Course Details

Pedagogy for Engineers

Academic Year 2025/26

NZB011 course is part of 3 study plans

NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year

NPC-SIE Summer Semester 1st year

NPC-MI Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to pedagogy and pedagogy for engineers and its relation to specialised didactics. Connections with other sciences.
  • 2. Historical development changes of pedagogy. Overview of pedagogical discourses and personalities.
  • 3. Curriculum and its importance for pedagogy. Curriculum realisation in teaching praxis. Frame educational programme.
  • 4. Didactic principles, humanising tendencies. Teaching process and its rules. Selection and structuring of subject matter.
  • 5. Lesson typology and structure. Phases of teaching. Types of teaching. Didactical models.
  • 6. Teaching methods - summary and classification. Activating teaching methods. Assessing, importance, optimal choice of methods.
  • 7. Organisational forms of teaching. Summary and classification. Description of chosen forms. Didactic aids.
  • 8. Educational aims. Teacher's preparation for pedagogical activities. Education direction, school management.
  • 9. Pedagogical diagnostics, pedagogical evaluation. Right creation of didactic tests and evaluation of their parameters.
  • 10. Literature with didactic function. Educational texts, their analysis, creation and assessing, optimisation.
  • 11. Teacher's personality of specialised subjects. The theory of teaching profession. Professiogram of a teacher of specialised subjects.
  • 12. Anthropogenic factors of education. Traditional and alternative systems. Courses and personalities. Agreements and differences.
  • 13. Specifics and peculiarities of teaching process in specialised subjects. Idealisation of the state of education system.