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EDU 2102: Teaching Methodology

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Mode of Delivery:

  • Online
  • Blended mode: mixed online and face-to -face
  • Face-to-Face


1. Rationale

Educationists all over the world have been struggling to develop methods that can optimize the attainment of teaching/learning objectives. Every teacher is faced with the responsibility for selecting and designing suitable learning experiences to provide optimal learning opportunities for the students. This module develops a student’s understanding of teaching issues such as the secondary school curriculum, the learner-centered paradigm, lesson planning, teaching strategies,
creating conducive learning environments, ways of measuring and evaluating teaching /learning effectiveness.

2. Prerequisite or knowledge

  • Philosophy of Education
  • General Psychology
  • Learning Psychology
  • Subject matter of the student’s elective teaching subjects i.e. Biology, Chemistry History, Mathematics, etc.
  • Classroom management


3. General objectives

At the end of this Unit you should be able to:

  • Formulate instructional objectives
  • Explain the meaning of teaching and learning
  • Describe various techniques and strategies for teaching
  • Describe the roles of the teachers and the learners in instruction
  • Prepare schemes of work and lesson plans
  • Teach in during a microteaching session.
  • Explain different methods of sustaining effective classroom organization
  • Demonstrate the use of various techniques for assessing and evaluating
  • learning


4. Time


The module will take 120 hours distributed as follows:

Unit 1: 25 hours
Unit 2: 25 hours
Unit 3: 40 hours
Unit 4: 30 hours

5. Materials

  • Recommended text books including web based materials.
  • Video recording of students teaching if available
  • Face to Face for micro-teaching with trainers
  • Virtual set ups for micro-teaching demonstrations or practical lessons for students who have chosen subjects that require practical.