Republic of the Philippines

Laguna State Polytechnic University

Province of Laguna

1. Definition ogf Pedagogy

According to Kapur 2020, pedagogy mainly concerned in teaching

process. It is the practice of teaching methods, teaching materials and

instructional strategies that would contribute in promoting student learning.

It is also the use of different practices in different student level that aims to

promote student learning.

2. Components of Pedagogy

The components of pedagogy are the curriculum, or the content of

what is being taught. Methodology, or the way in which teaching is done.

Techniques for socializing children in the repertoire of cognitive and

affective skills required for successful functioning in society that education

is designed to promote.

The curriculum, or the content of teaching, is designed to

encourage learning processes which are memory, attention, and

observation and the cognitive skills which are reasoning, comparing and

contrasting, classification, as well as the acquisition of specific information,

such as the names of the letters of the alphabet. (Wiggins and McTighe,

1998).

In addition, teaching strategies or methods used in implementing

the curriculum are the interactions of people and materials planned and

used by teachers. This include the teacher role, teaching styles, and

instructional techniques. (Siraj-Blatchford, 1998)

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Laguna State Polytechnic University
Province of Laguna

The third component of pedagogy, refers to the role that

teachers in early childhood settings play, through their expectations,

their teaching strategies, their curricular emphases, in promoting the

repetoire of cognitive and affective characteristics and skills that the

young child needs to move down the path from natal culture to

school culture to the culture of the larger society.