2. Thoroughness of analysis.
3. Synthesis of information towards a statement of a “pedagogic framework”.