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2016　Introduction to the Teaching Profession A

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Academic unit or major
Teacher education courses
Instructor(s)
Matsuda Toshiki  Morishita Minoru 
Class Format
Lecture     
Media-enhanced courses
Day/Period(Room No.)
Wed9-10(W933)  
Group
-
Course number
LAT.A101
Credits
1
Academic year
2016
Offered quarter
1Q
Syllabus updated
2017/1/11
Lecture notes updated
2016/6/2
Language used
Japanese
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Course description and aims

The aims of “Introduction to the Teaching Profession (A & B)” are to help students consider a possibility to become teachers and determine to continue the teacher education program, and further understand the roles and responsibilities of schools and teachers, and the rights and career development system allowed for teachers in fulfilling their duties.
The main topics of “Introduction to the Teaching Profession A” are as follows. These are necessary for understanding the present state of Japanese teachers as professionals in the modern society.
- Teachers in the Japanese law system.
- Social demands to teachers and teachers’ consciousness reported in public statements and statistical data
- Historical changes and future perspectives about qualifications and abilities required of teachers
- Roles of the teacher education program in the formal teacher’s professional development system

Student learning outcomes

Students are required to achieve the following objectives:
1) To memorize important laws that define teaching professions and understand their essentials systematically.
2) To be able to explain appropriate/inappropriate acts as teachers in typical events which frequently take place at school and reasons for them based on the objective 1)
3) To memorize reliable information resources useful to understand social needs for schools and teachers, and adopt an attitude to consider changes required of themselves based on data collected periodically
4) To be able to explain objectives of the teacher education program based on the formal teacher’s professional development system

Keywords

Roles, Responsibilities, Rights, Required qualifications and abilities, Teacher’s professional development

Competencies that will be developed

✔ Specialist skills Intercultural skills Communication skills Critical thinking skills Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Students are required to perform lesson. Students are required to perform exercises to collect, understand, and summarize their own opinions based on important concepts and terms learned in class.

Course schedule/Required learning

  Course schedule Required learning
Class 1 Introduction and outlines of the courses (A & B) After each class, students are required to collect, understand, and summarize information about example problems based on knowledge learned in the class.
Class 2 Roles and responsibilities of schools and teachers (1) – Pedagogical view See above
Class 3 Roles and responsibilities of schools and teachers (2) – Schools in the formal education system (Schools in Japanese laws) See above
Class 4 Teacher’s professions and teacher’s license (1) - Teacher’s professions and activities/tasks in a school See above
Class 5 Historical changes of teacher’s roles See above
Class 6 Teacher’s professions and teacher’s license (3) - Recent issues of teachers as professionals See above
Class 7 Teacher promotion and license system (1) - Trends and present states of teacher license system See above
Class 8 Teacher promotion and license system (2) - Qualifications and abilities required to teachers, and teacher’s license renewal system See above

Textbook(s)

・Hiroshi Takahashi, Kenichi Kaneda (Eds.) Essentials of Modern Educational Systems (2nd edition), Gakubunsya, 2009 (In Japanese)

Reference books, course materials, etc.

・Materials and references useful for further studies will be published on the OCW system. (In Japanese)

Assessment criteria and methods

40 % of achievement score is assigned to evaluation of exercises of every classes and the end-term test
60 % of achievement score is assigned to evaluation of quality the final report posted on the OCW system

Related courses

  • nothing

Prerequisites (i.e., required knowledge, skills, courses, etc.)

・Only student who wants to take teacher’s license and may become teacher can attend the course.
・Students are required to attend the guidance meeting of the teacher promotion program held on first week of the every first quarter.

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