ISC 212 covers 19 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study
sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked
answers for each one.
In the second year, student-teachers will be turning their, attention towards the business of
The following topics form the basis of discussion (about 10 hours for each):-
0 THE TEACHER AS A MANAGER OF THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
1 Time and lesson planning;
2 Resources and pupil activities;
3 Pupils and grouping of pupils for different activities;
4 Space and efficiency of operation.
0 THE TEACHER AS AUTHORITY VERSUS THE TEACHER AS FACILITATOR
1 Traditional role of the teacher;
2 Problems associated with developing or changing subject content;
3 School as an encouraging or a restricting environment.
0 THE TEACHER AS AN ORGANISER OF LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
1 Finding out what children already think and know;
2 Presenting counter demonstrations and arguments, generating cognitive conflict;
3 Drawing arguments and evidence together;
4 Maximizing children's involvement in their own learning.
5 Using context to explain concepts.
6 Use of analogies (similes and metaphors)
A sample from this course
One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.
Objective;
In Science Education, an objective is a clear statement of the learning outcome a teacher expects from instruction. For examinations, you must master what an objective means, its main features, and how it guides teaching, learning activities, and assessment in a science lesson.
What you get for ISC 212
Every topic above, split into sessions and dated against your exam.
Practice questions per session, with answers that explain themselves.
Offline reading — the whole course is a few hundred KB on your phone.
An AI tutor that answers questions using this course's own material.