Friday 7 March 2008

A Pedagogic Focus


Recently, I've met up with many people in the post-16 teacher –training community (which strictly speaking, is 'andragogy' rather than 'pedagogy' I think!) , and had a particularly interesting time last Friday at the Pibwrlwyd campus of Coleg Sir Gar where I met up with their second year group. I recorded some of their comments - definitely woth listening to!
More pedagogy was to come at a JISC-run event in Birmingham last Tuesday, looking at the London Pedagogy Planner and Phoebe - another planning tool. Both planners could have effective roles in planning courses and sessions, but I thought that Phoebe would be more relevant to teaching practitioners, and especially teaching trainees, because it is incorporates a large amount of pedagogical guidance. Both planners are still in development, but existing versions are available for download, and the development teams involved (from IOE, London, and University of Oxford respectively) are happy to receive feedback.
[photo is of Victoria Square, as you can tell by the figure of her late Majesty!]

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