Module for the Accelerated Initial Training of Primary Teachers: General Didactics
- The module defines general didactics by three concerns: planning instruction in the basic school, preparing a lesson, and teaching strategies and methods.
- It separates general didactics from pedagogy by its attention to the whole body of school content and to the nature of the knowledge being taught.
- Its four themes cover the basic school curriculum, the complementarity of disciplines, a new generation of programs, and annual planning of instruction.
- It proposes 24 to 25 hours of learning for pupils in the 1st and 2nd years of the basic school in its discussion of the weekly timetable.
This module is one of the accelerated initial training materials for primary school teachers prepared by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training under the Education for All project (2008-2014). Gédéon Luckner prepared it, and Paul Renel Cange and Françoise Cros revised it in 2014 for the CIEP and FONHEP. General didactics, as defined here, covers three things: planning instruction across the content of the basic school, preparing a teaching sequence (a lesson), and teaching strategies and methods supported by recent research.
The relationship between teacher and pupils and classroom conduct are left to the module on general pedagogy. The module is organized in four themes: an introduction to general didactics, the curricula of the Haitian basic school and how the disciplines complement each other, the need for a new generation of programs, and planning of instruction including the annual distribution of content.
How to cite
Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (MENFP), 2015, Module for the Accelerated Initial Training of Primary Teachers: General Didactics, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/menfp-fia-modules-didactique-generale
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- Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale et de la Formation Professionnelle (MENFP)