Universität Wien

490003 VO Didactics and Classroom Research (2025S)

2.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 49 - Lehrer*innenbildung

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Details

Language: German

Examination dates

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

***UPDATE 10.2.2025***
Der Termin am 14.3.2025 wird auf 15.3.2025 9:45-13:00 Uhr (HS 33) verschoben.

  • Friday 07.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4
  • Saturday 15.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal 33 Hauptgebäude, 1.Stock, Stiege 7
  • Friday 21.03. 09:45 - 13:00 Hörsaal D Unicampus Hof 10 Hirnforschungzentrum Spitalgasse 4

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Goals:
The orientation internship is intended to enable accompanied practical experience and to provide a structured introduction to school practice based on research in the professional field.
In this sense, the orientation internship and the accompanying courses pursue the following goals:
1. The students learn the basics of didactics and classroom research and are able to derive principles of successful teaching
2. Methods of class observation and class reflection will be worked with and discussed. The students can correctly use and justify these methods in small given exercises.
3. recent findings of learning research and the resulting consequences for the design of teaching, feedback processes and performance assessment will be presented. Students have dealt with these in depth and can explain and make use of them in smaller teaching sequences on a case-by-case basis.
4. mentors accompany the internships in cooperation with the course leaders of the proseminars.
Lecture and accompanying proseminar refer to a common text corpus. The obligatory basic literature as well as the contents of the lecture will be used as a basis for the examination of the lecture.

Contents:
1. Didactics
2. To understand learning : What do we know about successful learning processes
3. Learning to observe lessons - observing learning processes

For more information about the content, please visit Moodle.

methods:
Input, work in groups, practice of class observation with the help of video recordings of lessons.

The detailed VO program will be presented at the beginning of the semester and will be accessible via the Moodle learning platform.

Assessment and permitted materials

Type of performance assessment: Multiple Choice Test, MC and SC
Allowed aids: none.
20 questions: both Single Choice and Multiple Choice.
By successfully completing the learning paths provided on Moodle (3 learning paths), a total of 3 bonus points can be earned.
The calculation is based on partial points.
Enough: 50 - 64 percent
Satisfactory: 65 - 79 percent
Good: 80 - 90 percent
Very good: 91 - 100 percent

Please note the new regulations on the registration and deregistration of examinations and their legal consequences!
Information at:http://studentpoint.univie.ac.at/durchs-studium/pruefungswesen/modul-fach-und-lv-pruefungen/

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Miminum requirements and assessment standard
Students have acquired initial skills in observing lessons and are able to independently carry out and document smaller observation sequences as part of their internship. They can distinguish between describing and interpreting observed teaching sequences.
They have gained initial experience in planning lessons and can link and justify their planning concepts as well as short sequences they have taught themselves with findings from teaching and learning research. They have begun to develop a concept of their professional role as a teacher.

Examination topics

Examination material: Lecture and obligatory basic literature
Please note that the contents of the lecture as well as the compulsory literature are also contents of the accompanying proseminar.
You will find the examination material incl. the basic literature on Moodle.

Reading list

Verpflichtende Basisliteratur (im gleichnamigen Ordner als PDF zum Download) wird am Anfang der Vorlesung auf Moodle bekannt gegeben.

Association in the course directory

Last modified: Fr 14.02.2025 09:07