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Methods of teaching Ukrainian in basic secondary school (with a course paper)

ОК 18

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2023/2024

4 Semester

5

PLO 2. Know patterns of personality development, age characteristics of students, their psychology, and specifics of family relations. PLO 3. Know and understand principles, forms, modern methods, and methodological techniques of teaching a subject in secondary education institutions (the level of basic secondary education). PLO 4. Know and understand the particularities of teaching heterogeneous groups of students, apply differentiation of training, and organize educational processes tailored to the special needs of students. PLO 5. Make use of major professional concepts and appropriate terminology. PLO 7. Apply international and national standards and experience in professional activities. PLO 8. Select and apply modern educational technologies and methods to build student competencies in subjects; reflect on the lesson’s effectiveness. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section "Programme Profile".

Full-time form

Prerequisites and performance requirements To successfully complete the course, students are required to have prior knowledge of such courses as “The modern Ukrainian language”, “Pedagogy”, “Psychology”, have a good command of Ukrainian for academic communication, know the structure of Ukrainian, as well as the genres of oral and written communication in it; have a good grounding in pedagogy, in particular, didactics; know the major aspects of age psychology.

Course description The course aims to develop prospective teachers’ instructional competence. It focuses on building students’ skills in using approaches, methods, and means of teaching Ukrainian; application of national and international expertise in teaching, assessment, and improvement of learners’ knowledge and skills; ability to tackle learning problems and get adapted to changes in education. The course is comprised of four modules which cover: the theoretical foundations of Ukrainian teaching methodology as a science, the tenets of teaching aspects of language and speech activities; practical applications of theory in developing teaching and assessment activities, as well as writing a course paper. The course ends with an exam.

Classroom activities and teaching techniques The course is taught within two terms combining such formats of instruction as lectures and practical sessions, and independent work. The major activities that engage students and provide evidence to assess their performance are practical assignments, an end-of-course test paper, and a course paper. For the performance in these activities in the second term, a student can score max. 60 and min. 36 points. A detailed description of activities and formative assessment is presented in the course curriculum posted on the official website of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology.

Assessment A student’s final grade is based on a 100-point grading system. The total score is made up of the scores earned for the performance during the term (max. 60, min. 36 points) and the scores earned in the summative assessment - exam. The formative assessment considers performance at practical sessions (21 points), a course paper (20 points), and an end-of-course test paper (19 points). The exam is administered in writing; the exam card contains four tasks aimed at assessing knowledge of theory and practical skills; the performance of each task is allotted max. 10 points. A detailed description of the assessment criteria of the coursework is shown in the course curriculum displayed on the website of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology.

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