Review Intro to Teaching Practicum

What is didactics?

• The art of teaching.

• The method to discover better ways to teach from an integral perspective.

• The constant reflection on teaching methods and practices which leads to further improvement through educative action.

• The knowledge related to teaching in specific areas embedded in the diverse theories, perspectives and concepts that concern the reflection, praxis and thought in the field of education.

What are the key elements of didactics?

• Theory and praxis.

• Reflection, contents and skills.

• The constant reflection about the relationshipsamong actors and knowledge that define teaching styles.

• The relatonships among educative actors, contents, learning, context,purposes and practice.

The materialization of an approach is:

• The lesson plan.

• The text book.

• The syllabus.

• The curriculum.

The difference between method and methodology is:

Methodologies are:

• The activities that teachers do in their lessons.

• The abstract ideas about language, education, learning, teaching and the contextual factors.

• The set of practices and principles coherently used in function of an approach.

• The politicalactions undertaken by Governments in order to promote language learning and teaching.

Methods are materialized in:

Techniques are:

Procedures are useful because

• They determine the structure of a lesson.

• They depend on a specific method to orientate language teaching.

• They organize each lesson coherently with a method and approach.

• They provideorder, cohesion, coherence and sequence to a language lesson.

What is the meaning of CALL?

The post-method implies

• A new gaze of education which goes beyond the total efectiveness of a single method.

• A reflection about the contexts, eficacity and feasibility of diverse methods in specific contexts.

• A constant dialogue between teachers and learners.

• The connection among diverse factors that concern the development of teaching and learning practices within a particular social, educative and economic context.