DIDÁCTICA GENERAL

EXPLORING PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE – CONCEPTS RELATED TO DIDACTICS

Work in groups of three. Read the following statements carefully and mark them as T (true) or F (false).
Be ready to share your thoughts and ideas with the whole class.

STATEMENT T/F
1. Didactics is more oriented towards the whole educational phenomenon T
2. Pedagogics (Pedagogy) will give more insight about how to educate rather than how to teach. T
3. Education deals more with the process of acquiring general knowledge as well as reasoning F
and judgement skills for oneself or others.
4. Didactics requires teachers to understand how students learn. T
5. Didactics has a deeper impact on how instruction is delivered in the class T
6. Pedagogics has a saying on curricula and teaching methodology T
7. Didactics has a crucial role in developing and sharing institutional Educational projects. T
8. Psycho-pedagogy deals with maximizing students’ learning potential through techniques as well T
as with detecting learning difficulties.
9. Learning standards establish what learners are capable of doing from a desired basic level on. T
10. Competences or competencies show what a learner is capable of doing in multiple dimensions T
such as: doing, being, knowing, learning.
11. Being cross-curricular is one common feature shared by both standards and competencies. F
12. The following statement is a standard: “I use available resources responsibly”. T
13. Performance indicators, roughly speaking, are observable signs, data in pieces of information T
that show how close or far the desired outcome is about to be obtained.