Pedagogy for education for sustainability
Pedagogy is the ‘how’ of teaching. Together with content knowledge, it forms the core of our body of professional knowledge.
This section looks at approaches that are known to work with diverse learners and how teachers can know that their teaching is working.
Teacher actions promoting student learning
Effective teachers use a range of approaches to support student learning.
The New Zealand Curriculum offers generic information about effective pedagogy and describes a process for 'teaching as inquiry'. This cyclical process provides a framework that can help teachers to plan strategically and respond to the effects of their teaching, i.e. to think about how you're teaching and whether it's working. For example, is your teaching teacher directed or student directed, is it whole class, group work or individual work, is it text centred, discussion based or resource based? Is it developing action competence in students?
How are you monitoring student engagement? How do you get feedback from your students? Do you informally conference with them? Do you conduct class surveys – online or paper based?
Assessment in EfS
Good assessment practice, including summative as well as diagnostic and formative assessment, is part of good teaching.
Last updated July 31, 2015
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